Those mullahs so beloved of the Europeans are at it again. Having decimated the already powerless opposition to Islamist theocracy in their recent “elections,” they are trying to undermine Gaddafi’s policy of WMD disarmament. From the Telegraph:
Western intelligence specialists have learned from interrogation of al-Qaeda suspects, captured close to Afghanistan’s border with Iran, that a militant group of Libyan extremists is being protected and trained by terrorism experts from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.
Hmm. What a surprise: al Qaeda in league with Iran.
BUMILLER LOST: Wonkette has the best reaction to the last Democratic debate. For my part, it confirmed something I’ve suspected for a while. John Kerry is highly unlikely to put John Edwards on his ticket. And his spending plans make even George Bush look fiscally responsible. A must-read this week: the Washington Post’s analysis of Kerry’s big spending budget plans. It looks increasingly as if anyone who cares about fiscal sanity is going to have to sit this election out.
THE GOODS ON NADER: A liberal argues that Ralph Nader has not suddenly become a bane to pragmatic liberalism. He’s always been a vain, monomaniacal enemy of liberal reform. Jon Chait is on a roll.
AGAINST THE AMENDMENT: One site has accumulated evidence that 48 senators are now on record as either against or very cool to the religious right amendment to the constitution.
SCHRODER ON THE ROPES: He wasn’t just beaten in the Hamburg elections. His party was buried. The best blog on German politics also catches up on Der Spiegel.
GIBSON ON NON-CATHOLICS: They’re all going to hell. That includes all those evangelicals who are flocking to his movie and even his wife.
QUOTE FOR THE DAY: “The Constitution says that all men are created equal, and it doesn’t say that all men are created equal except for gays. Just like everyone else who is born in this country, gays are endowed by their creator, God, with inalienable rights, and among those are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. At birth, whether your are born in Russia, Cuba, South America, or New York, you are born equal. The difference is that our [American] babies grow up to live free.” – Barry Goldwater, my kind of Republican.
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