Media fast: Today is the first day of international TV Turnoff Week. Call it what you want--a media fast, a weeklong spiritual quest, a glancing (albeit small) blow off the chin of big media--but try it, a week without television.

If we don't keep threatening your civil rights, the terrorists have already won. "To abandon the Patriot Act would deprive law enforcement and intelligence officers of needed tools in the war on terror, and demonstrate willful blindness to a continuing threat," says the prez.

99 dead in April so far in Iraq.