Plane Terror Plot Thwarted  —  Police say they have disrupted a major plot to blow up planes in mid-flight with explosive devices smuggled aboard as hand luggage.  —  Sky News has been told the plan was to hit around a dozen planes over UK and US cities.  —  Police are said to have arrested 20 people …

Michael Moore starts a war for peace  —  The Democrat fringe has its scalp, and now it wants a stack of casualties.  This arrived in my Inbox this morning, and it is replicated on the web site of filmmaker/author/philosopher/ political scientist/media mogul/acrobat/beer taster Michael Moore:

REUTERS' IMAGE PROBLEM  —  L.A. blog unmasks Hezbollah propaganda  —  It's been a good week for Los Angeles' most controversial political Web site, Little Green Footballs, widely reviled by some because it takes global Islamist terrorism more seriously than, say, a Dick Cheney hunting accident.

Mike Wallace Says Iranian President an 'Impressive Fellow'  —  NEW YORK — Twenty-seven years after a chilling sit-down with Ayatollah Khomeini that was one of Mike Wallace's most memorable, the CBS newsman snagged an interview this week with current Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran.

Iranians among Hizbollah combat dead: TV  —  JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard have been found among Hizbollah guerrillas slain by Israeli forces in southern Lebanon, Israel's Channel 10 television reported on Wednesday citing diplomatic sources.

Multi-Use Buildings  —  Unbelievable.  —  The building that we saw in two different photos on July 24 and August 5 ... was actually photographed first on July 18: … Here's another July 18 photo.  (Hat tip: hcq.)  —  The two later photos with their captions:

Katrina homeless in search of trailers  —  CHALMETTE, La. - It has been 11 months since Hurricane Katrina hit and Janice Tambrella still does not have a home.  She doesn't even have a trailer of her own.  —  Tambrella is currently jammed in with 10 other relatives in a single trailer delivered to a luckier relative.

September 11 — what year? 30 percent of Americans don't know  —  WASHINGTON (AFP) - Some 30 percent of Americans cannot say in what year the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington took place, according to a poll published in the Washington Post newspaper.

SORRY, WRONG CAPTION  —  We wrote yesterday about the New York Times' publication of this pieta-like image from Lebanon:  —  The caption that accompanied the picture was: "The mayor of Tyre said that in the worst hit areas, bodies were still buried under the rubble, and he appealed …

Between Joe's Webheads, Stories Differ  —  I've spoken at length with the two men closest to Sen. Joe Lieberman's ((D/I?)  -CT) re-election Web site, joe2006.com, to understand at length what happened to the site yesterday morning.  Their versions appear to differ, although it's not immediately clear why.

Ned Lamont: Pink Diaper Baby With Silver Spoon In Mouth  —  MSM reporters repeatedly comment about how the anti-war Ned Lamont, now official Democrat Party candidate for U.S. Senator from Connecticut, is paradoxically a wealthy businessman.  —  If these MSM reporters had any research skills …

From Russia With Love?  —  Despite claims to the contrary, leaders in Tehran are apparently still pushing forward with research into uranium enrichment with the aid of laser technology.  A Russian engineer recently told SPIEGEL that Iran has received help from his countrymen with a program …

Press Briefing by Tony Snow  —  MR. SNOW: Good afternoon.  Let me get you apprised first of the President's day.  Also a couple of key issues I know you want to talk about.  I'll cover those first, and then we'll do questions.  —  The President this morning received his briefings from his national security team.

Prelude to War  —  Why is America waiting to be attacked by Iran?  Why do we sit on the sidelines while Tehran makes war on our ally Israel in order to provoke America to join the fighting, first against Syria and then against Tehran itself?  Why do we listen to the European appeasers …