VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: “How odd (or to be expected) that suddenly intelligence agencies, analysts, journalists, and terrorists themselves are attesting that al-Qaeda is in near ruins, that ideologically radical Islam is losing its appeal, and that terrorist incidents against Americans at home and abroad outside the war zones are at an all-time low—and yet few associate the radical change in fortune in Iraq as a contributory cause to our success.”

Doesn’t fit the narrative.

GERMANY AND JAPAN ON FOOD AND FUEL: “German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she will push G-8 leaders at this year’s summit in Japan to come up with a common approach for combatting the rise in global food prices. Merkel says action needs to be taken to ensure that agricultural areas are not converted to produce biofuels. . . . Fukuda says he agrees that we ‘need biofuels that do not threaten the production of food.'”

HMM. THIS A.P. STORY by Deb Riechmann says that Rove and Libby were behind the Plame leak:

McClellan was ordered to say that White House aides Karl Rove and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby were not involved in leaking Plame’s identity. Later, a criminal investigation revealed that they were.

Silly me. I thought it was Richard Armitage.

OUT OF TOUCH:

One of the several reasons why the mainstream media have consistently underestimated the significance of the Trinity/Wright/Pfleger story is that, to a considerable degree, conventional reporters and editors tend to agree with Rev. Wright’s critique of America. When Wright said, “God damn America,” reporters thought he’d gone a little too far but didn’t necessarily disagree with the underlying sentiment.

Could this contribute, in any part, to shrinking circulations, ratings, and payrolls in the industry?

FIGHTING PROSTATE CANCER with tomato powder.

IS AL QAEDA DISINTEGRATING? The bitter ideological squabbles of Islamic jihadists are following in the footsteps of the philosophical arguments that fractured Communist comrades. Confusion to the enemies of civilization!