Quick Shots on the News

Some thoughts on the avalanche of breaking news items:

- Kudos to the authorities who foiled the airline bombing plot in England last week.

That includes our very own NSA who picked up the early chatter that started the investigation. The same NSA and surveillance who have been under fire by liberals for a year now. Democrats should apologize for yammering that the President's NSA surveillance program on people in the US who were talking with terror organizations was "illegal" and grounds for impeachment. Bush is doing the right thing. Democrats are undermining our security. Simple.

This foiled attack should bring it home that we are still at war

- Islamic Jihadists. That's who we are at war with. Not "terror". Let's name the enemy already.

Let's start showing pictures on TV. The airline bombers. The missing Egyptian students. Let's see the suspects. It will bring it home that Islamic Jihadists are our enemy.

- I think Joe Lieberman should step down from running from the Senate in Connecticut. He lost his party's primary. He shouldn't have - his opponent was a pawn of the far-left antiwar fringe. But he did lose. He should respect that and relinquish his seat. But, he won't because Senators see power as an entitlement.

Having said that, I hope he runs as an independent. His "independent" candidacy will split the liberal vote and give the Republican a chance to pick up a seat there!

- The Israel / Hezbollah situation is a mess. I don't have hopes for a UN-brokered cease fire working for any length of time.

I'm puzzled by Israel's actions. I support their self-defense efforts. But, I'm not sure what they accomplished if they stop now. Did they degrade Hezbollah's capability to hurt them enough? I don't think so.

- I think that the story of the missing Egyptian students should be looked at more. If the majority of a group of "students" who arrive here on a visa fail to go to there destination, it should be treated with utmost suspicion. It's suspicious. And, I don't understand how the FBI could come out immediately with a statement that they were not a terrorism threat. I don't buy it.

- We should build an oil pipeline in ANWR. Now.