UPDATED

The New York Times runs a front page story on bank data being used to help find terrorists. This is published in the print edition this morning and online last night.

Last night, the Attorney General announced indictments against 7 suspected terrorists in Miami who are thought to have been planning attacks on both the FBI’s Miami offices and the Sears Tower, America’s tallest building, in Chicago.

The conspiracy theory? They were sitting on the story, waiting for something that could be construed as favorable to the administration, so they could publish this as counter-point.

At the press conference today with Tony Snow (transcript will be and video are available here later), the questions were all about the banking leak, nothing about the Miami 7.

Someone Bob Sellers* on Fox News noted that the bank story was front page in the Gray Lady, but the Miami 7 story was buried somewhere in the 20s.
(*thanks to Kim Preistap @ Wizbang who also noted this)
Shows you where their priorities lay doesn’t it?

UPDATE! Kim Priestap has a good roundup on the banking story here.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
– Clarence Thomas

He’s 58 years old today. Still young.

I was reading one of my daily reads, The Capitol Fax Blog (Illinois politics from Springfield) and Rich had mentioned this Sun Times article about a poll of “500 registered voters” who think it’s better to make Wal-Mart and other “big-box” retailers pay out the nose for unskilled labor even if it keeps badly needed jobs out of the area. One of the poll suggestions, that respondents heartily agreed with, was that employees should be guaranteed $10 an hour plus $3 an hour in benefits for 5 hours a week.

I emailed the story to DJ Drummond, telling him that this poll seemed so “rotten you can smell it from Denmark”. He agreed with me and fisks it marvelously here at Stolen Thunder and here at Wizbang! Politics. Go read it.

Rich, thanks for bringing this up. Go read the comments at Captiol Fax Blog on this issue – there are so many Wal-Mart haters out there…

Bernard’s mother is in bad health and is in need of prayers to help her in her journey to be at our Lord’s side.

Read his story here.

Bernard, your mother and your family will be in our prayers.

and his youngest grandchild when that child was quite young. We all miss you Daddy.

Yesterday was my birthday, but I was born on Father’s Day. First child too. That man became a father on Father’s Day.

It’s an anniversary of my 21^st birthday, but I’m not telling which anniversary it is!

Happy Birthday also to: Joe Piscipo, Newt Gingrich, Venus Williams, Barry Manilow, and even Jack Murtha…

Dean Martin was born on June 17^th, as was Igor Stravinsky.

Queen Elizabeth is celebrating her “official” birthday today. The Queen’s real birthday is April 21^st and she just had her 80^th. It is traditional in England to celebrate the monarch’s birthday in June because the weather tends to be better.

MC Escher was also born on June 17.

More of his artwork can be found here.

Other Birthdays on June 17^th can be found here.

It’s Flag Day and the Army’s Birthday! Fly your flag proudly!

No Fitzmas this year or any year. Poor, poor rabid dems…

Story here.

Zarqawi is dead – local Iraqis and associates revealed his location.

Bill Roggio has more at the Counterterrorism Blog.

The ministers for National Security, Defense, and the Interior were sworn in today.

Wizbang! Politics … starring: Lorie Byrd, Alexander K. McClure and D.J. Drummond! Yipee the gang is together again… Jayson is busy earning a living and hasn’t joined…. yet….