Followups

* France Faces European Action after Roma Expulsions NYTimes After an acrimonious dispute over its expulsions of the Roma, France was told on Wednesday that it would face legal proceedings for failing to meet minimum European Union safeguards to protect the rights of the bloc’s citizens.

* Security: Update on German Terrorist Plot A clear and balanced report from Juan Cole on the plan’s goals and implications: The plot is alleged to have been hatched by young Muslim-German men who had been attending the same mosque in Hamburg where the 9/11 hijackers attended. … A Mumbai-style attack is inexpensive and logistically unchallenging. If the attackers are willing to die, they can shoot up hotels and malls and set off some bombs. Doing several cities at once would spread panic and is an al-Qaeda MO…. It can be said that such operations are hard to forestall and that also they are a comedown for al-Qaeda, since they don’t accomplish anything at all. You will note that Mumbai is doing just fine and PM Manmohan Singh declined to take the bait and go to war with Pakistan, as the Lashkar-i Tayyiba had hoped. The point of 9/11 for Bin Laden was to drag the US into Middle Eastern quagmires. Not everyone is as gullible as George W. Bush and fringe terrorist groups should be dealt with quietly and effectively, not with big multi-trillion dollar wars

* Tea Party Updates Poe’s Law says satire of the right wing is indistinguishable from the real thing. Which of these is satire? Christine O’Donnell asks why we don’t see monkeys becoming humans today if evolution is true; Christine O’Donnell puts out “Young Abstinence” comics for teenagers. Tough call….