AM Roundup

• Independence Day Should Reinstill Hope for America - Detroit News
• Two Truths Should Be Self-Evident - Victor Davis Hanson, National Review
• Safeguarding Liberty and Justice - Scot Lehigh, Boston Globe
• Lt. Burks and the Price of Freedom - Ralph Peters, New York Post
• Freedom: First Step In Pursuit of Happiness - Steve Chapman, Chicago Trib
• Changing Iraq Dynamics Pose Challenge for Obama - Cooper & Zeleny, IHT
• Obama the Cynic, Part II - Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
• Karl Rove's Third Term - Paul Krugman, New York Times
• The Politics of Can't-Possibly-Do - Daniel Henninger, Wall Street Journal
• Crossing the Great Divide - Ronald Brownstein, National Journal
• Bad Time to Question McCain's Qualifications - Steve Huntley, Chicago S-T
• What McCain Didn't Learn in Vietnam - Joe Conason, Salon
• Does Military Service Matter? - Margaret Talev, McClatchy
• The Fed Fiddles While Financial System Smolders - Steve Forbes, Forbes
• Backstory on a Bad North Korea Deal - James Rosen, National Review
• The Founding Mudslingers - Edward Larson, Washington Post
• A Day at the Beach - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal

• The First Declaration of Independence - George Will, Washington Post
• Waterboarded Firsthand: It's Torture - Christopher Hitchens, Vanity Fair
• Can Barack Buy the Presidency? - Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal
• The Obama Flip-Flop Fallacy - Jonathan Chait, New Republic
• The Politics of Foreclosure - Froma Harrop, Providence Journal
• Where is McCain on Energy? - Lawrence Kudlow, RealClearPolitics
• Missing the Mark on Obama's Vulnerability - Steven Stark, Boston Phoenix
• Unlike Any Politician, Black or White - Thomas Schaller, Baltimore Sun
• Obama, Don't Pop the Cork Yet - Reed Galen, RealClearPolitics
• How Will the Supreme Court Look? - Carl Leubsdorf, Dallas Morning News
• '60s Begin to Fade as Liberal Professors Retire - Patricia Cohen, NY Times
• The Slog Our Veterans Face - Marie Cocco, Indianapolis Star
• Why We Went to War in Iraq - Douglas Feith, Wall Street Journal
• Considering 'Death With Dignity' - Booth Gardner, Seattle Times
• Choosing the Children We Want to Live - Kenneth Blackwell, New York Sun
• Consuming the 2008 Campaign, Enjoy It - Dick Meyer, NPR
• Rush Limbaugh is Just Getting Warmed Up - Zev Chafets, NY Times Mag

• Does America Need a Wartime President? - Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek
• Bush Can Take Pride in Scorn - Mark Davis, Dallas Morning News
• A Ray of Hope in Baghdad - Trudy Rubin, Philadelphia Inquirer
• Spy Games in Iran - David Ignatius, Washington Post
• The Zero at Ground Zero - Steven Malanga, RealClearMarkets
• McCain Game Plan Worries Insiders - David Paul Kuhn, The Politico
• Courage Under Fire - Kathleen Parker, Chicago Tribune
• Debating Obama's 'Move' to the Middle - Ed Kilgore, RealClearPolitics
• The Boldness of Obama's Chicago Campaign - Jay Cost, HorseRaceBlog
• Plugging the Patriotism Gap - Dick Morris, New York Post
• Obama Win Would Help Brand America - Frederick Kempe, Bloomberg
• Why More Jews Won't Vote Dem This Year - Jennifer Rubin, Jerusalem Post
• What Latinos Want from President - Alberto Gonzales, Los Angeles Times
• The Return of Thomas Malthus - Robert Kaplan, The Atlantic
• Dire Economic News from My Colleagues - John Stossel, RealClearPolitics
• Three Cheers for July Second - Andrew Trees, Washington Post
• Patriotism is Fair Game - Vincent Carroll, Rocky Mountain News

• Do the Math: Obama Won't Win the South - Thomas Schaller, NY Times
• Americans Worry McCain Too Similar to Bush - Jeffrey Jones, Gallup
• Obama's Real Patriotism Problem - Jonah Goldberg, USA Today
• Moving to the Middle Is For Losers, Barack - Arianna Huffington, Huff Post
• John McCain's JFK Opportunity - William McGurn, Wall Street Journal
• How Obama Can Avoid the Carter Trap - Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
• Obama Faces Netroots Revolt Over FISA - Ari Melber, The Nation
• The High Court's Supreme Clown - Rich Lowry, New York Post
• Court Will Be Last Bastion of Conservatives - E. J. Dionne, Washington Post
• Rights, Arms and the Man - Debra Saunders, San Francisco Chronicle
• Gun Rights and Responsibilities - Marie Cocco, Indianapolis Star
• Al-Qaeda's Plan B - Amir Taheri, New York Post
• What Bush Hath Wrought - Andrew Bacevich, Boston Globe
• Israel Deal Will Embolden Extremists - Benny Morris, Los Angeles Times
• Let's Shoot the Oil Speculators! - Robert Samuelson, Newsweek
• Hillaryland at War - Gail Sheehy, Vanity Fair
• Does Patriotism Matter? - Thomas Sowell, RealClearPolitics

• Will Obama Deliver Progressive Agenda? - Paul Krugman, New York Times
• Gun Ruling Lets Obama Off the Hook - Robert Novak, Chicago Sun-Times
• Obama's Iraq Problem - George Packer, The New Yorker
• McCain's Universalism vs. Obama's Particularism - Gregory Scoblete, RCP
• Democrats, Not Just Obama, Are Weak with Whites - Peter Brown, WSJ
• McCain Talks the Party Line - Michael Tomasky, The Guardian
• Some on Left Target McCain's War Record - Ben Smith, The Politico
• Dreams From Obama's Grandmother - Victor Davis Hanson, NRO
• Attacks on Michelle Obama Won't Work - Ed Kilgore, The New Republic
• Is Carly Fiorina McCain's VP Answer? - Stuart Rothenberg, Roll Call
• Obama Works to Close Faith Gap - Reid Wilson, RealClearPolitics
• William F. Buckley and Civil Rights - William Voegeli, Claremont Review
• How Darwin and Lincoln Shaped Us - Malcolm Jones, Newsweek
• A Dangerous Moment for U.S. Economy - Larry Summers, Financial Times
• The Tragic End of Bush's North Korea Policy - John Bolton, Wall St. Journal
• A World Without Nuclear Weapons - Carla Robbins, New York Times
• Steyn Case Out; Show Trials Must Stop - David Warren, Ottawa Citizen

• How Gun Control Lost - Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune
• Guns for Safety? Dream On, Scalia - Arthur Kellermann, Washington Post
• In Complicated Term, Kennedy Left Bold Mark - Linda Greenhouse, NYT
• A Silver Bullet for Obama? - Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe
• No Time for Obama to Play It Safe - Carol Marin, Chicago Sun-Times
• He Must Build a Bridge to the Center - Bob Kerrey, New York Daily News
• It's Obama's to Win -- Or Lose - Salena Zito, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
• 'It's Over, Lady!' - Maureen Dowd, New York Times
• Closing McCain's Enthusiasm Gap - Stephen Hayes, Weekly Standard
• Rich Go Democrat: A New Political Geography - Alec MacGillis, Wash Post
• Obama Nor McCain Can Cure the Economy - Daniel Gross, Slate
• Why Toppling Mugabe May Be Only Option - Martin Ivens, London Times
• Preparing the Iran Battlefield - Seymour Hersh, The New Yorker
• Russia in a New World Order - Jim Hoagland, Washington Post
• More From Dodd Than 'Trust Me' - Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant
• Drug Wars Next Door - Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune
• Childless Europe - Russell Shorto, New York Times Magazine

• New Campaign for Democrats: Unity - Murray and Balz, Washington Post
• Emulating the Man From Hope - Toby Harnden, RealClearPolitics
• McCain's Challenge on Security - Jennifer Rubin, New York Observer
• How Obama Can Lose - Paul West, Baltimore Sun
• Dobson vs Obama - Peter Wehner, Washington Post
• The Dems' Appearance of Unity - David Von Drehle, Time
• How Democrats Can Unite - Sheri Rivlin & Allan Rivlin, RealClearPolitics
• Why Vice Presidents Matter Now - Michael Barone, US News & WR
• Conservatives Warm to McCain's Philosophy - Ben Adler, The Politico
• Economy Helping Obama With Male Voters - Bill Schneider, Nat'l Journal
• Dodd Leaves Fed Chairs Empty - Robert Novak, Chicago Sun-Times
• Could Bob Barr Have an Impact? - Julie Bosman, New York Times
• Drug Development Needs Private Industry - Ben Zycher, Wall St. Journal
• No Green Pastures After Bush - Chris Patten, The Australian
• On Energy, McCain Sounds a Lot Like Cheney - Joe Conason, Salon
• How to Kill Cap-and-Trade - Robert Tracinski, RealClearPolitics
• Mugabe Isn't the Real Problem - Matthew Parris, Times of London

• The Constitution Means What It Says - Randy Barnett, Wall Street Journal
• Originalism Goes Out the Window - E. J. Dionne, Washington Post
• Obama: Change Agent Goes Conventional - Kenneth Vogel, The Politico
• McCain's Day of Repudiation - George Will, New York Post
• DC v. Heller: Supreme Court Does Its Job - Ronald Cass, RealClearPolitics
• This Recession Is Just Starting - Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post
• Why Congress Believes in Oil 'Speculation' - Paul Krugman, NY Times
• Where's Bernanke's Inner Volcker? - Larry Kudlow, RealClearPolitics
• The State of Patriotism - Peter Beinart, Time
• The Ever-Malleable Mr. Obama - Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
• John McCain's Love of Lobbyists - Ari Berman, The Nation
• Grand New Party - Heather Wilhelm, RealClearPolitics
• Why Iraq Was Inevitable - Arthur Herman, Commentary
• Afghanistan is Getting Worse Not Better - Aryn Baker, Time
• We're Winning the War on Terror - Gerard Baker, Times of London
• Who's Planning Our Next War? - Pat Buchanan, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
• Our Leaders Are Not War Criminals - Stuart Taylor, National Journal

• Obamacons On the Rise? - Robert Novak, Chicago Sun-Times
• For Obama, Wooing Hillary is Easy Part - Margaret Carlson, Bloomberg
• It's All About Obama - Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal
• Does Obama Really Have a Big Lead? - Howard Fineman, Newsweek
• Obama's 50 State Strategy - Kyle Trygstad, RealClearPolitics
• Why TV Ads Are a Waste of Money - Steven Stark, Boston Phoenix
• Building A Wall Against Talent - George Will, Washington Post
• The Threat & Fear Are Real. The Rhetoric Isn't - Marie Cocco, Indy Star
• In Defense of George W. Bush - Philip Klein, The American Spectator
• Why Is Moscow Risking a New Cold War? - Christian Neef, Der Spiegel
• Obama is First Post-Cold War Candidate - Greg Sheridan, The Australian
• Time to Make Candidates Answer on Iraq - James Rainey, LA Times
• Iran's Troubling Opposition - Amir Taheri, Wall Street Journal
• 7 Ways to Rid the World of Mugabe - Timothy Garton Ash, The Guardian
• Diplomacy Is Working on North Korea - Condoleezza Rice, Wall St. Journal
• King of the West Bank - Donald Macintyre, The Independent
• The Can't Do Society - Victor Davis Hanson, RealClearPolitics

• Obama's Delicate Balancing Act - Jay Newton-Small, Time
• What Happened to Maverick McCain? - Jason Horowitz, New York Observer
• Mr. Cool vs. Old Reliable - Jim Geraghty, National Review Online
• The Debate McCain Must Force - Dick Morris, The Hill
• Not Even Close: Obama Should Pick Clinton - Bob Beckel, RealClearPolitics
• America's Next Chapter - Gary Hart, New York Times
• Obama's Social Security Fine Print - Donald Luskin, Wall Street Journal
• Does McCain Understand Markets? - John Stossel, RealClearPolitcs
• I'm for McCain, but Not the GOP - Ralph Peters, USA Today
• How to Put the Heat on Mugabe - Paul Wolfowitz, Wall Street Journal
• Finally Taking Ownership of Iraq - Thomas Friedman, New York Times
• Was Iraq Worth It? - Tony Blankley, Washington Times
• A Surprise From Syria And Israel - David Ignatius, Washington Post
• The Kelo Decision, Three Years Later - Steven Malanga, RealClearMarkets
• The Return of Inflation - Robert Samuelson, Newsweek
• Seeing the World Economy Through 2 Crises - Martin Wolf, Financial Times
• In Cyberspace, China's People Find Their Voice - Ian Bremmer, RCP

• What Obama Means for Business - Nina Easton, Fortune
• Can He Repeat His '04 Convention Brilliance? - Sam Anderson, NY Mag
• 10 Concerns About Barack Obama - William Bennett, National Review
• McCain Straight Talk Needs Sizzle - Debra Saunders, San Fran Chronicle
• Are Senate Races Moving in One Direction? - Stuart Rothenberg, Roll Call
• Obama Brings Race Into the Sunlight - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
• The Bush Paradox - David Brooks, New York Times
• Gitmo Trial Looms in Election Homestretch - Avi Zenilman, The Politico
• Dems Fall 'Victim' to Countrywide Financial - Rich Lowry, New York Post
• An Election of Likability and Character - Richard Cohen, Washington Post
• Why Should We Imitate Europe? - Thomas Sowell, RealClearPolitics
• Big Oil Isn't the Big Problem - Jacob Heilbrunn, Los Angeles Times
• Battle Wounds You Can't See - Bob Herbert, New York Times
• The Bush Doctrine Is Relevant Again - Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal
• Krugman, Protestors Wrong on US Beef - Froma Harrop, Providence Journal
• Microsoft After Gates (And Bill After Microsoft) - Steven Levy, Newsweek
• Paths Out of Zimbabwe's Dead End - Gideon Rachman, Financial Times

• Anti-Americanism Is Mostly Hype - Fouad Ajami, Wall Street Journal
• Obama Plans a Reintroduction - Dan Balz & Anne Kornblut, Washington Post
• Lieberman's Costly Support for McCain - Jay Newton-Small, Time
• The Problem with MoveOn's New Ad - William Kristol, New York Times
• The Change Obama Advocates - Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker
• Is the Democrats' Message Flawed? - Peter Brown, Wall Street Journal
• Why Clinton Voters Will Come Back to the Fold - Walter Shapiro, Salon
• Who is Cindy McCain? - Holly Bailey, Newsweek
• Reform Plan is Chance for McCain - Robert Novak, Chicago Sun-Times
• Globalization Becomes a Scapegoat - Rosemary Righter, Times of London
• Obama, McCain Take the Low Road on Taxes, Trade - Al Hunt, Bloomberg
• Hot Air Clouds the Energy Debate - Clive Crook, Financial Times
• Democratic Energy Policies Ignore Reality - Fred Barnes, Weekly Standard
• Resetting Earth's Thermostat - Samuel Thernstrom, Los Angeles Times
• 'Mugabe's Campaigning Goes on After Dark' - Ben Freeth, Times of London
• How Many People Should Own Homes? - Paul Krugman, New York Times
• The Case for Libertarian Paternalism - George Will, Newsweek

• What Obama Should Say on Iraq - Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek
• Obama's Childish Foreign Policy - William Kristol, Weekly Standard
• Obama Misses Chances To Change Our Elections - David Broder, Wash Post
• 2008 Will Turn On The Float Vote - Frank Luntz, Los Angeles Times
• An Idealist Who Wants to Win - Dick Polman, Philadelphia Inquirer
• Obama, McCain Up to Old Tricks - Michael Goodwin, New York Daily News
• A Chance for A New Liberal Agenda - Michael Kazin and Julian Zelizer, WP
• Picking a Vice President - Mark Leibovich, New York Times
• Is Webb Obama's Answer to McCain? - James Oliphant, Chicago Tribune
• Dodd Must Clear Air Over Countrywide - Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant
• History's Verdict on President Bush - Andrew Roberts, Sunday Telegraph
• Gay Marriage is Good For America - Jonathan Rauch, Wall Street Journal
• More Prisoners, Less Crime - George Will, Houston Chronicle
• Now That We've 'Won,' Let's Come Home - Frank Rich, New York Times
• Stop Killing the Taliban - Simon Jenkins, Sunday Times
• Force Feeding Food Facts - Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune
• Fighting Google's Influence - Drake Bennett, Boston Globe

• Searching for the Next Vice President - Marc Ambinder, National Journal
• Facts Better for GOP in '08 than '06 - Michael Barone, US News & WR
• The Flip-Flop Brothers: Who Will Suffer? - John Dickerson, Slate
• Obama's Class A Flip-Flop Won't Hurt Him - Jonathan Freedland, Guardian
• How to Hit Obama - Robert Novak, Chicago Sun-Times
• McCain Closes the Cash Gap - Jeanne Cummings, The Politico
• Can McCain Save the GOP Brand? - Eleanor Clift, Newsweek
• A Family-Friendly Idea for McCain - Ramesh Ponnuru, Weekly Standard
• Obama Should Keep Gates at Defense - Joe Klein, Time
• Why Did Obama Rattle the Jerusalem Issue? - Frida Ghitis, Miami Herald
• Where are Michelle's Feminist Defenders? - Mary Curtis, Washington Post
• Bush and the Justices Behaved Badly - Stuart Taylor, National Journal
• How to Complicate Habeas Corpus - Richard Epstein, New York Times
• We'll Rue Having Judges on the Battlefield - Andrew McBride, WSJ
• The Trade Debate We Need - Robert Kuttner, American Prospect
• Awaiting Japan's Global Vision - Richard Samuels, Boston Globe
• Bush Can Still Move on Zimbabwe - Bellamy & Morrison, Washington Post

• The Two Obamas - David Brooks, New York Times
• After Shift, Obama Poised For Huge Cash Edge - Rick Klein, ABC News
• McCain's Oil Epiphany - Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
• Drilling: A Cynical Political Calculation - Paul Krugman, New York Times
• The Problem with Obama's New Politics - Mona Charen, National Review
• Why 9/11 Won't Defeat Obama - Jonathan Chait, The New Republic
• Social Security is Not a Welfare Program - Larry Lindsey, Wall St. Journal
• The Party of Lincoln Was Left Behind on Civil Rights - John Avlon, RCP
• McCain is No Maverick - Eric Alterman & George Zornick, The Nation
• Obama Should Swap Chicago for Phoenix - Tristram Hunt, Times of London
• All Eyes on New Hampshire -- Again - E. J. Dionne, Seattle Times
• Will There Be Coattails in November? - Reid Wilson, RealClearPolitics
• The Global Warming Bubble - Rich Lowry, New York Post
• Saving the Planet is Difficult but Possible - Philip Stephens, Financial Times
• The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty is Obsolete - Rep. Jane Harman, WSJ
• The American Public is Pro-Israel - Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs
• What Gender Theorists Can't Explain - Kathleen Parker, RealClearPolitics