INTERNATIONAL NEWS:

Female U.S. Casualties More Common in Iraq War
(CNSNews.com) - More American servicewomen have been killed serving in Iraq than were killed serving in either Operation Desert Storm or in the Vietnam War, according to a Cybercast News Service database. So far, 97 American women, including seven single mothers, have died in Operation Iraqi Freedom. It should be a major source of concern for policymakers on Capitol Hill, one analyst said...

Terrorist Rams Cars, Bus in Jerusalem Attack
Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - An Arab resident of eastern Jerusalem plowed a front-end loader head-on into traffic, crushing a number of vehicles and overturning a city bus on Wednesday. At least three people were killed in the minutes-long rampage left a trail of damage extending a quarter of a mile...

McCain: ‘I’m the Underdog’ Who Needs Small Town America
Pipersville, Pa. (CNSNews.com) - In a speech in this small town on Monday, Sen. John McCain three times referred to himself as the underdog in the presidential race...

Court Throws Out ‘Public Nuisance’ Case Against Paint Manufacturers
(CNSNews.com) - Paint manufacturers and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are cheering the R.I. Supreme Court for unanimously throwing out a public nuisance case brought against the former makers of lead paint...

Pro-Lifers Praise Ruling Allowing Statement on Abortion
(CNSNews.com) - South Dakota may enforce a law that requires doctors to provide pregnant women with a written statement saying, “the abortion will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being,” a federal appeals court ruled last Friday...

Church Attendance Beneficial to Marriage, Researcher Says
(CNSNews.com) - Married couples who attend church together tend to be happier than couples who rarely or never attend services, according to sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox of the University of Virginia...

China Slams US Lawmakers for Olympics Criticism
(CNSNews.com) – China’s foreign ministry slammed two visiting Republican lawmakers who want U.S. leaders to stay away from the Olympic games...

Liberal Group Gives Obama’s Faith-Based Initiative Thumbs Down
(CNSNews.com) – Sen. Barack Obama is courting evangelicals with his support for an expansion of President Bush’s “faith-based” programs, but a liberal religious watchdog group called the move “disappointing.”

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Western Govs Hope to Sway Future Energy Policy

Groups Seek Oil Drilling Ban Near Sage Grouse Habitat

‘Israeli Public Ready for Painful Concessions,’ Defense Minister Says


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COMMENTARY:

Why America Is The Greatest Country On Earth
By: Ben Shapiro


I was sitting at lunch with a colleague a few weeks back, and he mentioned that he did not understand the general media hubbub over Michelle Obama’s unpatriotic statements. The typical liberal talking point states that patriotism is jingoism because America’s founding principles are so much claptrap -- that modern values trump those old-fashioned ideas. But that should be an automatic disqualifier for political victory in this country...

Real Independence Means Secure Borders
By: Alan Caruba


As we celebrate our nation’s independence, it is worth keeping in mind that real independence depends on having secure borders. A nation that cannot or will not protect itself from a massive and intentional invasion for the purpose of changing its population and politics is a nation that will not exist very long...

The Troop Surge Was a Success
By: Terence P. Jeffrey


Page 12 of a Government Accountability Office report published on June 23 features data about the war in Iraq -- drawn from the Defense Intelligence Agency -- that must be central to the debate about what the United States does next in that country. It indicates we have started to win a war we cannot afford to lose. So, the question now is, which strategic decision by our own politicians is more likely to bring victory? Should we continue the strategy that delivered the security and political progress of the past year? Or should we abandon it and begin withdrawing from the country?

Interview with a Hollywood Patriot
By: Michelle Malkin


Let us not, on this Independence Day weekend, dwell on the political pretenders to patriotism rushing to out-proclaim their love of country. Nor let us pay heed to the sneering movie directors and journalism pooh-bahs allergic to red, white and blue. Instead, I’d like to share a bit of a special interview with a true Hollywood freedom-lover.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:

Hillary Clinton Not As Extreme as Barack Obama