I didn’t, but then my mind doesn’t go that way. If I were a truly dastardly person, I would have anticipated this new low as soon as I saw this article. But I guess you have to be a certain sort of person to think continual poison is the best way to help heal the divisions within our nation. Some – many – news outlets have insisted on calling the survellience of people in contact with Al Qaeda a “domestic... Read more
Sigmund believes that Ted Kennedy, asked about this letter would likely say, “er..no.” Read more
Instapundit links to it at The Volokh Conspiracy: Quick, Someone Call the American Library Association: Over at Crooked Timber, Kieran Healy has obtained library records that identify the reading habits of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito. Can a Firestone Library Privacy Protection Act be far behind? But…but…I thought accessing someone’s library records was, you know…bad…and an invasion of privacy and stuff… Just amusing, is all. It’s amazing what’s tolerable when political expediency enters the picture. UPDATE: Reader Andy prompts me... Read more
In so far as the church calendar was concerned, the season of Christmas ended yesterday, with the Baptism of the Lord. – yes, we move quickly from the Epiphany and the appearance of the Three Kings and right on to Jordan and Jesus telling John the Baptizer to baptize him, even over John’s objections…kind of like when a Catholic says, “do we really have to do that bow during the Credo, father?” And the priest shrugs and says, “it’s in... Read more
From NRO’s The Corner: I HATE THE SENATE [John Podhoretz] There. I said it. Every Senator needs to encounter Harpo Marx, who will cut off their ties, eat their gloves and spray them with seltzer, which will lead every Senator to say, “Why, you….” whereupon Harpo will blow his little pocket horn a couple of times. Don’t forget the pie fight. Read more
:::SEE UPDATE BELOW – the Breeder named the dog before Kennedy bought him – END UPDATE::: Professor Bainbridge wonders if there is something Freudian about the name Ted Kennedy gave to his dog, or even in his choice of pet, a Portugese Water Dog. He writes: Was the choice the result of an utter lack of self-awareness? Or is the Senator giving us all the finger? I doubt he’s that self-aware. But the question reminds me of what Buster wrote... Read more
I’ve been battling a flu for the past day or so – got a headache, chills, joint pain, swollen glands – the whole enchilada. So, I’ve been just leaving open windows to various stories, blogs and links I have wanted to share with you folks or comment on, and planning to do, at the very least, a round-up to include them all. Some of it is important stuff, like the list of 40 Democrat Senators who took $$ via Jack... Read more
Reader Miquel, and Sigmund were both nice enough to advise me of what I had missed: The Anchoress has just passed the 1 million mark in hits since I started tracking in December of 2004 – so, in just a little over a year! This is far, far beyond any expectation I ever had when I started up. What were my expectations? Really, I had none. I still have no ambitions for the blog beyond maintaining my status as a... Read more
Whatever happened to Louis Freeh? He disappeared for a few years, came out with a book that was supposed to be a big story…and disappeared again, very quickly. I mean…REALLY quickly. How odd. Read more
Just scratching the surface THE FORMER IRAQI REGIME OF Saddam Hussein trained thousands of radical Islamic terrorists from the region at camps in Iraq over the four years immediately preceding the U.S. invasion, according to documents and photographs recovered by the U.S. military in postwar Iraq. The existence and character of these documents has been confirmed to THE WEEKLY STANDARD by eleven U.S. government officials. …The discovery of the information on jihadist training camps in Iraq would seem to have... Read more
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