From my wee brother, Thom: Cinderella is now 95 years old. After a fulfilling life with the now dead prince, she happily sits upon her rocking chair, watching the world go by from her front porch, with a cat named Bob for companionship. One sunny afternoon out of nowhere, appeared the fairy godmother. Cinderella said, “Fairy Godmother, what are you doing here after all these years”? The fairy godmother replied, “Cinderella, you have lived an exemplary life since I last... Read more
Newsweek is certainly to be commended for this piece, which allows some little sense of balance to the manipulative, Michael Moore-ish production now going on in Crawford, Texas. Holly Bailey and Evan Thomas bring us an unflinching story, gleaned from interviews with grieving families who have met with President Bush. Some support him, some do not, but none of the families report the sick sort of joviality and cold indifference with which Mrs. Sheehan now charges President Bush. Because the... Read more
This thing gets stranger and stranger. First Weldon made his charge and the 9/11 Commission, caught unawares and in the middle of a lolling, hot August said, “it never happened/we never saw it/yes, we saw it/yes, we saw it and remember vast details and Weldon has lied.” Now, Jim Geraghty at TKS wonders if the Mike Kelly from the Bergen Record in NJ has a scoop which will bring the 9/11 Commission back from the beaches yet again: For a... Read more
Time for Weldon to show what he has in his hand, or the story is gone. Please note: When a story can’t be proved, reasonable people walkback and (like Podhoretz) even suggest apologies may be in order. I wonder if John Roberts has gotten his apology from NARAL yet? Captain Ed is <a href="http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/005212.php"not as quick to backtrack as Podhoretz. He’s a bit skeptical that people who never saw a report/had no memory were able to suddenly remember with such... Read more
I’m always amused at these headlines. The Dems “DEMAND” Conditions on Social Security. They “demand?” They didn’t even want to talk about it – now they want to make “demands.” On the eve of Social Security’s 70th anniversary, Democrats said on Saturday they are ready to move toward revamping the financially troubled retirement program but warned against stripping away benefits to retirees and relying on private accounts for funding. “We have a moral obligation to stand up and protect Social... Read more
I recall about two years ago reading that AlQaeda wanted to go after shopping malls… Glad to see the vigilance. Read more
Some of my favorite gals, and a booming community of young religious. Good to see them getting the press. H/T: Thom. And some other thriving, “old-fashioned” orders full of young women: Active Carmelites Sisters of Life Eternal Word Franciscans of Renewal Benedictines Dominicans Capuchins Read more
WaPo reports: U.S. troops raiding a warehouse in the northern city of Mosul uncovered a suspected chemical weapons factory containing 1,500 gallons of chemicals believed destined for attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces and civilians, military officials said Saturday. The astonishingly on-top-of-things Ed Morrissey has managed to break it down, even as he travels: No one believes at this point that the chemicals predate the fall of Saddam. That would mean that the chemicals made it into Mosul either by... Read more
From James Taranto’s Best of the Web. Who offers the acknowledgement of Mrs. Sheehan’s terrible grief and recounts the fact that yes, President Bush has already met with her once and yes, she did offer one portrait of that meeting and then, lately, a very different one…once he brings the readers up to date, Taranto writes: What are we to make of Mrs. Sheehan’s demand for a second meeting with President Bush? She claims she wants an explanation of why... Read more
Robert Jamieson is no lover of George W. Bush, and he is against the war in Iraq. But his thoughts on Mrs. Sheehan are very like my own, and like Varifrank’s and Mohammed’s – there is an aura of theatrics, sly dishonesty-by-omission and more than a little manipulation and ugly exploitation going on in her vigil. Mr. Jamieson writes civilly, very respectfully, about both Mrs. Sheehan and President Bush, and he cannot be construed as some “right wing nutjob.” I... Read more
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