The airport in Glasgow, Scotland, was evacuated after a flaming car ran into the terminal.
Here is the entire AP story via BBC available at this time:
GLASGOW, Scotland — Witnesses said a motorist tried to ram a Jeep Cherokee in flames into the main terminal building of Glasgow airport Saturday, reports said.
The British Broadcasting Corp. [...]

It really has been slim pickings lately for good news stories but I chuckled at the way it is described by James Lileks.
There is no news today. We’ve run out. Sorry; come back tomorrow. We’re expecting a shipment around noon, but we can’t guarantee it’ll be Grade-A news – could be that weird stuff packed [...]

Someone is determined to terrorize London and who knows where else?
LONDON, England (CNN) — As authorities were investigating an explosives-packed car discovered outside a nightclub near Piccadilly Circus on Friday, a second vehicle was found in London that had similar explosive material inside, security sources said.
The second car had been parked underground near Trafalgar Square [...]

This video stirred emotions in me which had been dormant for a very long time. It reminded me of a time (and I was one of these kids) when another war became unpopular in this country due to politics and how our returning military members were treated.
From the site which posted and composed the [...]

Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority leader Harry Reid have said they will announce a new plan to end the Iraq war, to which I say, Just defund the darned thing and get it over with! Stop playing games and be the transparent Congress leaders you promised in the last election.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi [...]

Yesterday the Supreme Court rejected Louisville, Ky., and Seattle, Wa., diversity plans because they were based solely on race for school assignments but the Court left the door open for using race in limited circumstances.
The court split, 5-4, with Chief Justice John Roberts announcing the court’s judgment. The court’s four liberal justices dissented.
The districts “failed [...]

People in the Haymarket section of London, which is close to Picadilly Circus, a place with restaurants, bars, etc. noticed a Mercedes that had crashed into some trash cans and the driver running away.
They called the police who discovered the car was laden with gas containers and a large number of nails.
British police thwarted an [...]

When General Petraeus goes before Congress in September to give his assessment on the situation in Iraq, it might serve him well to bring along Omar from Iraq The Model.
I will post the first and second paragraph of his most recent piece but I paid particular attention to the latter as it says in few [...]

While Lewis I. “Scooter” Libby is still waiting to hear from the appeals court whether or not he can remain free on bail while awaiting his appeal the Bureau of Prisons has issued an inmate number to him.
For years he was known as chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney and assistant to President [...]

The Senate voted 53-46 to defeat cloture on the Immigration bill. The clay pigeon is now a dead duck.

From Breitbart news:
The White House, moving toward a constitutional showdown with Congress, asserted executive privilege Thursday and rejected lawmakers’ demands for documents that could shed light on the firings of federal prosecutors.
President Bush’s attorney told Congress the White House would not turn over subpoenaed documents for former presidential counsel Harriet Miers and former political director [...]

I am often conflicted on the issue of the death penalty, however, this is one time I would gladly stand with the Kurds and witness the final moments in the lives of these truly evil men.
‘Chemical Ali’ to be hanged in Kurdistan
Saddam Hussein’s cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as “Chemical Ali,” and two other regime [...]

Yesterday the question was asked what is a conservative and what is a liberal.
I do not claim to speak for all conservatives and I won’t even attempt to speak for liberals because I have never been a liberal by my definition, which may be wrong. I’ll leave that definition to Ayschlay or Guss to [...]

To all those “conservatives” who proudly cast their votes for President Bush twice and are now calling him names because he supports the immigration bill (as proposed it’s a bad bill), you can take heart because it seems some of the senators you are also bashing and have declared war on are not going to [...]

Isn’t it a shame that we could once again see a rogue prosecutor, fueled by politics, be responsible for the reputation and career of a man being ruined? Time will tell if Ronnie Earle managed this case in the same manner as Mike Nifong did his.
Court refuses to reinstate charges against DeLay
The Texas [...]

Well it’s official. Tony Blair whom I have come to admire greatly is no longer Prime Minister of England. I would have expected nothing less from this man than the gracious exit he made.
I will miss his eloquent speeches, both those he gave here in America and ones we were shown from Parliament. [...]

The Iranian government gave its citizens a two hour notice of gas rationing of 100 liters of fuel a month.
I’m no expert in the metric system, but I think a liter is somewhere over a quart. This would translate to about 25 gallons of gas a month.
At least 12 petrol stations have been torched [...]

One reason so many companies go out of business these days is that they are not offering a product the people want, or they are not offering a quality product the people want.
Conservative talk radio has been a staple for many years now and now we are hearing from various Democratic senators that we should [...]

Big Mo made a comment today that it seems there are no real statesmen in our country today.
I happen to agree with that and will take it another step and say that Al Qaeda had us pegged when they called us a paper tiger.
We left the people in Vietnam high and dry so we could [...]

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair submitted his resignation to the Queen in a twenty-five minute closed door meeting today and then drove to his constituency in Northern England to resign as a lawmaker and is expected to take up his post with the Quartet of Mideast Peace Mediators.
Mr. Blair has been a very good [...]

I’ve been reading some conservative web sites and I thought our country had just been attacked.
I had to have a portrait taken for our church directory and on the way back the host of the talk show on at the time must have had every vein in his head and neck bulging to the point [...]

The Anchoress is asking for help for a family which certainly seems to be in need and also for a good friend.
It is the type of help which I am certain will be offered by many of us who read, comment and write here at “J’s.”

Not much time for commentary but this piece linked to from Drudge Report is something any animal lover should indulge in. The accompanying pictures make me wish I had the courage to do what this man does.
The king of the jungle doesn’t frighten the lion whisperer
Animal behaviourist Kevin Richardson has such an intimate [...]

Michael Yon is not a newspaperman or reporter hired by any news organization. He has gone to Iraq and been embedded with units to report on what is going on there, whether it’s good or bad news for us.
Here is a teaser from his latest dispatch:
On 19 June American forces sealed off Baqubah and [...]

59 year old Carlo Ventre was testifying in an Italian court about the death of his girlfriend, whom he was accused of killing, when he said he didn’t feel well and died of an apparent heart attack.
Ventre had been testifying calmly for 10 or 15 minutes about the first fights he had with girlfriend Toni [...]

There hasn’t been much news lately that has excited me . A hit piece on the administration is commonplace these days. Republicans and Democrats at each others throats in Congress is becoming a yawn and all the polls on endless subjects just leave me feeling empty. The Presidential race beginning immediately after [...]

Former French President Jacques Chirac will be questioned in the next few months over corruption scandal dating back to the days he was mayor of Paris.
Former French President Jacques Chirac is to be questioned in the coming months over a corruption scandal involving fake jobs and linked to the former conservative political party he headed, [...]

Despite other stories on this site this morning I am going to attempt to not Bush-Cheney bash, but tell something else of what’s going on in the world.
A six-year old boy (estimated age because birthdays are not kept track of in Afghanistan) was told by the taliban to put on a belt and when he [...]

Solacegirl asked a question in one of the threads about whether or not we have heard Chavez has warned Mexico about a war with the U.S.
What I have been able to find is this article.
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez urged soldiers on Sunday to prepare for a guerrilla-style war against the United States, [...]

Why this case was ever heard at all is beyond me, but a man who had attained the position of a judge sued a Korean couple and their son who own a dry cleaners because they lost his pants and he wanted to wear those pants to court the day he was sworn in as [...]