“So.  Guess these blokes never saw Lawrence of Arabia, then.”

Instapundit has a nice collection of links; see also, the Command Post and Tim Worstall. Some speculation on the G-8 connection here; and, for a different take, here. Me?  I smell Al Qaeda sympathizers. And I suspect that once British authorities get through with the coming roundup of Muslim extremists in London and environs, Amnesty International will be compelled to begin braying about gulags on the Thames… **** update:  Right

Omega

The Boston Globe’s James Carroll—still upset that an endless barrage of sparklers and fire crackers wielded by spoiled bourgeois strip mall brats ruined his own July 4th celebration of a career spent highlighting America’s failings—pulls out his angry, flaccid little post-Independence Day penis and pisses all over the country whose armed forces have fought for his right to condemn them, even as he pretends to speak in their interests: The

From the Washington Post: The U.S. military is holding five U.S. citizens suspected of insurgent activities in Iraq, a Pentagon spokesman said Wednesday. They were captured separately and don’t appear to have ties to one another, spokesman Bryan Whitman said. He declined to identify them, citing a Pentagon policy that prohibits identification of detainees. Three of those being detained are Iraqi-Americans; another is an Iranian-American; the fifth is a Jordanian-American,

Oh well.  Looks like my several pleas of last week calling for substantial discussion on Iraq (in lieu of the kind of silly, canned chickenhawk rhetoric so fetishized by the anti-war left) has fallen on deaf ears.  But no worries:  Blackfive, Armed Liberal, Baldilocks, James Joyner, Tigerhawk, the Indepundit, and Donald Sensing have taken up the cause. For my part, I’ve decided that if you truly believe that the most

Feel the rich, cool salve of healing!* **** update:  “WHY ARE YOU SO AFRAID OF THE DIALOGUE, YOU FILTHY NAZI ENABLER YOU?”

Kerouac:  “Who cares?  Just mix tartar sauce and catsup.  Now, what’s say we go do something important, like maybe smoke a little reefer and dress our angst in the finery of words, man…”

Powerline’s John Hinderaker is having Second Thoughts on Kelo: Today most significant development projects involve multiple uses and cooperation between public and private entities. While such projects can no doubt be subject to various abuses, they can also be enormously successful and of great public benefit–to take just one example, consider the spectacular renovation of Baltimore’s inner harbor. Moreover, two factors minimize the danger that economic development projects pose to