Quick hits:

• TNR: Army has silenced Beauchamp; Army: No, we haven’t

• Pakistan: Concern over nukes as al Qaeda camps empty
  Bill Roggio: As the security situation in the Northwest Frontier Province continues to deteriorate and President Pervez Musharraf's political stock continues to drop, the US military intelligence community is "urgently assessing how secure Pakistan's nuclear weapons would be in the event President Gen. Pervez Musharraf were replaced." Meanwhile, the Taliban and al Qaeda have dispersed operatives from the training camps in the Northwest Frontier Province and are preparing to fight on their own terms.

• IBD: Jihad On Our Shores

• US Admiral Denies Bear Buzz
  Baldilocks: He-said, he-said: PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii: The U.S. Pacific Fleet commander said Russian bombers never got within 300 miles (500 kilometers) of Guam this week and did not fly over the U.S. territory as a Russian air force general claimed. ...

• Newtroots vs. netroots
  Don Surber: Newt Gingrich has a plan for Republicans to keep the White House after next year: Do like Nikolas Sarkozy and bypass the media. Shades of Ronald Reagan. ...

• Video: Newt calls for special session of Congress to address criminal illegal aliens
  Allahpundit: Not a hope in hell, but that’s not the point. The point, obviously, is to force the issue of criminal illegal aliens onto the table and make the GOP field commit themselves to doing something about it. Don’t expect the media to help in any way; if pressure’s to be applied here, it’ll have to come from the blogs and talk radio. From our lips to Rush’s, Hannity’s, and Ingraham’s ears. ...

• Valour-IT in San Antonio
  Fuzzybear Lioness: Last weekend was the 2007 Soldiers' Angels Conference, and the highlight of the event for Angels was a party at the Brooke Army Medical Center's (BAMC's) Fisher Houses in which 78 Valour-IT laptops were distributed to wounded Soldiers and Marines. This brings Valour-IT's total laptop distributions to over 1200 in two years, and an additional 22 laptops are on standby at BAMC. ...

• Dirty Bomb Threat In New York
  Ed Morrissey: New York City has deployed radiological detectors throughout the subway system and at bridges and tunnels tonight in response to a threatened terrorist attack. The city has not raised its alert status yet, but the attack was specific for tonight ...
• The NYC Dirty Bomb Threat
• Academics Refine Dirty Bomb Strategy