U.S. News and World Report is carrying a piece that offers a small life preserver to Republicans caught in the flood. Also opines that the NSA decision will hurt Democrats big time. It will if they are stupid enough to tout what looks to liberal and conservative alike as a poorly reasoned decision that will be reversed on appeal. In another piece it suggested that Iran will eventually prove the loser in the Hizbollah war:

Inevitably, the trouble they have stirred up in the region over the past month is bound to boomerang right back at them.

Indeed, by transferring advanced rockets and weaponry to Hezbollah, Tehran, and Damascus they have just unwittingly proven one of the Bush administration's central contentions regarding the need for pre-emptive action against rogue states in the global war on terror.

The two countries have demonstrated that they are ready and willing to share missile systems with a terrorist organization, thus strengthening the case that they must be prevented from obtaining weapons of mass destruction at all costs.

Let's all hope this is correct. At the bottom of the piece showing the effects of multi-culturalism on Brit society

It is clear, therefore, that the multiculturalism beloved of our political and civic bureaucracies has not only failed to deliver peace but is the partial cause of the present alienation of so many Muslim young people from the society in which they were born, where they have been educated and where they have lived most of their lives.