GOP Plans Hearings on Issue of Immigrants  —  In a move that could bury President Bush's high-profile effort to overhaul immigration law until after the midterm elections, House GOP leaders yesterday announced a series of field hearings during the August recess, pushing off final negotiations on a bill until fall at the earliest.

GOP leaders: No immigration bill this year  —  WASHINGTON - In a defeat for President Bush, Republican congressional leaders said Tuesday that broad immigration legislation is all but doomed for the year, a victim of election-year concerns in the House and conservatives' implacable opposition …

Murder & Media Manipulation: Al-Qaeda's Strategy in Iraq  —  Since I first learned of the murder of the two U.S. soldiers whose booby-trapped bodies were recovered earlier today, I've ben trying to find words to express my outrage at this atrocity.  Simply put, it shows the barbarity of our adversary …

US troops kill Zarqawi's 'right-hand man'  —  The US military says it has killed the "right-hand man" of slain Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.  —  Major General William Caldwell says Iraqi Mansur Suleiman al-Mashhadani was killed on Friday by US forces in Yusifiyah, south of Baghdad.