My post of my personal thoughts about Tony Blair is still up from last night, but I have a noteworthy stand-alone update to deliver.  You may recall my comments (and Sir Giuliani's) about the former British Prime Minister's moral clarity and vision.  Well, by happenstance, Suzanne Fields in a Townhall.com column dated today wrote - and I'm clipping for the time-challenged:

"If you had told me a decade ago that I would be tackling terrorism," he wrote in the Economist magazine, in an essay titled "What I've Learned," not long ago, "I would have readily understood, but would have thought you meant Irish terrorism."

Actually, what he learned was that getting the Irish Republican Army to put down its guns and renounce violence was considerably easier than getting the Islamists to do the same. He learned that "international politics should not be simply a game of interests, but also of beliefs, things we stand for and fight for." Not an easy sell in a spectacularly fractured world.

And I use the word safe to mean spends a lot of taxpayer money for no good reason. I am not even going to attempt to comment on this… I am just glad we are not running a deficit or anything.

Here is the office press release.

EPA $100K grant to help make nail salons safer for patrons and workers in King County

Release date: 06/27/2007

Contact Information: Running Grass, EPA/Seattle 206-553-2899, grass.running@epa.gov ot Tony Brown, EPA/Seattle 206-553-1203, brown.anthony@epa.gov

(Seattle, Wash - June 27, 2007) – Both patrons and staff of nail salons in King County, Washington, will soon breathe a little easier, thanks to a $100,000 EPA Collaborative Problem-Solving Grant. The grant was awarded to the Environmental Coalition of South Seattle (ECOSS), as part of EPA’s Environmental Justice Program. The grant awarded to ECOSS is one of 10 awarded to community-based, non-profit organizations across the country. Each received $100,000 EPA Environmental Justice Grants by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

From Townhall, Rich Galen has some good comments.

Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-Ca) said on Sunday that she thought it would be a good idea if the Congress would pass a law bringing back what used to be known as "The Fairness Doctrine."

First some history to understand 'what' the Fairness Doctrine is, or more accurately,  what it was.

On Fox News Sunday this past weekend, Feinstein, according to Broadcasting & Cable Magazine said that "talk radio is one-sided and 'explosive.' She said it 'pushes people, I think, to extreme views without a lot of information.'"

Which sounds much like she's describing the Senate Floor debate on the immigration bill, but maybe that's just me.

The basic law covering the use of radio waves in the United States - including everything from radar to your local disc jockey - is built on the Communications Acts of 1934 and 1937 which, in turn, were based on the Radio Act of 1927.