Glenn Reynolds has returned with thanks to the replacement bloggers and asking them to continue on through the election. I think that is a great idea. I have enjoyed the additional voices on Instapundit during the week.
Although, Nikita Demosthenes doesn’t agree.
Here’s a link to a partial transcript of the new Bin Laden video.
(From: LGF)
UPDATE: Belmont Club has the transcript as well as commentary on the video.
UPDATE II: Here’s an interesting take from a person who is in Afghanistan commenting on Roger L. Simon’s blog.
UPDATE III: More on this topic.
Protein Wisdom, INDC Journal and the Daily Recycler present: The Choice.
Bin Laden is a fan of Michael Moore.
Charles Johnson gives an excellent reason to vote for George Bush:
After being so certain for the past three years that Osama bin Laden had been atomized by the blast of a daisy cutter in Tora Bora, I admit to some disappointment that he’s still consuming oxygen and frightening small children.
But look on the bright side. Instead of never knowing the truth, now we may get to see this creature captured or killed for good and all.
If Bush is re-elected.
Is this the next “This Land”?
(From Virginia Postrel)
Republican vigilance about keeping illegal voters from voting is democratically equivalent to Democratic vigilance against Republican attempts to suppress the legal vote. Republican vigilance has the semi-intended side-effect of suppressing likely Democratic votes. And huge Democratic registration and GOTV drives have the semi-intended side-effect of canceling out a large number of Republican votes with illegal ballots. I bet I can tell from your party affiliation which you think is worse.
Voter fraud is similar to voter intimidation. That’s the conclusion Will Wilkinson comes to as he looks at legitimacy and integrity in the democratic process.
And Bill Hobbs has an archive of incidents of reported and suspected election fraud.
Alexander Cockburn writes that John Kerry will disappoint his anti-war supporters, if he is elected.
Like Jimmy Carter back in the 1970s, President Kerry will be well aware that what shoe-horned him into the White House was an entirely negative public emotion, hostility to George Bush. Just as Kerry consistently disdained his eager and all-forgiving left supporters before November 2, he’ll redouble his public and private displays of rejection thereafter, contemptuously wiping Michael Moore’s moist kisses from all his cheeks. The constituencies President Kerry will be eager to placate and to satisfy will be exactly the ones he has courted the whole of this election year: the Neocons in Washington, and the bankers in Wall St.
(From Hit & Run)
I hope this never happens to me.
After delaying its release, ABC News has aired portions of the video tape in which a man claiming to be an American member of al Qaeda threatens future attacks on the United States. I am inclined to think this is just pre-election saber rattling by an al Qaeda drone to scare Americans into voting for John Kerry.
Donald Sensing thinks it was intended as an audition or practice tape, and adds that the delivery leaves something to be desired.
And, I am glad to see Donald Sensing back.
