It sounded a bit too good to be true that British police had been able to spot and kill a suicide bomber in the subway. It turns out is was. The victim of the shooting was Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, of Brazil, believed to be an illegal alien working as an electrician in London.
The [...]

Some interesting answers in a poll by Sky News/Communicate Research.
Almost all - 91% - were against the bombings of July 7, but 2% agreed with what the suicide bombers did.
Around 88% thought there was no justification in the Koran for the bombings, but 5% thought there was.
The interviewees were asked to respond to the statement: [...]

Toronto banned Miss Universe. Not that such lunay would be beyond a good chunk of the Democratic party.

Is British left-wing daily The Guardian employing a radical, pro-caliphate Islamist journalist?

Former Boston Herald sports columnist (and now apparently former Boston University instructor) Michael Gee allegedly posted this gem on sportsjournalist.com last week:
“Today was my first day teaching course 308/722 at the Boston University Dept. of Jounralis (sic). There are six students, most of whom are probably smarter than me, but they DON’T READ THE PAPER!!! [...]

Senators Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and John Cornyn (R-TX) have introduced a conservative bill meant to toughen immigration control by increasing interior enforcement of immigration laws, requiring illegals already in the U.S. to leave and then apply for legal status in five years, and imposing heavier penalties on employers who hire illegal immigrants. The bill will [...]

The initial reports of the latest anarchist-initiated violence in San Francisco seemed oddly septic, with “protesters” (or maybe they were “demonstrators”) attacking two police officers. Michelle Malkin has a clarifying update.
Now I’m just waiting for ACLU to sue the cop for interefering with the forward movement of whatever object hit the officer in the [...]

Hurl is not impressed by a William Raspberry column in Washington Post:
Earlier today I read a Washington Post column by William Raspberry titled No Clarity on Iraq, but I think what it clarifies most is the fact that the Left in America just doesn’t “get it.” Like all arguments and articles I have read [...]

Arid is the mind that is watered by politically correct thought showers.

Expect more of this around the nation:
Boston City Council President Michael Flaherty said yesterday that Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s efforts to spur development of Fan Pier do not go far enough, and he again called on the city to consider seizing the South Boston waterfront property using its eminent domain power.
Flaherty originally suggested taking the [...]