Below The Beltway

Andrew Sullivan, who has been a strident opponent of torture of War on Terror detainees, has this to say about the Hamdan decision
The ruling clearly states that the interrogation methods currently authorized by Rumsfeld and the CIA are unlawful. There’s also a warning against the over-broad executive interpretation of Congress’s Authorization for the Use of [...]

First there was the bizarre interview with Matt Lauer, now Britney appears to be channelling Demi Moore with her appearance on the cover of Harper’s Bazaar
LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) — Oops, she lost her clothes.
A six-month pregnant Britney Spears has posed nude for the cover of the August issue of Harper’s Bazaar magazine and [...]

Several bloggers are making the argument that the Supreme Court’s decision today in the Hamdan case striking down the Bush Administration’s plans to use military tribunals to try Guantanamo detainees is, effectively, a surrender in the War on Terror.
For example, Oak Leak writes at Polipundit
This morning, the United States of America signed the instrument of [...]

The Supreme Court has ruled that the Bush Administration’s plans to try so-called “enemy combatants” held at Guantanamo Bay under military tribunals is unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court today delivered a stunning rebuke to the Bush administration over its plans to try Guantanamo detainees before military commissions, ruling that the commissions are unconstitutional.
In a 5-3 decision, the [...]

Brad Warbiany has a two-part post up at The Liberty Papers on the issue of what makes a government legitimate.
In the first part of his essay, he looks at the proposed Constitution for the European Union and compares it to our own Constitution:
If the EU wants to write a successful constitution, it must be written [...]

KipEsquire is celebrating the two-year anniversary of A Stitch in Haste. Congratulations.
Which reminds me that my own one-year anniversary will be coming up on Tuesday. Gifts, of course, are not required, but would be appreciated.

Reporting on last week’s Heritage Foundation 24 Symposium, Timothy Carney writes at NRO about what the popularity of Fox’s 24 means for the War on Terror:
Make-believe antiterrorism and real antiterrorism have some things in common and many things different, but they matter to one another in this respect: What Americans watch on TV about counterterrorism [...]

From the Washington Post comes news of what may be the return of people power in China:
SANZHOU, China — For 24 hours, thousands of rampaging farmers here unleashed their rage over confiscated farmland this month — holding local officials hostage and, clubs and bottles of acid in hand, forcing a band of private security guards [...]

Even the mother of dead terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi:
this burqa is very hot. filthy LA traffic! I am sitting in a boiling hot Prius with some crazy lady named Laurie David. She lent me her blackberry and she is taking me to some expo and i am getting very tired. I would like some water. [...]

And the English are to blame:

ENGLAND’s massive army of World Cup fans is drinking Germany dry, it emerged yesterday.
Breweries warned beer could run out before the final because of huge demand from our supporters.
In Nuremberg, organisers revealed 70,000 England fans who flooded the city drank 1.2MILLION pints of beer - an average of 17 pints [...]