I think it is way past time that we follow Kos’ lead and “starve the story of oxygen” – by that I mean starve the NY Times of the one thing it needs to survive: money.

Michelle has details and reader reactions.

It’s time to call for a national boycott of all NY Times advertisers.
It’s time for bloggers to stop linking to the NY Times.
It’s time to call for all responsible and patriotic Americans to drop their NY Times subscriptions (Natalie Maines can keep hers).
It’s time to call for the prosecution of all NY Times employees and sources involved in leaking the classified information.

It’s time for this administration to draw a line – here and no further. Treason will be prosecuted and if this isn’t treason, I don’t know what is.

**UPDATE**

Greg was kind enough to create the boycott graphic toward the top of the sidebar. Feel free to copy and use if you are so inclined.

He wants to know why an Arab company is held to a different standard than a British one? Well, fine. Here are 19 of them. Notice the lack of Brits?

You know, I am perfectly willing to entertain the idea as long as I know the details, how the deal was reviewed, what questions were asked, what answers given, and what security measures have been put into place. But this “you tell me why this is a bad idea” crap isn’t going to fly.

No, Mr. President. YOU tell ME why this is a good idea, then we’ll talk.

(h/t Michelle Malkin)

“But on that September day we were unprepared. We did not grasp the magnitude of a threat that had been gathering over time. As we detail in our report, this was a failure of policy, management, capability, and – above all – a failure of imagination.” – 911 Commission Report, Public Statement Chair and Vice Chair

Expose the Left (or the blogger formerly known as The Political Teen) has the video of 9/11 family member Debra Burlingame’s appearance on Hannity & Colmes yesterday talking about the NSA wiretaps and the Patriot Act.

9/11 Family Member, Take Back the Memorial cohort, and dear friend Debra Burlingame has an extensive must-read op-ed in today’s Opinion Journal on “The Wall”, FISA, and the duplicitous coverage of the NSA “syping” controversy.

Ms. Burlingame is simply brilliant, and dead-on. Here’s just a sampling:

NBC News aired an “exclusive” story in 2004 that dramatically recounted how al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar, the San Diego terrorists who would later hijack American Airlines flight 77 and fly it into the Pentagon, received more than a dozen calls from an al Qaeda “switchboard” inside Yemen where al-Mihdhar’s brother-in-law lived. The house received calls from Osama Bin Laden and relayed them to operatives around the world. Senior correspondent Lisa Myers told the shocking story of how, “The NSA had the actual phone number in the United States that the switchboard was calling, but didn’t deploy that equipment, fearing it would be accused of domestic spying.” Back then, the NBC script didn’t describe it as “spying on Americans.” Instead, it was called one of the “missed opportunities that could have saved 3,000 lives.”

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The old laws that would prevent FBI agents from stopping the next al-Mihdhar and al-Hazmi were built on the bedrock of a 35-year history of dark, defeating mistrust. More Americans should not die because the peace-at-any-cost fringe and antigovernment paranoids still fighting the ghost of Nixon hate George Bush more than they fear al Qaeda. Ask the American people what they want. They will say that they want the commander in chief to use all reasonable means to catch the people who are trying to rain terror on our cities. Those who cite the soaring principle of individual liberty do not appear to appreciate that our enemies are not seeking to destroy individuals, but whole populations.

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The public has listened to years of stinging revelations detailing how the government tied its own hands in stopping the devastating attacks of September 11. It is an irresponsible violation of the public trust for members of Congress to weaken the Patriot Act or jeopardize the NSA terrorist surveillance program because of the same illusory theories that cost us so dearly before, or worse, for rank partisan advantage. If they do, and our country sustains yet another catastrophic attack that these antiterrorism tools could have prevented, the phrase “connect the dots” will resonate again–but this time it will refer to the trail of innocent American blood which leads directly to the Senate floor.

My empahsis. Read the whole thing.

(h/t Michelle Malkin)

“Grim Countdown”

From Iraq the Model:

I met one friend on the way and when I asked him what would his vote be he said that he hasn’t decided yet “if I voted yes I would be approving some articles that I don’t agree with and if I voted no we would go back to where we started from…” he said and that was really refreshing because this guy who used to believe in conspiracy theories and stuff like “what America wants is what’s going to happen” now feels that his vote can make a difference.

Once you have it and understand it, freedom becomes part of your soul. Letting it go is not an option. The Iraqis appear to be learning this in great number, and their neighbors are learning too.

May freedom’s fever spread to the soul of the Middle East.

They got ‘em all!

But wait a minute – I thought we were creating MORE terrorists and inflaming the Muslim world?

My gut tells me that Americans and a great many others around the world may finally get their heads back in the game when it comes to the GWOT. I don’t know why – call it wishful thinking if you want. But it strikes me that things have been very unfocused of late. Maybe the attacks in London this morning will change that.