All three major presidential candidates have suggested they'll close down the Guantanamo Bay prison when they take office The L.A. Times this morning suggests a number of them could end up in my back yard -- at Fort Leavenworth -- but that legal complications could ensue:

"Battlestar Galactica" is perhaps the smartest and most comprehensive artistic meditation on life in post-9/11 America that exists in all of popular culture. Also, it has sexy robots, which is pretty awesome.

I always get a little dizzy when this happens, but let me endorse this idea from today's Washington Times:

Every election is about "the future," to the point that candidates intoning about their "vision" for America is little more than a cliché of electoral politics. So what should the 2008 presidential election be "about"? Should it be about the candidates' biographies, their records of achievement, their character? Should it be about the failures, real and imagined, of the Bush administration? Should it be about the economy? How about the war?

CNN reports that "fewer than 1 percent" of the 28,000 commercial airline flights traversing American skies each day have an air marshal on board. Judging from the tone and the specifics of the story, CNN wants you to believe that terrorists may at any moment seize control of a plane and replay 9/11 at will because, absent an armed marshal, there is absolutely nothing you can do about it!

Is that so?