Some "maybe I'll find time to do more with 'em later" things and some things too short to excerpt and too good to not mention. I occasionally move things from Bill's Nibbles to longer posts as the day goes on.

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• Iranian Diplomat Denies Seeking Democrat Nomination
  Scott Ott:  Despite his call this weekend for a timetable for the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, Iran’s deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs, Abbas Araghchi, told reporters at a multinational peace conference in Baghdad that he has “no immediate plans” to seek the Democrat nomination for the U.S. presidency in 2008. ...

• Debunking a sob story

• Kerry's Swift Retribution
  WSJ Opinion Journal: The country long ago moved beyond John Kerry's Presidential ambitions, but the Senator, as he seems never to tire of reminding us, has not. Now Mr. Kerry's throbbing grievances jeopardize President Bush's nominee for U.S. Ambassador to Belgium. ...

• Democrat: Bring Guantanamo Detainees to the US
  Kim Priestap: What a stunningly bad idea. James D. Moran (D-VA) wants to bring the worst, most dangerous terrorists this world has ever known, whose goals are to kill as many Americans as possible, to America. ...

• Musical chairs in the Senate
  Michelle Malkin: Somehow, I don't this new seating arrangement on the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee is going to help much ...

• Spelling it out
  Scott Johnson: The overlap between James Baker's professional interest and his diplomatic hobbyhorse is spelled out in this AP story that appears in precisely one newspaper today: