In “The Big Picture(s),” I noted the case of Bilal Hussein, an Iraqi stringer working for the Associated Press with a history of taking staged photographs of Islamic terrorists, who was detained by the US military as a security threat in April 2006. Today comes word that the US military plans to seek a criminal charges against Hussein in an Iraqi court and — as Michelle Malkin notes — the

Nothing to see here. Move along. A lawyer representing a former police officer suspected in the disappearance of his wife said Monday he does not believe his client will face charges stemming from the investigation. Speaking on NBC’s “Today” show, lawyer Joel Brodsky also criticized the media for their coverage of Drew Peterson, who resigned as a Bolingbrook police sergeant after his 23-year-old fourth wife, Stacy, vanished three weeks ago.

Wha? Three boys, ages 8 and 9, were being held Monday in a detention center on charges of kidnapping and raping an 11-year-old girl near a suburban apartment complex, officials said. The alleged attack happened Thursday and the girl’s mother reported it to authorities Sunday, Acworth police Capt. Wayne Dennard said. “The victim said they were playing outdoors and the girl was forced into a wooded area where she was

Hat tip to Taranto: A bill that could make it illegal to glance at a naked neighbor is moving forward in the City Council. . . . Council Member Peter Vallone Jr. said he introduced the bill to fight back against perverts, such as people who stand at the bottom of a flight of stairs and look up women’s skirts. . . . “The drafting of the language of this

Hitchens: Keeping all this in mind, it nonetheless does begin to look as if Iraqis may in fact have started to recover command over their own destiny, and also as if America may have helped them to do so. The surge is only a part of this story. Quite obviously, if the Sunnis of Anbar Province had not of their own volition turned on the hideous forces of al-Qaida, then

Everybody’s doing it! They have no souls!

Well, except maybe rumridden apple cider. Or cans of pumpkin pie filling clogging up the pantry. And of course, those Durkee’s onion straws in the cylindrical can. But other than that…

Dr. Helen has up a post about the nightmare of Thanksgiving in the politically-divided extended family unit. Stories, advice, exclamations regarding detested dishes are hereby all solicited.  Oh, and tips on etiquette, of course.  We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the napkin rings.

Mostly unsolicited. But sometimes from royalty. To wit, this, from the proprietor of the third funniest blog in the universe (source: Wizbang People’s Choice Blog Awards, 2007): Dear Mr. Goldstein: I have written a rave review of your performance piece “How To Guarantee That I Will Never Be Offered a Better Job at a Big Name School.” You can read it here: link Take care, Jon Swift http://jonswift.blogspot.com Without having