- Your Money or Your Life by Joe Brancatelli, The Brancatelli Files
- Bush's Wasted Opportunity by Gene Lyons, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
- A True Patriot Can Pose Hard Questions by Robert Scheer, Los Angeles Times
- The Gary Conditization Of The Terror Story by Arianna Huffington
- In Search of a Security Level by William F. Buckley, Jr.
- House Stimulus Plan: This is Unity? by Matthew Miller, Tribune Media Services
- House Zealots Block Anti-Terror Efforts by Joe Conason, New York Observer