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The Christian Science Monitor - Dear Hillary,

The Christian Science Monitor - As I was watching my son's soccer game just before Mother's Day last year, a mom was trying to get her husband to get a chair out of the car. She implored him but he just looked at her. I couldn't help but chime in: "Hey, it's Mother's Day weekend!" He went to get the chair. On his way, he told me half-jokingly, "That was no fair." Everyone chuckled. A reminder about Mother's Day inspired him to do an unpleasant chore.

USATODAY.com - Since 2005, Hurricane Katrina has been shorthand for government incompetence in managing the aftermath of a devastating storm. But in the Southeast Asian nation of Burma, struck by a similar storm last weekend, even a Katrina-style response would, sadly, pass as a miracle of efficiency.

USATODAY.com - John McCain has a record of reasonableness on judicial politics. He voted to confirm Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer, the two Supreme Court justices nominated by a Democrat. And, in 2005, he joined a bipartisan group of senators known as the "Gang of 14" that cut a deadlock-breaking deal on judicial nominees.

USATODAY.com - John McCain's graceful and serious speech this week at Wake Forest University puts one of the most important issues of 2008 squarely in focus. Will social policy in the USA continue to be made by panels of unelected judges with lifetime tenure, or will we have a judiciary governed by self-restraint and fidelity to the rule of law?

RealClearPolitics.com - In recent weeks, Congress has been furiously backtracking on ethanol, with Democrats considering legislation that would freeze ethanol subsidies and mandates at their current level, while Republicans are talking about rolling back the whole system.

RealClearPolitics.com - Largely on the basis of George Stephanopoulos' sources, ABC is reporting intermediaries from the Obama and Clinton campaigns are discussing the formation of a dream ticket with Hillary as veep. While the logic of trying to assuage Clinton's base and unify the party is understandable, I've never understood how or why people think this would work.

Georgie Anne Geyer - WASHINGTON -- One can only wonder how a country like Myanmar -- historically known as Burma -- can bear all the miseries being heaped upon it. On top of the savage military dictatorship that has ruled it since 1990 comes Cyclone Nargis, another of those destructive Southeast Asian storms, killing perhaps as many as 100,000 people.

Ted Rall - NEW YORK--I argue with my friends. Some of them thought invading Iraq was a good idea.

Maggie Gallagher - You'd never guess it listening to Obama or Hillary talk, but Americans are among the happiest people on Earth.

Ann Coulter - Well, it looks like it's the end of the road for Hillary. Time for her to pack up her pantsuits and go back to ... wherever it is she's pretending to be living these days. Now we just have to get rid of the other two. Perhaps if I endorse Obama ...

Larry Elder - "It's a recession," said former President Harry Truman, "when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours."

Joe Conason - In this protracted and often dispiriting prelude to the general election, few remarks have been as poorly chosen as Sen. Hillary Clinton's threat to "totally obliterate" Iran. What she obliterated with just those two words were her own boasts of superior diplomatic experience — and she managed at the same time to tar America's international image with all the subtlety of the man she hopes to replace.

HuffingtonPost.com - The British have Buckingham Palace. The French have Élysée Palace. Americans, we have... The White House? The WHITE House. The White HOUSE.

AP - Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: