Tom Ridge: Al-Qaida is planning 'large-scale attack'

Despite the fact that we live under the cloud of a large scale attack, the terror alert banana remains a reassuring yellow.

While Smilin' Bill Frist has urged us that there is no need for 'panic or paralysis' (and, as he's a doctor, I'm sure he's using those terms in the clinical sense), I am dismayed to note that the MLB All-Star Game here in Houston has not been designated a 'National Security Event' like the Super Bowl or the RNC and DNC. Is it just me or is Houston, with its numerous refineries and chemical factories and extensive connections to the Bushies, just possibly a target. Sure, it's no NYC, but on the other hand....

By Tim