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Gen. Douglas MacArthur was born today in 1880.

NY Times
Insurgents Vowing to Kill Iraqis Who Brave the Polls on Sunday
Guerrilla groups in Iraq are trying to intimidate Iraqi citizens and scare them away from the polls with threats of death.

Chill, blogophiles; you're not the first to do what you're doing
Thomas Paine was basically a blogger — in 1776.
by Kevin Maney

Iraqis Eager To Vote

W. Post
Writer Backing Bush Plan Had Gotten Federal Contract
By Howard Kurtz

A Question of Disclosure
by Maggie Gallagher

ET TU, MAGGIE?
by Andrew Sullivan

Slate
As Green as a Neocon
Why Iraq hawks are driving Priuses.By Robert Bryce

Bipolar Disorder
A funny thing happened to many of the scholars who went out into the country to investigate the red-blue divide. They couldn't find it
by Jonathan Rauch

Missed Opportunities In Iraq
by Madeleine Albright

Chalabi's Return & Other Good News From Iraq
by Christopher Hitchens

Iraq Pessimists' Real Fears
by John Podhoretz

Newsweek
Sharansky's Inspires Bush's Foreign Policy Vision

Bush's War on Poverty
Ending tyranny is the best way to spread wealth.
by Claudia Rosett

WSJ Editorial
A New Iraq
Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds all have a stake in liberty.

W. Post
Coaching Iraq's Candidates
U.S.-funded programs are discreetly training new politicians, voting process.

Reality Check for the Neo-Wilsonians
by David Ignatius

W. Times
Bush reaches out to blacks
President Bush plans to meet with black legislators today after meeting with black clergy yesterday, although liberal civil rights leaders such as the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Julian Bond were not invited.

Big Media's 40 Days and 40 Nights
Like Noah's flood, the blogosphere is changing everything about the flow of news and information.
by Hugh Hewitt

Turn the Beat Around
Can Democrats be pro-life?
by Doug Bandow

The Human Life Review
Democrats for Life
Part I of this series outlines key problems faced by Democrats for Life of America: a Democratic Party platform that strongly supports abortion; a flock of Democratic presidential candidates who do the same; and powerful groups, such as Emily’s List, committed to the protection of legal abortion.
Part II concludes the series by describing how pro-life Democrats challenge their party’s support of abortion. It considers practical advice, from members of Congress and others, about what else should be done.

As a Matter of FactCheck.org
The truth about Social Security even eludes the supposed truth-seekers.
by Donald Luskin

Look out, Hillary's morphing into Bill
by Ben Shapiro
If you’ve listened to Hillary Clinton lately, you could be forgiven for thinking you were hearing her husband Bill.

A heartless homeland security screw-up
by Michelle Malkin
Do you remember when immigration officials sent out flight school visa approval notices for two of the 9/11 hijackers -- six months after they had committed their suicide attacks on America?

Iraqi ballots and bombs
by Tony Blankley
It's a little odd that the most vehement support for President Bush's proposition that democracy is the best cure for terrorism came from the curling lips of Mr. Abu Musab Zarqawi.

Don't take the president's word for it - take Zarqawi's
by Jonah Goldberg
Before the cackles could reach their crescendo, the naysayers hit an inconvenient snag.

Election news from Iraq
by Jay Bryant
The Western media in pre-election Iraq, Peter Jennings for example, are doing all they can to aid and abet Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's call for the Iraqi people to stay away from the polls on Sunday.

Wired.com
Improvised Bombs Baffle Army
IEDs -- improvised explosive devices -- are taking a big toll in Iraq, and the Pentagon is struggling to find methods to counteract them.

Wired Magazine
The Firefox Explosion
It's fast, secure, open source - and super popular. The hot new browser called Firefox is rocking the software world. (Watch your back, Bill Gates.)

Battle at Baylor: Will the atmosphere change?
Baylor again