IBD- Upscale Jihadists

Jeffrey Lord- July 4th- So when is it worth fighting for something?

"Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?" asked Patrick Henry almost 90 years before the carnage of Gettysburg. "Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies have bound us hand and foot?"

For an increasingly vocal number of Americans, the answer seems to be "yes!"

As we celebrate this latest Fourth of July, all Americans -- both supporters and opponents of the war in Iraq -- could do worse than to reflect on what it really means to pay for the freedom they see all around them. To understand that the horrors that were visited 144 years ago on this quaint Pennsylvania town just down the road from here were necessary to the freedom we wake up to every single day in the 21st century.

Ben Stein- Scooter Libby.........................American Spectator

Crime beat- the BS saga continues- lots of talk ,PR announcements and ......where were the resources for the Crowns-2 years later.???

"We're now at risk of having charges dropped and mark my words, this failure on the part of the attorney general to properly manage this process is going to result in plea bargains, reduced charges and charges being dropped and criminals being let out onto the street," said New Democrat justice critic Peter Kormos.

Progressive Conservative justice critic Christine Elliott said the ruling is a "real embarrassment" for the province.

"I would say it's totally inept from beginning to end in terms of the attorney general's handling of this. I mean this is something that had gone on for 11 months," she said.

"(Attorney General Michael Bryant) was confident that there would be enough court resources on-hand to handle it and everything fell apart at the last minute."

meanwhile......about 2 years ago

Oct. 25 2005

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20051025/toronto_gunsquad_051025/20051025?hub=Canada

"Ontario's Attorney General Michael Bryant said the province is helping to tackle the gun problem by expanding the task force by 26 senior police and 32 additional prosecutors"

Michael Yon reporting from Iraq- Update on Bless the Beasts and Children

Caroline Glick

RWANDA

"The former French president François Mitterrand supported the perpetrators of the 1994 Rwandan genocide despite clear warnings that mass killings of the Tutsi population were being orchestrated, according to declassified French documents."

Daniel Pipes......

"Almost thirty years after Islamists first attacked Americans, and on the eve of three major attempted terrorist attacks in Great Britain, the president's speech reveals how confused Washington remains."

Melanie Phillips - the terrorists in Britain

NGO Monitor blog

China and pollution.....................

"Beijing persuaded the World Bank to cut from a report findings that pollution has caused about 750,000 premature deaths in China each year, the Financial Times reported."

Doug Farah- AQ / Hamas relationship

Matthew Levitt-....Hamas's Hidden Economy

Global warming poll..........................via Instapundit

Mark Steyn....the Docs of War.......................NRO

Seven doctors held over al-Qa'eda bomb plot- did they violate the Hippocratic Oath?

T"The suspected al-Qa'eda terrorists behind the attempted car bomb attacks on Britain were almost all foreign doctors working in the NHS, it can be disclosed today.

Mohammed Asha, six NHS doctors held over al-Qa'eda campaign
Suspect: Mohammed Asha

It comes as an eighth person - also a foreign doctor who has worked in the UK - was arrested in Australia in connection with the attacks."

Dean Barnett-inside the beltway -out of the loop ...via Instapundit

"Mort’s a great guy, but he has the immigration bill debacle completely bass-ackwards. Talk radio didn’t lead the charge so much as it gave voice to the angered conservative base. The Republican Party’s problem wasn’t that it angered a handful of professional talkers (myself included). Its problem was that it outraged virtually its entire base with the content of the immigration bill and the downright un-American way the Senate and the administration attempted to shove the bill down the throat of the American body politic."

Family Security Matters

Christopher Hitchens-"The London car-bomb plot was designed to kill women."

Crime beat- ID fraud-"It's wild west for the bad guys'

Joe Warmington-......."The slogan for Toronto sometimes should be As Stupid As It Gets."

Europe's epitaph.....................Arnaud de Borchgrave

"In a similar vein, historian (20 books) Walter Laqueur's "The Last Days of Europe" writes the "Epitaph for an Old Continent." European churches are empty, mosques are jammed and the blind liberal belief in multiculturalism is a leaky lifeboat in the realpolitik ocean. Islamist extremists, spurning multicultural stratagems for integration, were allowed to proselytize their violent creed with impunity under freedom of speech laws. Communist Party members did their thing in democratic countries, so why not Islamists?.......

The July 7, 2005, attacks on the London subway and a double-decker bus was reveille, but a day late and a dollar short. The rabble-rousing had already morphed to the Internet — and its more than 5,000 pro-al Qaeda Web sites — which now functions as a detection-proof terrorist network.

Moving through cyberspace every 24 hours is the equivalent of almost 1,000 times the entire content of the Library of Congress with its 130 million items on 530 miles of shelf space. Steganography, the technique of concealing messages inside innocent family pictures, is widely used in cyberspace."

No shortage of useful fools...............

"I remember how we used to laugh in celebration whenever people on TV proclaimed that the sole cause for Islamic acts of terror like 9/11, the Madrid bombings and 7/7 was Western foreign policy," explained ex-terrorist Hassan Butt in yesterday's Daily Mail. "By blaming the Government for our actions, those who pushed this 'Blair's bombs' line did our propaganda work for us."