Jeff Weintraub, Comments and Controversies – Pass the Damn Bill

He’s been saying it all week long: Democrats, don’t be punks.

Corey Kilgannon, The New York Times – Serpico on Serpico

For film aficionados and New Yorkers of a certain age: Frank Serpico today. How a whole life can turn on one series of events.

Jeffrey Goldberg – The Taboo That Just Won’t Shut Up, Chapter 43

Just how completely absurd is Andrew Sullivan? Goldblog demonstrates for us.

Michael J. Totten, Commentary – A Third Lebanon War?

And when it happens, how much in denial will how many people be that the theo-authoritarian military organization Hezbollah has hijacked Lebanon, funded and armed by Syria and Iran. See also

Howard Schneider, The Washington Post: Hezbollah’s relocation of rocket sites to Lebanon’s interior poses wider threat.

Maybe they mean what they say.