Here's a quick roundup of some things I've been meaning to blog about, from the serious to the funny to the creepy. All concern the home front in one way or another, from the War on Terror to the deeper "War on Bad Philosophy" to... well, you'll see. * If you're worried about bioterrosim and the water supply, Signal + Noise has some reassuring news for you. * This is less reassuring. How an obscure PhD dissertation became a terrorists' treasure map. Suppressing this won't work. First, governments like the Chinese could duplicate it easily. Second, Moore's Law will make this kind of analysis more and more accessible in future. * If you missed Dan Darling's link to the TIME Magazine article on al-Qaeda's recruiting efforts in Canada, you missed something important. That's a very long undefended border you have there, folks. * Ali Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri, deemed an "enemy combatant" by President Bush, has filed suit in federal court seeking release from that status and from Defense Department custody. Phil Carter doesn't like his odds. * Speaking of subversion and enemies, the Saudis are on another academic shopping spree in the USA. Martin Kramer's suggestion on how to deal with this approach to buying universities' silence is first-rate, and deserves your attention. * LT Smash: "This is a mission statement for all Americans, and every person in the world who loves Liberty. This is why I serve." Works at home, too. * Porphyrogenitus blogs a great story aboput a California man who lived it. After getting really, really tired of the rampant left-wing ideology being pushed in his local High School, including one class explaining "that through America's history as a 'terrorist nation,' she brought upon herself the sinister attacks of 9/11," he decided to do something about it. It worked. If we want to improve our education system, this model needs to be copied elsewhere. * I bet high school blogger Lone Dissenter agrees, given her own (often hilarious) experiences. * Speaking of hilarious experiences, AccordionGuy has a set of cartoons for you that send up, in order, Liberals, Conservatives, and Libertarians. Great stuff. * Meanwhile Evan Coyne Maloney, the brilliant mind behind the guerilla video interviews with clueless and even Jew-hating "peace" protesters, has a great article called "The Great Media Meltdown And What Lies Beyond: Open-Source Media." He's not crying complete doom for major media, and his points are solid. * Good Lord, it's the million-cricket march! A mile wide, and 3 miles deep! Cannabilizing their dead! Covering entire houses! Nutritious! Not kosher, but nutritious. Apparently.