Tuesday Roundup

I hope you all had a great Labor day weekend. Those in Florida and parts of the Gulf Coast, our thoughts and prayers are with you. Of course while Florida was looking for relief from Francis, in Southern California, it suddenly decided to become summer with high temperatures.

Lots of stories in the news, none on Russia since Rob already has a good write up of what happened and the likely response of Russia to those who hurt kids or those who supported or gave aid and comfort to those who hurt kids. Look for more blood to be shed.

George Will has a birthday column for ESPN, which is 25 today. I'm not a sports person (my wife watches football, I don't), but it is interesting on how sports salaries have increased over the last 25 years, and on the challenges ESPN can have on some marriages.

Two stories on Islam. The first is a short story, from ABC News, about those who convert from Islam to Christianity are often in fear for their lives. The folks who were interviewed for the story do not live in the Middle East or even Europe, but in VIRGINIA. Even in the US, those whose were Muslim and choose a different path are in danger, from "the religion of peace". The second story from the New York Times is about the Cult of Death that a minority of Islam holds and the carnage the rest of the world has to pay (in blood and treasure) because of the group. We (the rest of the world) need to confront this sub-sect of Islam and put an end to it. All Muslims who are not a member of this "Cult of Death" need to join the effort because they suffer as much if not more then non Muslims for the deeds of this group.

FrontPageMag.com has a good rebuttal to Timothy Noah's Whopper about Arnold speech at the RNC. It does put things into context, which is often missing in the media stories today.

Two stories on Bush today. Mark Steyn about how many in the media are projecting their views into the news and how it is likely to give them a nasty surprise in November (if Bush wins). At OpinionJournal.com, they are saying the election will not be close but "Bush will bury Kerry". As a Bush supporter, I can only hope so.

Finally, there are three stories about Kerry today. I don't hunt for pro-Bush or anti-Kerry stories, but the stories I have to share are not good news for Kerry.

Kerry is denying he is shaking up his campaign staff (always a bad sign this close to an election), but it does look that way. Also Kerry has shifted his focus from his experience in Vietnam and being a war hero to domestic items. He has been hurt by other veterans attacking him and his best bet is now domestic. Of course the August job report showing 144,000 jobs being added is not the news he was looking for. Kerry is also launching attacks about the Iraq war, calling it the wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time. But just a few weeks ago he was saying he would have done the same thing as Bush (attack Iraq) but do it better. The final story is from The American Thinker and is about "John F. Kerry attended a meeting of his Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) group in Kansas City in November 1971, where they considered a proposal to murder top governmental leaders". If this story develops legs, it will do more harm to Kerry.