This late summer day is perfect time for a cup of coffee or glass of iced tea and reading news you’ll never see covered in the mainstream media. Just hearing the headlines from the drive-by media: CBS, NBC, CNN, or other liberal media outlet is confusing and confounding on a daily basis. Enjoy the best of the web.
Hot Air has more about the Michigan men and their cell phone problem. It seems that the Treason Times is connected to this plot too.
Captain Ed has an excellent summary of the Sunday News programs and their emphasis on the foiled terror plot. The inane agrument that the Iraqi War is a major distraction from the “real war” is decimated by Ed.
Much of the conversation on yesterday’s interview shows centered on the tools needed to provide the necessary security for the US. Chertoff noted that the British have more flexibility for counterterrorist efforts within their country, and those additional powers played a significant role in discovering the extent of the conspiracy. Chertoff declined to explicitly endorse the no-warrant NSA surveillance on international communications, but he told two news shows that we should not leave “tools on the table” in our fight against terrorists. That assertion came under some fire from other talk-show guests. Senator Russ Feingold, widely rumored to be staging a presidential run, says that he thinks NSA surveillance of terrorists is fine, but he wants the NSA to get the warrants first when part of the communication comes from within the US. Ned Lamont struggled to answer Chris Wallace’s questions on Fox News Sunday in an appearance that lent little luster to his flagging campaign. He insisted that the US is distracted by the war in Iraq despite the discovery and halt to this massive terrorist plot and the lack of successful attacks on the US since 9/11. He told Wallace that it was “time to focus”, but then opposed the Patriot Act and the surveillance programs that Chertoff mentioned. The distraction argument sounds great as a political sound bite, but the evidence seems very thin. It assumes that the government can only perform one task at a time. Congress created the DHS in order to allow for homeland defense while the Pentagon focused on a forward strategy against the terrorists. DHS has nothing to do with Iraq or Afghanistan, and no one has yet to explain why those wars distract DHS from its primary mission. If anything, Katrina showed that homeland security had distracted Chertoff and his team from emergency response, a secondary task that Congress grafted onto the department in what has now widely been acknowledged as a mistake. Chertoff emphatically discarded the notion that Iraq or the successful end to the terrorist plot against British and American airliners had provided a distraction. Their track record speaks to their success, and the collapse of this grand al-Qaeda plan seems to demonstrate even better competence and cooperation than we had hoped.
Rummy Outlfanks Hilary: see it at Blogs for Condi!
Vote for a presidential ticket here. It’s interesting for republicans.
Sister Toldjah has the internals of the Rasmussen poll showing Lieberman ahead in the senate race. The Lamont voters want Bush impeached.
Sister Toldjah has the internals of the Rasmussen poll showing Lieberman ahead in the senate race. The Lamont voters want Bush impeached.
Ouch! Betsy has an analysis of Michael Barone’s column today comparing the American Liberals to Neville Chamberlin. These American Liberals don’t look too good by comparison.
Tuesday was a victory for the angry antiwar Left that set the tone in the Democrats’ 2003-04 presidential cycle and seems likely to set the tone again in 2007-08. Thursday was a reminder that there are, as George W. Bush has finally taken to calling them, Islamic fascist terrorists who want to kill us and destroy our way of life.
Read the whole article-it is worth it.
Centerfield has lots of information on Joe Lieberman in Setting the Record Straight.
AJ Strata has a great piece: Lamont Shaken by Big League Politics
We Need A Hero at Ankle Biting Pundits highlights Charles Krauthammer’s latest, and predicting the further demise of Democrats.
AJ Strata has a great piece: Lamont Shaken by Big League Politics
We Need A Hero at Ankle Biting Pundits highlights Charles Krauthammer’s latest, and predicting the further demise of Democrats.
