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This might be the blogosphere's best tool evah: Google Blog Search. Don't search everything, just search blogs. Nifty. More handy info on the GBS beta here, including details on the new search operators....

I must say that I've watched more TV in the last week than I'd probably watched in about the last, oh, year or so. In fact, the reason I'm still up now is because I'm waiting to catch the 11:00...

Universities urged to root out extremism

Universities must root out extremism on campus as part of the war on terror, Ruth Kelly, Education Secretary will say in a speech.

Here's a radical new idea from across the pond: universities to actively monitor and crack down on extreme radicalism in order to help in the terror war.

Ms Kelly is expected to tell the organisation's annual conference: "Higher education institutions need to identify and confront unacceptable behaviour on their premises and within their community. "They should be alert and be unafraid to set their own boundaries - within the law and with the law in support - in consultation with their own community and the wider community. "That means informing the police where criminal offences are being perpetrated or where there may be concerns about possible criminal acts.

What a concept. Sound to me like she gets it.

I'm going to write a personal check for $55 tomorrow, the amount I've received via PayPal for the Sheriff's Relief Fund. I'm also thinking about just matching whatever all of you have donated for my own personal contribution. That should...

Yahoo News reports this on the upcoming Roberts nomination vote:Since Democrats don't plan to filibuster, they must decide if it's worth casting a symbolic vote against the 50-year-old Roberts, knowing they can't stop his confirmation and that Bush will soon...

Rush Limbaugh points out that some Republicans become weak kneed when confronted with the media scandal:We just heard from the office of Florida Senator Mel Martinez. The American Spectator is reporting today in their Prowler column the following story. With...

New York Times:Afghans turned out eagerly to vote today in their first democratic parliamentary elections in 35 years, expressing hope for a better future and for a government that will be answerable to the people, despite a number of scattered...

Bush signs BRAC plan

WIth Presidential approval of the BRAC report, it's all over but the shouting & Ellsworth survived the process.

President Bush on Thursday endorsed a plan for closing 22 major military bases and reconfiguring 33 others, leaving their fate to Congress.

Bush had until Sept. 23 to either accept the entire report from an independent commission and send it to Congress, or return it to the commission for further work. The report will become final in 45 days unless Congress acts to reject it in full. In previous rounds, lawmakers never have rejected reports, meaning communities probably have little hope of a reprieve for their bases.

Likewise, bases left off the BRAC closure list, have little to fear at this point. Aside from the economics of the situation, the Chief believes that the strategic and military factors were the only ones that should have been significant in the final decisions. In the cases of Ellsworth, and the Naval bases in Maine and Connecticut at least, the Chief had NO doubt that this was the case, as did the commissioners, resulting in the positive outcome for South Dakota.

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