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Cleaning Up the Nation

Austin Bay:

If Air America were a conservative radio network its corrupt funding trail and cynical abuse of a poverty program would be front page news at the NY Times and full-time mega-scandal at

Rank Materialism

Freedom. I am now the proud new owner of a Gateway 6020GZ laptop, perfect for students and others with limited means. I can now go into a Starbucks or a Barnes & Noble and look like I'm doing some

Fallujah Fonda

Uh-oh. From the Telegraph comes this exciting news:

Jane Fonda is returning to anti-war activism and embarking on a cross-country tour to call for an end to US military operations in Iraq.

Acros

John Pilger: Partner in Terrorism

In an outrageous piece of terrorist propaganda appearing on the cover of today's New Statesman, John Pilger puts the blame for the 7/7 London attacks not on the terrorists, but rather on Tony Blair:

Terrorists in Ohio

The FBI nabbed another terrorist here in Ohio. Good on them. Nuradin M. Abdi, a Somali immigrant, is accused of planning to set off a bomb in a Columbus shopping mall (via LGF).

Columbus has a sizeable Somali population (the second largest in the US, according to one source), and they have been controversial from time to time. This item made a local splash last year.

Abdi is linked to Iyman Faris, a Pakistani, also from Columbus, who was sentenced last year to 20 years for plotting a terrorist attack.

Ohio is also home to Fawaz Damra, the indicted Cleveland imam.

I tend to think of Ohio as being comfortably off the beaten path when it comes to terrorism, but clearly this isn't the case. An attack on the "heartland", the home of Jacksonian America, would surely rile the American street. I guess this is part of their get the US to "start" a war against Islam strategy.

Anyway, I anticipate that the Somali and Muslim communities here will applaud the FBI's work and unconditionally condemn terrorism. Either that or they will complain that Abdi was unfairly targeted, that they are the victims of discrimination, and that there are legitimate grievances behind terrorism. Whatever.

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