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1224pm EST. University College Hospital in London is now on “high alert” as London police search for today’s terror bombing suspects. All four bombing locations have been cordoned off. Intelligence sources telling Fox News’ Simon Marks that the mastermind of the 7/7 bombings is not in custody and still at large.
The latest from the Guardian [...]

New London bombings. Tony Blair to speak at 10am EST. [1025amEST. Still waiting. Scroll down for rolling updates]
South London reports:
Terrified Tube passengers were evacuated from trains as police dealt with “incidents” at three different London Underground stations.
Emergency services were also called to a bus in east London amid reports there was a device on board.
Passengers [...]

Encouraging news: Baby Torres, whose mom, Susan, suffered a stroke at 17 weeks pregnant and remains in a coma, has reached a milestone. AP reports:
A brain-dead pregnant woman on life support has reached the milestone in her pregnancy where doctors believe the baby could realistically survive outside the womb, giving her family renewed hope about [...]

So, last night during the SCOTUS press conference, you may have noticed the facial expressions of President Bush and John Roberts’ wife. Glenn Reynolds did.
So did the readers at Daily Kos.
Why the faces? Because John Roberts’ adorable little son decided to break dance during the momentous event. Dirty Harry has the hilarious photos. Here’s one:

(*Update* [...]

Trust you’ve seen the Drudge flash on fearless Ann Coulter’s comments about John Roberts. Ann’s full piece is up at her website.
It’s titled “Souter in Roberts clothing,” and concludes:
He has given us a Supreme Court nomination that will placate no liberals and should please no conservatives.
Maybe Roberts will contravene the sordid history of “stealth nominees” [...]

My column today lists just a few of the reasons why.
Ben Johnson at FrontPage Magazine is on the same wavelength.
In related news, check out this report on an animal rights zealot allegedly planning a jail breakout.
See also London Telegraph coverage of American animal rights fanatic and University of Texas in El Paso professor Steven Best, [...]

Counterpunch, a widely-read left-wing political newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, published a rambling interview the other day with America’s nuttiest professor, Ward Churchill.
It seems I’ve gotten under the blithering professor’s skin. When the interview first appeared, Churchill was quoted accusing me of “blatant plagiarism” (screenshot via Shock and Blog) and lifting [...]

On the left, the NYTimes editorial board warns that if it doesn’t get a Sandra Day O’Connor clone, we will all end up breathing dirty air, working in salt mines, and handing over our children to do slave labor!
Mark Coffey reacts to the NYT’s editorial here.
Meanwhile, Manuel Miranda, who launches a SCOTUS column for the [...]

The father of 9/11 lead hijacker Mohammed Atta applauds the 7/7 London terrorist attacks. Via CNN:
CAIRO, Egypt (CNN) — The father of one of the hijackers who commandeered the first plane that crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, praised the recent terror attacks in London and said many more would follow.
Speaking [...]

Tony Mauro of the Legal Times reported in February 2005 that SCOTUS nominee John Roberts’ votes “have mainly fallen on the conservative side, but not always:”
Last December, in United States v. Mellen, Roberts ruled in favor of a criminal defendant who challenged his sentence in a fraud case. Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson — yes, an [...]

***See update: John Roberts***
So, it’s not Clement.
Then who?
The others:
There was early speculation about Judge Edith Clement of the U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans, but Republicans indicated later she was not the nominee. Another female candidate thought to be under consideration was Edith Hollan Jones, who serves on the same court.
Among the women being [...]

…at the town square in Toronto because she has been deemed “degrading to men or women through sexual stereotyping,” but Kate at Small Dead Animals points out that Toronto has no problem with these folks prancing around the same gathering place. Warns Kate: “Not work safe. (Not lunch safe, for that matter.)”

Wanna know how Washington State University teaches students to respect free speech? Mark Tapscott has the scoop.

Do not blog about the “hotness” of your students. You will get fired.

WaPo says an announcement may come as early as this afternoon.
The Supreme Court Nomination Blog has all the lowdown on rumored frontrunner Edith Clement. (Update: Rolling list of Clement’s noteworthy opinions.)
Jonathan Adler comments on lefty Nan Aron’s wishes.
Christopher Flannery likes Justice Alice Batchelder.
ProLife Blogs takes a look at the two Ediths.
FOX News reports [...]

The American Association of Law Libraries recently held its annual luncheon, during which:
Barbara Lah of the New Mexico School of Law submitted a resolution on behalf of the Social Responsibilities SIS, calling for the withdrawal of U.S. military forces from Iraq and for a shift of U.S. government budgetary priorities to, among other objectives, provide [...]

Ugh. The Plame games are making me ill. And it’s not just the rhetoric on the left that is causing nausea. I am now seeing many of my friends on the right invoke the “John Kerry did it” card to pooh-pooh Rovegate.
See here, here, and here, for example.
I addressed this incident back in April: Did [...]

“Pentagon to Go Forward With Military Tribunals,” reports the Los Angeles Times. “Pentagon to start Guantanamo military commissions,” reports the Financial Times. “Military tribunals to begin for Gitmo detainees,” reports the Washington Times.
These headlines imply that military tribunals will, for the first time, be initiated for the detainees at Guantanamo Bay. But as the [...]

The Hill’s report that Alberto Gonzales will not be the next Supreme Court nominee has many conservatives breathing easier.
Tom Goldstein at The Supreme Court Nomination Blog stands by his prediction that the pick will be Priscilla Owens.
Matthew Franck at Bench Memos notes a Fox News report that Sen. Robert Byrd is getting pre-approval prerogative. Say [...]

The thought of 48-year-old Katie Couric in low-rise jeans and a metallic silver thong (scroll down, 7th item under “Sightings”).
Classy.

My friend Rep. Tom Tancredo is in hot water for his remarks about how we should react in response to an Islamist nuclear attack. Jack Kelly, Captain Ed and Hugh Hewitt respond. Hugh says Tancredo’s statement “is the most irresponsible statement any American official can make.”
Rep. Tancredo’s remarks were most certainly unwise, and he should [...]

Check out photos of pro-American activists showing their love in South Korea via Gateway Pundit and Denmark via Power Line.
Here’s one more via Yahoo:

Pro-U.S. protesters wave American and South Korean flags at a war memorial housing a statue of U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur in Incheon, west of Seoul, Sunday, July 17, 2005. Anti-MacArthur demonstrators marching [...]

Check out the latest edu-follies in San Bernardino, Calif. Apparently, ebonics has been resurrected and is now a considered a civil right:
Incorporating Ebonics into a new school policy that targets black students, the lowest-achieving group in the San Bernardino City Unified School District, may provide students a more well-rounded curriculum, said a local sociologist….
…Ratibu Jacocks, [...]

For those of you who have been following the story of the McCain-Feingold-inspired crackdown on Seattle’s conservative talk radio, Ryan Sager has an update:
The gas-tax opponents who were slapped for not reporting radio commentaries as “in-kind” contributions to their ballot-initiative campaign have fired back.
In complying with the judge’s order, they’ve made new campaign-finance filings listing [...]

Several readers write with a reminder that today is the 36th anniversary of Mary Jo Kopechne’s death.
Myrna Blyth’s remembrance from last year is worth re-reading.
R.I.P.
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Update:
Gullyborg notices some macabre advice on the Massachusetts government website today. (Update 500pm EST. The page has been pulled, but it’s cached here.)
Ankle Biting Pundits weighs in.

The United Nations is trying to figure out how to get its paws on the Internet and take over governance of cyberspace.
The good news, for now, is that it can’t decide on how to do it. Via Declan McCullagh:
A United Nations working group has published a long-awaited report that effectively challenges US supremacy over internet [...]

Rep. Frank LoBiondo of New Jersey.
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Related:
In defense of Boston
Soros, sports pork, and stupid Republicans
No, you tone it down
The GOP’s anti-Gitmo squad
What do you call a squishy Republican?
Shame on President Bush

Andrew McCarthy has the lowdown:
You heard that this was the crime of the century. A sort of Robert-Hanssen-meets-Watergate in which [Karl] Rove is already cooked and we’re all just waiting for the other shoe — or shoes — to drop on the den of corruption we know as the Bush administration. That, after all, is [...]

There has been lots of buzz about the tragic Los Angeles Police Department shootout last week that left a father and his toddler daughter dead. Cop-bashing is in full swing.
Heather Mac Donald, as always, brings you the real story at The Immigration Blog.