Here are a few quick stories/links I’ve been remiss in posting about today – trying to get back into the blogger groove after some light blogging over the holiday weekend:
— The President gave a war on terror speech today on the close-to five year anniversary of the 9-11 attacks. Here’s the transcript [1]. He also released a document today called the “National Strategy for Combating Terrorism [2]“, a strategy he says we’ve been pursuing since 9-11.
— The lefty blogosphere is in need of a wahmbulance, apparently, as they are still up in arms [3] over ABC’s upcoming docudrama about 9-11 [4], which makes me even more interested in watching it than I was before. All this hoopla over it makes me think that perhaps the docudrama doesn’t whitewash the Clinton administration’s miserable failures on the emerging and growing AQ threat like the 9-11 Commission [5] did. Good. Hugh Hewitt [6] blogs about some possible edits ABC will be making to the movie.
— The Federal Electoral Tribunal in Mexico has declared [7] the conservative candidate Felipe Calderon the winner in Mexico’s hotly contested presidential elections [8]. His main rival, Manuel Lopez Obrador, is promising a ‘parallel leftist government from the streets.’ See Gateway Pundit [9] for more links on that story.
— Condolences go to blogger Joshua Micah Marshall [10] – his father passed away from a heart attack two weeks ago. Joshua has blogged a touching story about it today. (Hat tip: Kim Priestap [11])
— Jason [12] blogs about the Big Kaboom (not to be confused with former NCSU visiting prof Dr. Kamau Kambon [13]) that wasn’t. His post is about how ‘experts’ had been predicting earlier this year that there would be a massive wave of Hispanics registering to vote over the immigration issue. So far, that prediction has fallen way off the mark.
— Matt at Blackfive [14] has a new book out called The Blog of War: Front-Line Dispatches from Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan [15]. Looks like a must-read.
— Greg Tinti [16] has video of the Perky One’s debut on CBS Evening News tonight. El Rushbo [17] will be doing a 90 second guest segment on Thursday. More links on this via Malkin [18]. Fellow NC blogger Mary Katharine Ham [19] provides some thoughtful commentary on la Couric’s deubt.
— Tom Maguire [20] examines an article [21] of David Corn’s in which Corn discusses what Valerie Plame’s role supposedly actually was at the CIA. Corn, along with Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff, dropped the bomb last week with the news [22] that it was not-so-fond-of-the-Iraq-war Dep. Sec. of State Richard Armitage [23] who admitted to ‘leaking’ Plame’s name back in 2003 – done so without malicious intent.