Excerpts from the YouGov survey of Muslim adults across Great Britain taken July 15-22, as highlighted by Daniel Pipes.
The survey found that 1 percent of them, or “about 16,000 individuals, declare themselves willing, possibly even eager, to embrace violence” in the effort to bring an end to “decadent and immoral” Western society.

All around, plenty to [...]

The National Hispanic Leadership Agenda (NHLA) has put out their annual Congressional Scorecard and the results don’t look good for Republican leaders.
CapitolBuzz with the story:
The average score for Senate Republicans was 34 percent, and the three top Senate Republican leaders have cast votes that earned them below-average scores from NHLA. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist [...]

A look around the blogosphere provides some interesting results.

From the 7 time Tour de France champion.
“Polls say people are much more afraid of cancer than of a plane flying into their house or a bomb or any other form of terrorism. It is a priority for the American public.”
Oh, and then the speculation begins…
That kind of tough talk has people suggesting Armstrong’s next [...]

Wired reports that The Sierra Club is showing a bit of centrist wisdom and backing the new Ford hybrid SUV, Mariner.
After years getting along about as well as the Montagues and the Capulets, the Sierra Club and automaker Ford have signed a temporary cease-fire. The Sierra Club has agreed to promote Ford’s new gas-electric hybrid [...]

Most readers of this site know who Michael Totten is. If not, you can read his first essay for this site, The West Has Never Been One.
Over at his personal site, Michael asks the readers to identify themselves as being either liberal, centrist or conservative. Over 700 people voted and the results point to more [...]

This is unfortunate.
TWO fugitive London bombers have been living in Britain on state benefits, it emerged last night.
Somalian Yasin Hassan Omar, 24, received £23,000 in housing benefit over six years while living at a flat in Southgate, North London, which was raided yesterday.
Flatmate Muktar Said-Ibrahim tried to bomb a bus.

For as much as I hear around the blogosphere that we should be hearing more good news coming out of Baghdad, stories like this seem to give a more holistic view of the situation.
Over 18 months, American officials spent almost $2 billion to revive the capital ravaged by war and neglect, according to Army [...]

“Alright, alright, I’ll throw in 20 cows too. You drive a hard bargain my friend. No wonder they called you Slick Willie… ”
Confused? Enlightenment awaits.
Former US president Bill Clinton has been offered 40 goats and 20 cows for his daughter by a love-struck African government official.
Mr Clinton was offered the deal on a recent [...]

It looks like the global “war” on terrorism is now a global “struggle”:
In recent speeches and news conferences, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and the nation’s senior military officer have spoken of “a global struggle against violent extremism” rather than “the global war on terror,” which had been the catchphrase of choice. Administration officials [...]

“This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone who asks, stand up for the stupid and the crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to [...]

The U.S. military has issued two press releases containing nearly identical quotations from “an unidentified Iraqi.” “Task Force Baghdad Public Affairs regrets the confusion…” which it attributes to an “administrative error.”
The quotes:
From Sunday:
” ‘The terrorists are attacking the infrastructure, the ISF and all of Iraq. They are enemies of humanity without religion or any [...]

An update to the story I linked to yesterday that said the suspects in the Egypt bombings were Pakistanis.
The Egyptian ambassador to Pakistan, Hussein Haridy, also denied reports that Pakistanis were involved in the attacks.
“We deny categorically any links between Pakistani nationals and Sharm el-Sheikh blasts,” he told Reuters in Islamabad. “As far as Pakistan [...]

Consider this critique of modern Western culture:
“Any objectives other than the immediate utilitarian ones are by-passed, and any human element other than ego is not recognized. While the whole of life is dominated by such materialism, there is no scope for laws beyond provisions for labor and production.”

Ted Hughes or Jimmy Carter might have written [...]

The left-wing blogosphere is buzzing with “John Roberts” and “Federalist Society.” Abuzz, abuzz, abuzz…
Here’s what the wikipedia entry on the Federalist Society has to say:
The 2005 Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts, Jr. was also reported to be a member, but there was uncertainty about this fact when Dana Perino, White House spokeswoman, said, “He [...]

This comes from an outstanding commentary on Islam by the author of “The Trouble with Islam Today.”
“Why is it that in diverse societies, those who oppose diversity of thought often feel more comfortable getting vocal than those who embrace it?”
Here’s still more wisdom from the article:
Why do we Muslims hang on to the mantra that [...]

I read recently on Eugene Volokh’s site that spellcheckers in common word-processing programs don’t recognize the nickname of “Lighthorse” Harry Lee — Robert E. Lee’s Revolutionary War hero father — as a word.
“With a nickname like that, history remembers Lee as a man of action, forever in motion.” Not any more. Spellcheckers change it to [...]

You can read the whole thing, but here are a few snips.
FAIRFIELD – American flags, lining the lawn of the mother- and father-in-law of fallen U.S. Army Pfc. Timothy Hines Jr., were heaped in a pile early Saturday and burned under a car parked in front of the home – less than 24 hours after [...]

Methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) contaminates water. MTBE manufacturers will likely not be able to bribe congress to shield them from lawsuits in the energy bill. Reuters: MTBE protection dropped from energy bill draft
The Bush Administration doesn’t like to release memos related to their nominees. As with Bolton, it is with Roberts. [...]