Saturday digest

- On Wednesday, the Iraq Study Commission will release a report that should be shelved immediately, if early indications provide any insight into what they're going to recommend, which is expected to be basically what amounts to a watered-down version of cut-and-run with buddy hugs for Syria and Iran. The once-and-future leader of Israel weighs in with a warning here.

Meanwhile, Dem Congressional leadership must be quaking in their boots at this warning, as here, a well-known Russian surveys the situation and Saudi Arabia is as much a wild card as ever.

- More on the US Airways/Muslim imam story, here.

- Here's an interesting look at how political correctness has infiltrated higher education.

- Jack Layton and Olivia Chow want to take "personal responsibility for the environment", so they've renovated their house. (Is sanctimony part of the NDP's DNA? It seems to come so naturally.) See here.

The best part is at 2:35 when she talks about how they've taken steps so that "rain water doesn't get wasted". Huh? How does one "waste" rain water?

- Two-thirds of respondents to a recent survey say the whole "Quebecois as a nation" thing is a bad call, while Coren says it's time to get over ourselves.

- Venezuela goes to the polls tomorrow, and this piece makes Hugo look like not that bad a guy, even if he does put state propaganda on food packaging.