Jihadis: War on Terror Front Moves

Tomorrow’s Christian Science Monitor is reporting in a front page story that “coupled with intelligence finding that fewer foreign fighters are seeking to enter Iraq, as well as with postings from jihadist websites exhorting would-be foreign fighters to take up the fight in Afghanistan, the arrivals suggest that Islamist extremists are adjusting their international fight to hit the United States and the West where they perceive them to be weakest.”  Why do I think that Sen. Obama and the rest of the D’s will attack President Bush for increasing violence in Afghanistan without acknowledging this is a result of the success of Bush’s policy in Iraq?

Holy Brit!

The Washington Post is reporting that Fox News Washington Managing Editor Brit Hume is retiring, or at least semi-retiring. He will be stepping down from “Special Report,” but is “near a deal to continue with Fox in a senior-statesman role, not unlike that of NBC‘s Tom Brokaw, for roughly 100 days a year. Hume would be a senior political analyst, anchor for special events,
panelist on “Fox News Sunday” and occasional substitute for the host, Chris Wallace.” Media analyst Howard Kurtz, a CNN host when he isn’t writing for the WaPo, gets in a dig at Hume, who he says was “a former ABC White House correspondent who has never hidden his conservative views . . .” Yes, Hume is famously conservative, but probably only famously because that is so rare among the media. Hume was actually also famously known for being the fairest of D.C. reporters, even in the Clinton White House. “Special Report” is one of the best, if not the best, news and analysis programs on television, with most of that credit going to Hume himself. Fox News will have a difficult time replacing him.

When He’s Done With You, You Will Feel A Little Soros

A Reuters dispatch
reports “Billionaire investor George Soros said on Monday that the
crisis over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will not be the last . . . ” Is
that a prediction or a threat?