A day to remember. Here are a few select links to quality blogs:

Juliette Ochieng, who takes the opportunity to draw your attention to a very worthwhile charity;

Hootsbuddy's Place;

Kate McMillan;

Tim Worstall;

and Donald Sensing.

And of course there was another milestone speech from George Bush who it seems has found the right tone and content to bring across the challenge we are facing today:

These militants are not just the enemies of America or the enemies of Iraq, they are the enemies of Islam and they are the enemies of humanity.

And we have seen this kind of shameless cruelty before, in the heartless zealotry that led to the gulags, the Cultural Revolution and the killing fields.

Like the ideology of communism, our new enemy pursues totalitarian aims.

Its leaders pretend to be an aggrieved party representing the powerless against imperial enemies. In truth, they have endless ambitions of imperial domination and they wish to make everyone powerless except themselves.

Let's see where we stand with regards to the al-Qaeda strategy and the overall jihadist threat. This weekend I will take a closer look at a new analysis to which I was alerted by a reader and which will tie in nicely to the Bush speech.