BILL FRIST is patting himself on the back for getting the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 passed unanimously. The president pro tem Stevens and his Democratic counterpart Byrd had put the bill under double-secret probation. Now to get them to pass a federal budget by the Oct. 1 deadline.
BASIL'S nightly take on 10 headlines is up.
THE NY POST reported Bill Clinton demanded ABC not show "The Path To 9/11."
DON SURBER on what that means.
THE DETROIT NEWS reported the UAW won't make health insurance concessions to Chrysler. Toyota smiles again.
THE CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER reported Case-Western Reserve researchers have helped crack the genetic code for breast and colon cancers. This may be the biggest breakthrough since the heart transplant.
NYT reported Tony Blair will retire next year — four years after brother Jayson Blair "retired" from NYT.
DAISY CUTTER opined on the wacky-weed-smoking Longhorns as they prepare for the Buckeye game. They were just Keeping Austin Weird.
THE CHARLESTON BLOG lamented the shrinking Regatta in W.Va. The Gazette reported strippers showed up. But so did the rain. Sigh.
JIM LYNCH ain't buying the lib talking point that the war has turned Southern women against the GOP. Once again, skeptic is a compliment, Jim.
DEROY MURDOCK: "A national health-care system may be the Holy Grail of American liberalism… Amy Ridenour of the National Center for Public Policy Research sees this model more as a poisoned chalice." Hat tip, who else, Amy Ridenour.