I just got back from the Chefs Market this evening with my heart still beating hard. I went with my 5-year-old daughter, my 3-year-old son and their dad. In a split second, while my two children were petting a green snake, my son vanished. I turned to their dad and he could not see him either.

Iraq is a world from Napa, and the war in Iraq is not on all of our minds each day as we go about our daily routines.

This time, Ann Coulter has set herself up for the kind of personal attack that's her specialty. In her latest frantic bid for attention, the right-wing pundit set her claws into the "Jersey Girls," Sept. 11 widows whose civic activism helped the nation find its bearings after the terrorist attack.

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