At the top of the news, of course, is the revelation that Israel has plans for a tactical nuke strike against Iranian nuclear facilities.

Much more surprising, LGF gives kudos to Barbara Boxer for rescinding an award that would have gone to a CAIR official (h/t Allahpundit).  CAIR officials are predictably outraged:

“The entire issue is going back to Israel,” Awad adds. “If you love Israel, you’re OK. If you question Israel, you’re not. If that is the litmus test, no American Muslim and no freedom-loving person is going to pass that test.”

The issue isn’t whether or not we love Israel.  The issue is whether or not we believe it has a right to exist.  Like Syria, for instance.

Which leads us to a *gulp* excellent article in The Guardian’s “Comment Is Free,” entitled ”Secular fundamentalists are the new totalitarians”.  A sample:

But the fundamentalists saw an opening. Because we live in a multiconfessional society, they fostered the falsehood that wearing a crucifix or a veil or a turban was deeply offensive to other faiths. They pretended to be protecting religious sensibilities as a pretext to strip us of all religious expressions. In 2006 Jack Straw and BA fell into the fundamentalists’ trap.

Perhaps still more amazing is my admission that I was wrong about one point of Gleen’s usage, “compose” being preferable to “comprise” in the place he used it.  I did not realize that comprise was from the same root as “comprehend.” Perhaps I’ll stick with constitute.  It did perform its function of alerting people to GiGi’s obfuscatory use of language, though.

Finally, Joe Malchow heroically stops a hack attack on Power Line.  Charges may be forthcoming, and Joe’s got very good advice for any site owners.

There.  That ought to keep the little bastards happy for a while.  I have to go to Mass.