By JIM JENKINS
Sacramento Bee
Wednesday, August 08, 2007

To say Joe Frazier isn't impressed by the current state of boxing's heavyweights is an understatement.

"A lot of these guys I see do more clinching and hugging than fighting," said the ex-champ, stifling a laugh during a recent phone interview from Philadelphia.

By LISA HOFFMAN
Scripps Howard News Service
Monday, August 06, 2007

It's occurring largely under the nation's radar screen, but the National Guard is well on the way to pulling thousands of its troops back from the border with Mexico, even though there are not enough civilian officers to replace them.

At its height, Operation Jump Start -- as the effort was named when it began in June 2006 -- deployed about 6,000 citizen-soldiers from around the country to New Mexico, Arizona, Texas and California to bolster the border against illegal immigrants and drug smugglers attempting to enter.

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By STAR PARKER
Scripps Howard News Service
Monday, August 06, 2007

I believe that reasonable people look at facts and draw rational conclusions.

It's why I am mystified at the open and passionate embrace today by the Democratic Party of plain old unadulterated liberalism.

Being labeled a liberal fifteen years ago was the kiss of political death.

By ELAN JOURNO
The Providence Journal
Monday, August 06, 2007

Americans rightly admire our troops for their bravery, dedication and integrity.

The Marines, for instance, are renowned for abiding by an honorable code _ as warriors and as individuals in civilian life.

They epitomize the rectitude of America's soldiers.

But a recently disclosed Pentagon study _ little noted in the media _ has seemingly cast a shadow over our troops.

By M.E. SPRENGELMEYER
Scripps Howard News Service
Friday, August 03, 2007

Rep. Tom Tancredo and Sen. Barack Obama finally have something in common.

They're both being slammed this week in Pakistan.

For Tancredo, a Colorado Republican, it's a rerun.

In Iowa, he dusted off the controversy that sparked worldwide protests in 2005, when he told folks in Iowa that the United States should threaten to destroy Muslim holy sites as a deterrent to future attacks by Islamic terrorists.

And how did that go over in Islamabad? Not well, according to the Pakistan Tribune:

"Federal Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Sher Afghan Khan Niazi informed the House that the statement of U.S.

By STEPHANIE NOLEN
Toronto Globe and Mail
Friday, August 03, 2007

They sat, 40 men, hunched and intent around a long table, a row of glasses in front of them, evening light glinting off the dark green of bottles.

By BETSY PICKLE
Scripps Howard News Service
Friday, August 03, 2007

Kasi Lemmons is thinking revolution, but she doesn't expect to get one.

That's too bad, because after making a movie about outspoken '60s-'70s radio personality Petey Greene, she's in the mood.

"Looking back at the '60s in general, the president was assassinated, a huge civil-rights leader -- a prophet -- was slain and the government thought that revolution was possible," says Lemmons, director of "Talk to Me." "They were afraid that there might actually be a revolution.