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MUMBAI, India — DEVELOPING: Gunmen targeted luxury hotels, a popular tourist attraction and a crowded train station in at least seven attacks in India's financial capital Thursday, wounding 25 people, police and witnesses said. It was not clear how many of those were dead or injured, but Indian television stations are reproting at least 20 dead, while Reuters puts the number at 10. A.N Roy police commissioner of Maharashtra state, of which Mumbai is the capital, said several people had been wounded in the attacks and police were battling the gunmen. "The terrorists have used automatic weapons and in some...

MUMBAI: Terror struck the country's financial capital late on Wednesday night as coordinate serial explosions and indiscriminate firing rocked eight areas across Mumbai including the crowded CST railway station, two five star hotels--Oberoi and Taj. ( Watch ) At least 80 people were dead and 250 injured in the terror attacks, hospital sources said. Two terrorists were still inside the Oberoi Hotel and commando operation was on. Terrorists hijacked white police jeep near Metro cinema in South Mumbai. Firing was also reported near Maharashtra state assembly building in South Mumbai. Armed with AK-47 rifles and grenades, a couple of terrorists...

Gunmen stalked a hotel in Bombay looking for British and US passport holders during co-ordinated attacks across the city that have left at least 18 dead. A series of shootings and bomb blasts at luxury hotels and bars in the south of the city hit at least nine locations. Security sources said “a major terror attack” was unfolding. Shootings were reported in the lobby of the five-star Taj Mahal Palace hotel in the Colaba area of south Bombay and at the nearby Leopolds bar, a popular destination with western backpackers. Witnesses described pools of blood and bullet scarred walls at...

You have all doubtless seen the COEXIST bumpersticker on the rear of a car in front of you while driving through Madison or the East Side. Todd McMahon created a parody, substituting two of the symbols in the middle to make a point. Charlie Sykes posted the parody on his blog, and has taken flack from the Left for doing so. In the spirit of the blue bumpersticker, here is my suggestion:

The other day, I was driving through Milwaukee's own hip enclave and I noticed a strikingly high number of the very trendy "Coexist" bumper stickers slapped on the backs of the equally trendy hybrid cars. The stickers must be in vogue because I spotted them everywhere in this part of town.

Are you familiar with that bumper sticker slogan, COEXIST, where each letter is the symbol of a religion? The initial C is the crescent of Islam. I desire an animated gif that starts off as the slogan, then the C transforms into pacman and munches right down the line of religions. Be creative with the finish, maybe a belching pacman, lady pacman in a burka, show us your stuff!

"One could say that Osama bin Laden and these non-nation-state fighters with religious purposes are very similar to those kind of atypical revolutionaries that helped to cast off the British Crown," Eleven term U.S. Representative, Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), as quoted in the Toledo (Ohio) Blade, March 1, 2003 (Illus: Ethan Allen, leader of the Green Mountain Boys, saying, "Come out of there, you goddam old rat!" takes Ft. Ticonderoga from the British -- the first American victory of the Revolutionary War. It was a fine example of how rudeness to tyrants can save ammunition.) Astounding. Representative Kaptur thinks Al-Queda and...