Perfect. While all the other media outlets dropped the ball on last week's report on the Florida vote, at least the Economist gets it.

Simon Garfinkel: How Not to Fight Terror. "It looks like Bush and Ashcroft are using September 11 as an excuse to clamp down on civil liberties, not as a wake-up call for solving these hard problems."

Washington Post: N. Alliance Sets Up Shop In Capital. "Three days after capturing this capital from the Taliban, the Northern Alliance is increasingly assuming the functions of a new administration, to the alarm of Western powers seeking to promote a broad-based government to end the country's recent history of civil war and factional feuding." This should not come as a suprise to anyone. The Northern Alliance was always operating in accord with its own agenda, which had little to do with ours.

New York Times: Suspicious Letter to Senator Tests Positive for Anthrax. Another Democrat gets an anthrax-laced letter. See a pattern?