Democrats who want to look “tough” want to increase troops: Centrists who contend Democrats cannot retake the White House until voters trust the party to protect them said Sunday the Army should expand by 100,000 soldiers and that colleges should open their campuses to military recruiters. Associated Press: Centrist Dems urge military enlargement This issue [...]

Montag first wrote about it

Callimachus posted on this the other day. Blasts from two massive car bombs, and a third bomb left in a “sack”, have killed a confirmed 88 people in Egypt. Today, Al Jazeera television reports the suspects are Pakistanis. Egyptian police are searching for up to nine Pakistani suspects in the bomb attacks that killed scores [...]

Debra Saunders of the San Francisco Chronicle writes: Imagine, as I’ve written before, if anti-abortion terrorists began killing innocent civilians and said they would stop only if the government outlaws abortion. (After all, if terrorism wins for Islamic extremists, why shouldn’t U.S. extremists adopt it?) The Left would not fault pro-abortion policies. The Left would [...]

A bit of music criticism to start your day out right

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For more information on the reporter who has been jailed in Iran for telling the truth, visit our previous post on Akbar Ganji.

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And Hugh Hewitt rips him a new one. Congressman Tom Tancredo takes to the pages of the Denver Post today in an effort to resurrect his reputation. He fails because he doubles down on his absurd insistence that “bombing Mecca” ought to be “on the table.” No serious politician in the country has come to [...]

So it seems they want to have their cake and eat it too and then try to hide the fact that they ate cake in the first place, even though they have crumbs all over your face and everybody saw them ask for unlimited cakes just a couple of days ago. More from Editor And [...]

Joe Gandelman does a fantastic job over at The Moderate Voice and this post about reactions and news about the shooting in Britain is no exception. Everything you need to know about the shooting and much, much more.

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Apparently the “justice-to-be” is also a well polished conservative gem. And the more I hear about the guy, the more I think he’s a good pick which could make the court more moderate, not more conservative. Sure, he’s demonstrated that he has conservative values, but as we pointed out on Wednesday, Roberts’ rulings haven’t shown [...]

The man shot in the London subway wasn’t a terrorist. And then I think back to the article when Montag first posted about the shooting. In fact, I remember these words: [Witness Mark Whitby] reported the man did not seem to be carrying a weapon or wearing a rucksack. I can’t imagine what the man’s [...]

Come on…

Strategy Page has a good timeline of Islamic militant activities in the country.

The President wants a blank check to hold anybody for anything length of time and do anything to them. How will this help us win a war against an idea?

My man Big Pharaoh has been blogging it. I hope that we as Egyptians would take such a confrontational stand. I hope that any protest can be organized. I hope that our “intellectuals” will abandon their “this-is-because-of-dictatorship” and “this-is-because-of-Iraq” and “this-is-the-work-of-the-mossad-no-egyptian-can-carry-out-such-an-attack” arguments and other excuses that come out of their mouth. I hope they see [...]

The top links of the week

If you haven’t read them, here are the links to part I, part II and part III. Now then, Caroline leaves a response to part III that I had to promote because it’s basically what we’re talking about in the first place. And while I don’t think the situation is as dire as she thinks [...]