Opinion

• The Silent Olympics HuffingtonPost.com - Thu Jul 24, 6:32 PM ET

  It is important for the world to know that quietly and out of sight of the mainstream media, ordinary people from all over China have engaged in citizen activism even after the suppression of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. Their grassroots efforts are building a society that is likely to look very different than the prevailing state-sponsored image of homogenous nationalism, choreographed with even greater care as the Olympics approach.

• TheNewKlan.Org The Nation - Thu Jul 24, 5:32 PM ET

  The Nation -- Oy. Last night Bill O'Reilly said: "It is not a stretch to say that MoveOn is the new Klan."

• Doing More With Less The Nation - Thu Jul 24, 3:00 PM ET

  The Nation -- One of my all-time favorite television shows is HBO's The Wire. So it's a little surreal to feel like I'm living in an episode. No, I'm not involved in the drug trade or police department. I'm not a stevedore losing my union job, and I'm not a school teacher struggling with No Child Left Behind. Like the reporters and police officers in the fifth and final season of the show, though, I feel like my work, and the work of many of my colleagues are not being adequately supported. In short, the youth vote community is being asked "to do more with less."

• Obama Under the Microscope in Israel RealClearPolitics.com - Tue Jul 22, 10:30 AM ET

  Tomorrow, Barack Obama will step off his plane into Israel and under a microscope. While he is there, American voters - Jews, Evangelical Christians and others - who factor a presidential candidate's policies toward Israel into their electoral choice, will watch Obama's every step and listen to his every word very, very closely.

• Hard to Be Humble RealClearPolitics.com - Tue Jul 22, 11:30 AM ET

  For a while now, one of the strongest narratives working against Barack Obama has been the notion that he is an elitist and too full of himself.

• RECESSION, YEAR 8 Ted Rall - Thu Jul 24, 7:58 PM ET

  Bickering Over Terminology Delays Real Action

• A MEASURE OF JUSTICE MAY COME AT LAST IN SERBIA Georgie Anne Geyer - Thu Jul 24, 7:58 PM ET

  BELGRADE, Serbia -- The arrest of the wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, charged in the worst massacre since World War II, was an unlikely yet radical transformation in a country that had appeared to be headed on a path toward virulent nationalism and isolation." -- The New York Times, July 23, 2008

• Washington's Overrated "Old Hands" Joe Conason - Thu Jul 24, 3:00 AM ET

  Creators Syndicate - Barack Obama knows which countries border Iraq; he understands the difference between Shia and Sunni; and he is probably aware that Czechoslovakia no longer exists — but as John McCain complains, the young senator has "no military experience whatsoever." Indeed, like both of the last two presidents, Sen. Obama possesses scant credentials in national security and foreign policy.

• A Campaign Driven by Fear Robert Scheer - Thu Jul 24, 3:00 AM ET

  Creators Syndicate - Barack Obama is betraying his promise of change and is in danger of becoming just another political hack.

• BUT WILL THEY RESPECT HIM IN THE MORNING? Ann Coulter - Wed Jul 23, 7:58 PM ET

  Back before the Republican Party was saddled with John McCain as its nominee, The New York Times called him "the only Republican who promises to end the George Bush style of governing from and on behalf of a small, angry fringe." The paper praised him for "working across the aisle to develop sound bipartisan legislation" and predicted that he would appeal to "a broader range of Americans than the rest of the Republican field."

• The Future of Iraq The Weekly Standard - Wed Jul 23, 12:58 PM ET

  Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 013, Issue 43 - 7/28/2008 - BaghdadI have made four trips to Iraq since May 2007.

• Editorial Roundup AP - Wed Jul 23, 10:33 AM ET

  Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:

• McCain Vs. "DESTINY" Brent Bozell III - Wed Jul 23, 3:00 AM ET

  Creators Syndicate - John McCain has figured out that one way to build enthusiasm among conservatives is to confront his former best friends in the liberal media. As the media glorify Barack Obama the "statesman" on his trip abroad, with the three network anchors lining up for interviews like a gaggle of smitten fan-club presidents, the McCain campaign suddenly acquired a surprising "Annoy The Media" flavor.

• Children in the Middle Susan Estrich - Wed Jul 23, 3:00 AM ET

  Creators Syndicate - Good news. Britney and K-Fed have a settlement! Their lawyers were back in court — again — last week to tell the judge in the long-running battle over custody of their two sons that they had agreed that K-Fed would retain custody, Britney would get more visitation, and she would also pay more.

• OBAMA FAKING IT Maggie Gallagher - Tue Jul 22, 7:58 PM ET

  Obama has a problem: What do you do when you're a lightly accomplished one-term senator, a former state legislator from Illinois, a Harvard law graduate who has no substantive record of accomplishments, and you are running against a war hero whom polls show that Americans overwhelmingly view as far more fit to be commander in chief?

• HOSANNA FOR POLAND'S UNSUNG HERO Georgie Anne Geyer - Tue Jul 22, 6:23 PM ET

  WASHINGTON -- When Bronislaw Geremek was tragically killed in a car crash in Poland in mid-July, most Americans did not recognize his name. Geremek, who? Bronislaw, what? Oh yes, we do know where Poland is -- more or less.

• Where the Ducks Are Pat Buchanan - Tue Jul 22, 3:00 AM ET

  Creators Syndicate - "You go hunting where the ducks are," said Barry Goldwater.

• 'Stunningly Shameful' The Weekly Standard - Mon Jul 21, 10:01 AM ET

  Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 013, Issue 43 - 7/28/2008 - On January 23, 2008, during her keynote speech at the glitzy World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Condoleezza Rice made a surprisingly friendly gesture to the Iranian regime. She said, in this final year of the Bush administration, Iran and the United States could move towards a "new, more normal relationship."

• Over to You, Speaker Pelosi The Weekly Standard - Mon Jul 21, 9:44 AM ET

  Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 013, Issue 43 - 7/28/2008 - Gas is still at $4 a gallon, but the good news is there's an emerging consensus on a measure that would help:

• John McCain and "the Creeps" HuffingtonPost.com - Thu Jul 24, 3:36 PM ET

  Sometimes nothing does it for me as much as the slang of my youth. As one who was a boy in the nineteen forties, I can recall that someone who was unctuous, untruthful, and distasteful could be described as a creep, or giving one "the creeps." My late, beautiful, older sister once dismissed the heir to one of America's wealthiest families who wanted to marry her by explaining to my dumbfounded parents that he gave her the creeps. In classical English literature Dickens' Uriah Heep was the embodiment of the creeps. William Faulkner's majestic contribution to creepiness in America was his Snopes family, and in recent years W cornered the market in political creepiness. But now Uriah, the Snopes, and W must move over; John McCain has overtaken every competitor in the creeps department. He gives the creeps in that special skin crawling way that is now found only in teen age fright movies.

Most Popular Opinion

• Our view on Iraq: Why can't Obama admit the obvious? The surge worked USATODAY.com - Thu Jul 24, 12:22 AM ET

  In January 2007, America's adventure in Iraq seemed like a chaotic failure. The country was riven with sectarian violence, and al-Qaeda in Iraq had gained a foothold in western Anbar province. Attacks on U.S. troops were running well over 1,000 a week, and Iraqi civilians were dying at a rate of more than 3,000 a month.

• OBAMA FAKING IT Maggie Gallagher - Tue Jul 22, 7:58 PM ET

  Obama has a problem: What do you do when you're a lightly accomplished one-term senator, a former state legislator from Illinois, a Harvard law graduate who has no substantive record of accomplishments, and you are running against a war hero whom polls show that Americans overwhelmingly view as far more fit to be commander in chief?

• BUT WILL THEY RESPECT HIM IN THE MORNING? Ann Coulter - Wed Jul 23, 7:58 PM ET

  Back before the Republican Party was saddled with John McCain as its nominee, The New York Times called him "the only Republican who promises to end the George Bush style of governing from and on behalf of a small, angry fringe." The paper praised him for "working across the aisle to develop sound bipartisan legislation" and predicted that he would appeal to "a broader range of Americans than the rest of the Republican field."