Last man out in mine miracle.

Just below the surface of the news is the belief of experts that the US will move on Iraq and its current brutal regime this fall. How do you feel about it? Is this something we should be doing and do you think the country is ready for an all out effort of this kind?

After midnight, a miracle.
``All nine are alive'': Just after 1:00AM EDT the first reports of life. By 1:30AM , THREE rescues. Our all-news-all-night- Ldot-reporters-at-large have the details. This follow-up piece by the AP's Judy Lin confirms many of the details that were reported early on by our Ldot team. The first words from the miners - 'What took you guys so long?'

The Sunday-Snap-Shot
Back to Bubba-Speak: As he left a memorial service in Washington on Friday, the ex-president took time to rap with a local reporter and rejected 'suggestions' that 'he bears part of the blame for the corporate accounting scandals'. In what has become an all-too-familiar-form-de-attack-and-deny, he remarked: "These people ran on responsibility, but as soon as you scratch them, they go straight to blame," and "Now, you know, I didn't blame his father..."

Slap-Back: With 'the number one message that voters are hearing from the democrats throughout this period is attack', say Republican pollsters, comes backlash: "Right now their attacks are benefiting us because every time they launch an attack on the president and the Republicans, people - especially independents - respond negatively to it."

It's not business as usual. The people of Whitewater are following the tales of corporate rapaciousness and watching the stock market fall and bounce back. In this small university-town of about 12,000 or so in Wisconsin they discuss the 'market' and 'the fed' and their financial futures with a passion. The townsfolk have now issued this unique economic forecast.

Of kitchens and Sunday's: 'Some days I know just what Martha Stewart meant when she said, "I just want to focus on my salad' writes Kathleen Parker. I'm just wishing for a single day when life is sufficiently normal ...

-For your salad-dazed-WestCoastLComStaff-who-wish-you-Sunday's-best, Amy Sheehan