Domestic counterterrorism efforts
I’ve had a busy day but wanted to link up to a couple of stories that are big time news in the blogosphere today.
WaPo: Al Qaeda in Iraq is “crippled”
Good news in the war on terror, and bad news for defeatist liberals:
Tom Friedman gushes: Who will be the next Al Gore?
When I last blogged about Tom Friedman, he was yearning for a 9/10 president in a post-9/11 world. Today, we find him giddy with excitement over the Goracle’s Nobel Peace prize win last Friday. Friedman opines (emphasis added):
Sad news in the blogosphere
If you’ve been around the blogosphere any length of time, you are sure to have seen the daily cartoons of the Chris Muir, cartoons which have been a source of reading/viewing enjoyment for millions of blog readers for the last five years. Two years ago, I joined in a blog-wide campaign to drum up visibility for the website of the cancer treatment center that helped keep his sister, Cathy, alive. Cathy suffered from stage 4 colon cancer.
The Panthers at the Cardinals – and other sports news (UPDATE: PANTHERS WIN 25-10)
Game time isn’t until 4:05 ET, but I’m getting ready to head out for a bit and am not sure I’ll be back in time to start a thread prior to kickoff. Plus, I wanted to give ya’ll a thread to talk about how your favorite teams are doing today, too.
NYT’s Frank Rich compares Bush, supporters to Hitler and the “good [ignorant] Germans”
Like the majority of glass-house dwelling New York Times columnists, Rich has simply lost it: