Unless we goose the UN on the matter of disarming Hezbollah, we lose Lebanon, says Krauthammer, because

Hezbollah is not just returning to being a “state within a state.” It is becoming the state, with the Siniora [Lebanese] government reduced to acting as its front.

A Dem hack hath spoke, as explained at Power Line:

Who’s afraid of Anna Diggs Taylor? Anyone who knows what legal analysis and legal argument look like — anyone who knows the requisites of legal reasoning — must look on the handiwork of Judge Anna Diggs Taylor in the NSA case in amazement. It is a pathetic piece of work. If it had been submitted by a student in my second year legal writing class at the University of St. Thomas Law School, it would have earned a failing grade.

Etc.

Later, more, from WaPo:

The angry rhetoric of U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor will no doubt grab headlines. But as a piece of judicial work — that is, as a guide to what the law requires and how it either restrains or permits the NSA’s program — her opinion will not be helpful.

NYT doesn’t think so, however:

The New York Times editorial today, cheering on Judge Taylor’s lame and irresponsible decision striking down the Terrorist Surveillance Program (TSP), is, like Taylor’s opinion, a joke.

It’s here.