Shake-up in the CIA
As I figured, I’m swamped today but just got the MSNBC news alert that CIA Director Porter Goss has resigned. Via AP:
Reviews of Flight 93 movie
Lots of people going to see the movie about United Flight 93 this weekend. AllahPundit has a link roundup of reviews over at HotAir.com. The best of the best amongst the blogger reviews comes from Right Wing Nuthouse’s Rick Moran, who follows up with a slam on Slate movie critic Dana Stevens’ complaints that the film wasn’t, among other things, more political. Ouch.
David Beamer, father of Todd Beamer, on the Flight 93 movie
He says now is not too soon to see a movie about Flight 93, and that the producers of the movie got it right. He also includes a reminder in what he wrote for none of us to get complacent – and that the movie shows just why we should never forget … and never surrender – to those who want to take our freedoms away from us:
6 degrees of Mary McCarthy
If you’re familiar with the game “6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon” you’ll know what I mean with the above post title.
The wrong issue on which to make a stand re: federal funding
The Washington Post reports on a stand that Rep. Charles H. Taylor (R-N.C.) is making over federal funding for land that would be used for the permanent memorial to the heroes of United Flight 93:
ABC News and the equivalency card
When it comes to leaks which undermine our national security, we can always count on our media to come to the defense of those who leaked the information by either a) referring to them as “whistleblowers” or b) utilizing the “everybody does it” defense.