Q: What do you get when you cross Glenn Greenwald and Andrew Sullivan? A: I’m not quite sure, really.  But whatever it is, somebody needs to get it a Midol and a history book.  I touched on this in a brief reply to Greenwald yesterday (in his post, he calls me “one of the most intense enemies of American values,” which is true, if by “American values” Greenwald means “preening

Lest anyone accuse me of, you know, getting out in front of the news cycle.*

For those of you who have yet to see it, the internet is buzzing over this interview with former Army Ranger Jessie [in some accounts, “Jesse”] MacBeth, who—like a modern day Winter Soldier—spins the familiar anti-war tale of an idealistic young man who goes into service proudly and eagerly, only to become disillusioned by the way his own comrades-in-arms are directed to behave by a brutish US military command, who

Sometimes, when the remote control is that close to you, you just, you know, pick it up and use it. Sorry, but that’s just the way it goes. Fear not, though.  We’ll likely talk later.

Via the Tampa Tribune and AIR: Two Saudi men were arrested Friday after they boarded a school bus and rode to Wharton High School in New Tampa. Students on the bus became alarmed, as did the bus driver, who called ahead. Hillsborough County sheriff’s deputies met the bus at the school and detained the men. No one was injured and nothing out of line occurred on the bus, deputies said.

From Terry Hastings, via email: The Duke Lacrosse saga continues to play out in the media.  When guilt or innocence is finally established, will the media examine its own roll in shaping the direction the story has taken?  Thomas Sowell asks some hard questions.  With respect to the mindset that some blacks have re guilt innocence of the Lacrosse players — According to Newsweek, the young man at NCCU said