Sunday digest

- As terrorists in Iraq have enjoyed their most successful month yet, how far off the mark is that mock ad? Newsweek suggests that the terror organization may try to influence the upcoming US congressional elections through either an attack on American interests overseas or the issuance of another taped message.

Does anyone wonder which party Osama and friends would like to see control the House and Senate (notwithstanding the quiche-eating performance of the GOP on fiscal and social policy, of course, in between desperate, ill-advised moves such as this)?

In other related news, al-Qaeda has issued a warning to Canada designed to intimidate us into taking a cut and run stance in Afghanistan.

It won't work, despite Jack Layton's efforts to the contrary, which apparently include tagging the Prime Minister as a war-monger.

- Dalton McGuinty's Ontario Liberals hired former Clinton strategist James Carville to come and address a recent party gathering for a cool 50K. No doubt the NDP are going to bring this to the floor of the Legislature as they do whenever American political operatives are brought northward by right-leaning organizations. (Speaking of Clinton, I'm not quite sure how his ego is going to handle this).

- Impotence, ignorance and political correctness: the tragedy of the United Nations.

- Good to see that Iran is getting the attention it deserves somewhere (if not in the sex scandal-obsessed mainstream media) because it is they who are behind the anti-Western violence in Iraq and elsewhere across the Middle East.