President Bush is facing another challenge on Iraq from the US Senate, this time it's a bill sponsored by Republicans John Warner and Richard Lugar that would force the President to "to come up with a plan by mid-October to dramatically narrow the mission of U.S. troops in Iraq."

Sir Conrad Black was convicted of fraud today and now faces up to 20 years in the slammer. The upside? Maybe he can crank out another book or two.

Here's a good one: interviewing Ron Paul on his radio show, Alex Jones compared neocons to Hitler and then asked Paul, "how much danger are we in of some new Gulf of Tonkin provocation?" Paul responded, "I think we're in great danger of it...Right now there's an orchestrated effort to blame the Iranians for everything that's gone wrong in Iraq, and we're quite concerned, many of us, that the attack will be on Iran and that will confuse things and jeopardize so many more of our troops."

A draft of the National Intelligence Estimate says al-Qaeda is poised to attack the US. And if you don't believe the 16 intelligence agencies that had a hand in crafting the NIE, well, just ask Taliban military commander Mansour Dadullah. ABC News is reporting that Dadullah told a Pakistani journalist four days ago that al-Qaeda is gearing up for a summer terror offensive in the US that will dwarf the failed bombings in London and Glasgow.

Inflation: bounty on bin Laden's head doubles to $50 million.

John McCain tells ABC News that only "contracting a fatal disease" will cause him to drop out of the Republican presidential race early. We'll see.

Good news, if true: N. Korea set to shut down nuclear reactor. Also here: Iran grants inspectors greater access to reactor.

Former Senator Pothole, now 70, is expecting a little mud puddle.

Lastly, in the Good Samaritan file, a 27 year old ex-Marine thwarted a bank robbery in Georgia, tackling the burglar and then lecturing him about his "poor choice" until the police arrived and took the man away.