Little Red Blog

China has both permitted some negative commentary on North Korea’s nuclear admission and withdrawal from the six-party talks, as well as asserted that they will remain in contact with all six-parties while working to restart the now year dead discussions. [HT: Powerpundit]

As I'v mentioned before, I don't believe that South Korea has followed the right course with the North for the past few years, and it appears they are going to continue providing aid to the North. Is it greed, after all the North's per capita GDP is 1/16th that of the South, compassion, being more wealthy and providing charity to distant family, or just an ill advised belief that Kim and Co' aren't that bad a bunch of guys?

Hamas on its best behavior. Good news for all, especially Chairman Abbas.

"Hamas's position regarding calm will continue unchanged and Israel will bear responsibility for any new violation or aggression," Ismail Haniyah

Michael Barone believes that the left leaning blogs have done what many of us have suspected for some time. Helped those they oppose. [HT: Instapundit, who is right that it didn't have to be that way.] Dean, Kerry, Carter, Pelosi, Gore, Moore - after all Bill did to make the Democrats seem not so lefty (post '94, with a Republican House and Senate), the Dems have gone out and become more leftist, more radical and more likely to lose. Save Hillary, Lieberman, and the wonderkund Obama. There is always Koch and Miller, but they've had enough.

Iran is being watched by U.S. drones launched from Iraq. The Sunday Washington Post delivers the story Drudge headlined late Saturday.

As usual, unnamed sources, but easily believable storyline. I for one hope that we have as many eyes on Iran as possible. As for the cat and mouse game of getting them to turn on radar, if that's what they want to call it, okay by me. There are many other advantages to the fly-overs beyond radar recognition.