High winds, lots of rain, lots of broken tree limbs littering roads and property.  My CITIZEN JOURNALIST’S INSTICTS tell me to expect more of same—including lots of broken shutters and some light flooding—until the storm passes.  Developing… related:  Despite its ferocious category 3 pounding of the Gulf Coast, Hurricane Dennis has brought with it no sign of missing Alabama teen Natalee Holloway—though, for what it’s worth, Florida residents interviewed for

From “The Mother of All Connections,” Stephen Hayes and Thomas Joscelyn in the July 18 Weekly Standard: For many, the debate over the former Iraqi regime’s ties to Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda network ended a year ago with the release of the 9/11 Commission report. Media outlets seized on a carefully worded summary that the commission had found no evidence “indicating that Iraq cooperated with al Qaeda in developing