The entertaining, biting, and insightful Saudi blogger Muttawa has moved to Britian and resumed blogging after a year-long hiatus. More than a few feared he had been silenced by Saudi authorities for his his merciless criticism of the Saud family, but he was just laying low, and has now now made his triumphant return.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its employment summary numbers for July 2005, and things look good. While employment rates didn’t change, total nonfarm employment grew by 207,000, and jobless rate is down .5 percent to 5.o, compared to 5.5 percent at this time last year. Retail employment increased by 50,000 in July, bringing [...]

Jason van Steenwyck catches CNN’s Wolf Blitzer making an absurd comment regarding the road-side bombing that killed 14 Marines.

Michael Yon reports from an anti-terrorist operation in Mosul.
The Iraqi Police are a main target for local terrorists who wish to squash freedom. But intelligence is the primary means to disrupting terrorists, and we knew they were planning to attack key police officers early Monday morning. So we planned to ambush the ambushers. Rolling out [...]

Robert Samuelson’s makes note of one of today’s big non-stories: The absence of inflation:
“A year and a half ago, almost every forecaster thought inflation would be higher,” says economist Nariman Behravesh of Global Insight. One reason that higher oil prices haven’t yet crippled the economy is that they haven’t triggered a widespread jump in wages [...]

Wounded milblogger Chuch Z. has set up his voice-to-text software and is back blogging.
I experimented with Dragon Naturally Speaking a few years ago so I can sympathize with Z’s frustrations with the program. He seems to be mastering it pretty quickly, though, while my sandpaper voice and the Dragon just never got along with each [...]

Andy McCarthy at National Review Online has unkind but entirely accurate things to say about the renaming of the “Global War On Terror” to “Global Struggle Against Violent Extremism”:
So, the folks who brought you “compassionate conservatism” now offer “The Global Struggle Against Violent Extremism.” Perfect: A war that’s not called a war for fear of [...]