Headlines from Laura Ingraham.

Visit the website of one of the few talk show hosts I can almost tolerate for three hours a day. (Laura, baby. You must cut down on the pet and nutrition talk. They are major league buzz kills.)

NOVAK ON DIGGS TAYLOR'S DECISION:
From Real Clear Politics: "The background of a federal district court declaring President Bush's national security eavesdropping unconstitutional was a conservative's fantasy. The judge, a former Democratic politician and civil rights activist, wrote what read more like a political manifesto than a judicial opinion. What's more, she was responsible for contributions to an organization that was a plaintiff in the case she decided." Read it.

This commie cow should be impeached and tried for treason. If convicted, she should be publicly executed.


SCREENING ILLEGALS BEFORE EMPLOYMENT:
From Cybercast News Service: "The immigration reform bills in the Senate and House share little in common, but one thing both chambers agree on is the need to verify potential employees' eligibility to legally work in the United States. Supporters of immigration control say an automated system to do just that is already in place and could be implemented nationwide soon." Read it.


NAZI ARTIFACT SALE -- WHO ARE THESE BUYERS?!
From The New York Times: "For more than 60 years, the scuttled wreck of the Graf Spee rested undisturbed in 65 feet of murky water just outside the harbor here. Now that fragments of the vessel, once the pride of the Nazi fleet, are being recovered, a new battle has broken out over who owns those spoils and what should be done with them." Read more. (Ack! A bad link! Say it ain't so, Laura. Here's a more interesting one with a German perspective.)

I would like to think these artifacts are going to museums and universities who will use them to teach future generations about the horrors of the late, unlamented century.

Silly me.

Why don't the Uruguayans sell the things to the highest bidders and then give the proceeds to a Shoah museum?



OBAMA TREATED LIKE ROYALTY IN AFRICA:
Dem rising star Illinois Senator Barack Obama was treated like a returning prince during a recent trip to his relatives' village in Kenya. Read the story.

Of course they love Senator Token in Africa. He is their kind of politician - a socialist kleptocrat.


The New Taliban
By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross & Kyle Dabruzzi
The Weekly Standard

When fighters the Radical Islamic Courts Union (ICU) seized the Somali capital of Mogadishu on June 5, analysts were immediately concerned that the country could become a haven for terrorists. Since then, the ICU's hold on the country has tightened. More alarming, the militia has come to more closely resemble al Qaeda's previous sponsor, the Taliban, with each gain it makes. After wresting control of Mogadishu from Somalia's interim government, the ICU's militias seized a number of towns. These gains have resulted in the Islamic militia controlling cities that stretch all the way to Somalia's border with Ethiopia. More important, these gains have been strategic in nature. The ICU now enjoys great flexibility in moving its militias and supplies, and is on the verge of controlling the majority of Somalia. In contrast, the interim government is holed up in the south-central Somali city of Baidoa, and appears increasingly vulnerable.