Quick Hits

My thoughts on the Mary Cheney issue are here.

Pearl Harbor attack remembered. The Greatest Generation is leaving us quickly. More here.

Infidels help their sworn enemy.

Debra Burlingame has suffered entirely too much.

Pray or die. ROP Watch in Somalia:

ANYONE who does not pray five times a day will be beheaded, an official in a southern Somalian town declared yesterday, adding that the new edict will be
implemented in three days' time.

Shops, tea houses and other public places in Bulo Burto, 124 miles north-east of the capital, Mogadishu, should be closed during prayer time and no-one should be on the streets, said Sheik Hussein Barre Rage, the chairman of the town's Islamic court.