Michael Barone on Elites' Spurning of America

Check out this very good article by Michael Barone on the supposed superiority of the elite liberals.

Zawahiri's Letter

This should be the biggest news of the week, a glimpse inside out enemies: the release of al Qaeda's second man's, Zawahiri, letter to Zarqawi, al Qaeda's man in Iraq. It should educate and remind the forgetful, the self-doubting, and the skeptics among us of what we are up against.

At least two key things he mentions is that the primary battlefield is in the media, which they are pretty successful with. And the other point is that Iraq is everything to them; however it goes, so it goes for them.

Download the letter from the National Intelligence Director's website.

Scott over at Powerline has some good commentary.
Austin Bay also is said to be good on the subject. (Hat tip: Michele Malkin)

Bush's Speech at National Endowment for Democracy

Bush's speech

John Podhoretz's commentary - 7 October 2005
Daniel Pipes' commentary - 11 October 2005 -- Pipes says Bush has ushered in the 3rd stage in civilization's war on the Islamofascists.
USA Today's list of the 10 foiled terrorist strikes

Goods on Harriet Miers

Marvin Olasky's post over at World Magazine blog is a very good starting place for information on the latest appointment to the Supreme Court. There is a lot of discouraging reactions throughout the blogosphere and conservative, but Hugh Hewitt, again, is upbeat and optimistic.


UPDATE:
It really is amazing how controversial Meiers is with CONSERVATIVES! You would have thought Bush appointed a Ginsburg clone. Hewitt and Medved have been doing the Lord's work though. And Ken Masugi at the Local Liberty blog has some sensible things to say:

We have a better view of Bush’s ambition for Miers in Senator Cornyn’s defense of her, calling her a justice who would bring the “dangerously out of touch” court “back down to earth.” This means not just replacing one justice with another but altering the public perception of the court as well. Hence Meirs’ faith plays a political role. To tame the Court we need a combination of skills: Thomas’s originalism, Scalia’s rhetorical brilliance, Roberts’ legal skills, and now Miers’ practical experience, producing a plain reading of the Constitution.