Islam to reign over Britain, US, rest of world: test of freedom of religion. “Are we to say that Muslims can fully practice religion in America,” he asked in an attempt to explain. “Say, for instance, I was a Muslim in America. Could I call for the destruction of the American government and establishment of an Islamic state in America? No. So where is the freedom of religion? There is

Domestic Christian terrorists captured: “They admit to being Christian and being brought up Christian, but they believe there should be one denomination and one church, not multiple denominations,” Havens said. “They did not say they had a name for their group, other than they were a radical Christian activist group. That was the way they explained their group,” he said. The suspects said the group has three levels of involvement:

much better than Armitage kept Plame’s. Nothing we didn’t know, as far as I can tell, but he tells his story in more detail in an excerpt from his new book. Also, an opportunity for timing questioning regarding Colin Powell’s remarks at Aspen.

In order to put a human face on American poverty, John Edwards is opening his mansion to public showings for the underprivileged, where they’ll be served a sit-down home cooked meal, receive a health-screening, a chance to enjoy the swimming pool and other recreational facilities and a get a hairc . . . . What? Oh. Strike that.

….by a lunatic “angry at the government”. Senior Airman Jonathan Schrieken remains in critical condition after taking a .38 slug to the heart. From MSNBC: WILLINGBORO — The Pennsauken man who shot and wounded a member of the U.S. Air Force before killing himself left suicide notes that indicated he was “angry at the government and wanted to make a statement” on Independence Day, one of the man’s relatives said

Patterico did a decent job debunking the latest effluvium from Ellers McEllerson, claiming that the Sixth Circuit’s decision on the NSA warrantless surveillance case “had absolutely nothing to do with the merits of the case,” as far as Patterico went.  But inasmuch as Patterico admits he is not an expert on the issue of standing to sue in federal court, I would add that Patterico ended up going light on the Gleen(s).

Cindy Sheehan, the soldier’s mother who galvanized the anti-war movement, said Sunday that she plans to run against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unless she introduces articles of impeachment against President Bush in the next two weeks. Sheehan said she will run against the San Francisco Democrat in 2008 as an independent if Pelosi does not seek by July 23 to impeach Bush. That’s when Sheehan and her supporters are to

Public Editor Clark Hoyt has a piece in today’s edition, that ends as follows: I went back and read war coverage for much of the month of June and found many stories that conveyed the complexity and chaos of today’s Iraq. Times reporters wrote that Iraq’s political leaders were failing to meet benchmarks that would show satisfactory progress to the American government, that a formerly peaceful Shiite city in southern

Although you may not like what you get. TigerHawk does an excellent piece on the Pew International Survey results that Gleen touted and I posted on here. Key paragraph: The Pew Center report curiously avoids this point, but to me it is important: The idea that the United States should “deal with” the world’s most pressing problems (at least if the U.N. does not) is particularly popular in Western Europe,