Rulings against the president like these are catnip to congressional investigators. Their claws will be out to play with a weakened presidential mouse.

Congressional committees used to have to build a substantial case of presidential involvement in wrongdoing before they could get much leverage on the White House. With Ken Starr's legacy, congressional committees will have a strong club with which to beat the president.

Our Defense Department has continued to pay, through pliant contractors, for a flock of Iraqi political exiles as our paid political agents in Iraq.

He made it appear that the re-election of this person was particularly helpful for the nation's anti-cancer effort.

There are many parallels. In the United States, we recently had two different Supreme Court rulings concerning the posting of the Ten Commandments, ... The connections may not be as obvious as religious dimensions playing out in the drafting of the constitution in Iraq, but we can see many examples of difficulties in trying to draw the lines that separate religion and politics.

The publicity in Mexico helped investigators locate Longo at a beach camp in Tulum.