If it wasn’t for coffee, I’d have no discernible personality at all. ~ David Letterman

In The Bullpen (Chad Evans) Hezbollah Demanding Child Killer — “According to the Jerusalem Post, Hezbollah is refusing to negotiate over the release of two abducted IDF soldiers that started the latest Israel-Hezbollah war. Hezbollah’s demand instead is rather simple. Israel has to release Samir Kuntar.

Who is Samir Kuntar? He might be the next Hezbollah leader.”

Right Truth (Debbie) United Nations, going, going, gone? — “How can the worst of terrorist nations and the best of free nations all have the same say and equal footing in an organization like the United Nations, and accomplish anything worthwhile? They can’t. A group of like-minded countries working together against the countries left at the United Nations would be a wonderful idea.”

Captain’s Quarters (Ed Morrissey) Sistani Kills Federalism Plan — “In a move that belies earlier reports that Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani had withdrawn from Iraqi politics, the widely respected Shi’ite imam scotched a plan by Shi’ite political groups to transform Iraq into a loosely-knit federation of three autonomous states. The Shi’ite-controlled legislature will table the proposal indefinitely, and the third-ranking official in the government pronounced the plan dead:”

Outside The Beltway (James Joyner) Bill Clinton Meets Lefty Bloggers — “Liberals are angry at Clinton for enacting so little of their agenda, just as conservatives are angry at Bush. But politics is the art of the possible. Rantings of the critics aside, presidents are not dictators who can govern by fiat. There are plenty of perfectly legitimate reasons to criticize Clinton and Bush; that they were insufficiently ideological is not among them.”

Dr. Sanity (Pat Santy) WHO WOULD HAVE BELIEVED IT? — “Slowly and almost imperceptably, the liberal left has morphed into the lunatic left. They have abandoned most of the liberal legacy that gave them emotional consistency and moral clarity; and instead, they have embraced positions that would have been completely inconceivable to imagine just a few short years ago.”