Light blogging for today and perhaps for the week. Quite aside from my own health situation, my FIL suffered a mild stroke over the weekend. MRI is going on as I write…we’ll know more later, but it’s unlikely that I’ll be doing much writing. A few things I read that were pretty good and you might enjoy: Cathy Seipp at NRO This screenwriter, a Hollywood Republican, essentially commits career suicide in this piece. Melanie Morgan spent time with the troops... Read more
In this report. Johnson alluded to a forthcoming caravan scheduled to arrive in Crawford next Saturday after snaking through the southwest from San Francisco. The event, called “You Don’t Speak for Me, Cindy,” is being led by a mother who has a Marine son. Heh. Cindy Sheehan’s name and picture have been repeated literally tens of thousands of times in the past two weeks. But this reporter couldn’t even bother to find out the name of this “other” military mom.... Read more
Via Hugh Hewitt, it seems that the UK police are claiming to have foiled a major Al Qaeda plot, thanks to codebreaking. SCOTLAND YARD believes it has thwarted an Al-Qaeda gas attack aimed at ministers and MPs in parliament. The plot, hatched last year, is understood to have been discovered in coded e-mails on computers seized from terror suspects in Britain and Pakistan. … The encrypted e-mails are said to have been decoded with the help of an Al-Qaeda “supergrass”.... Read more
This is your basic delightful surprise – when I clicked on Michelle Malkin today, I found Betsy Newmark who is doing a turn guest blogging for Michelle. She has a terrific post up on how the msm is Badmouthing the Economy, which is a subject I’m thrilled to see someone writing about. I had posted a little something on the subject here but I know my limitations. Betsy has included breakdowns on just how negatively the press has reported on... Read more
Went over to Michelle Malkin’s to read the part three of the continuing-to-unfold investigation (by Malkin and Brian Maloney) of Air America’s shady financing. Turned out today’s installation is at Radio Equalizer, and it’s a doozy. Turns out AA’s funding problems seem to have been built into the venture’s very creation, and the unions are being as shortchanged as everyone else. As Ed Morrissey writes in his extensive look at Malkin and Maloney’s work, “pass the popcorn, this is really... Read more
Go read her righteous wrath. It’s just excellent. Go. Read it! Read more
I read this and it reminded me of what I heard as I was driving today. Flipping channels I fell on Sean Hannity, whom I do not ordinarily listen to (way too yappy and repetetive). What caught my ear was his condolence to a gentleman who said he had buried his son at Arlington in May. Hannity was talking to a man and a woman, both of whom have lost their sons in Iraq. And they said that they have... Read more
I know I was flabbergasted to read this as Michelle Malkin keeps up with all things Air America: David Lombino of the New York Sun updates yesterday’s article about MultiCultural Radio Broadcasting’s lawsuit against Air America/Piquant. This morning Lombino reports that the $255,754 lawsuit first reported on by Brian Maloney and myself two days ago is part of a larger attempt by MultiCultural to collect more than $1.5 million it says Air America owes it. That’s in addition to the... Read more
As you’re reading this, National Honor Society member Caity Swanson, 18, of Audubon, N.J., is likely cranking out one . . . more . . . pushup . . . under the stern eye of an Army drill sergeant at Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo. Princeton University senior Ross Williams, 21, is finalizing his plans to check out of the Ivy League and into the Marine Corps. And Congressional Award winner Asher Strassner, 18, just shipped out from his home in... Read more
In today’s NY Times Paul Krugman writes: In his recent book “Steal This Vote” – a very judicious work, despite its title – Andrew Gumbel, a U.S. correspondent for the British newspaper The Independent, provides the best overview I’ve seen of the 2000 Florida vote. And he documents the simple truth: “Al Gore won the 2000 presidential election.” Two different news media consortiums reviewed Florida’s ballots; both found that a full manual recount would have given the election to Mr.... Read more
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