From the WSJ: Judge J. Michael Luttig, one of the country’s most prominent conservative jurists and once considered a likely Supreme Court nominee, has resigned from the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., to become senior vice president and general counsel for the Boeing Co. in Chicago.  In a three-page letter to President Bush today, Judge Luttig, a 1991 appointee of President George H.W. Bush, wrote of

ABC News has this interesting tidbit from the recent Mayoral race in Newark, NJ: Both Booker and James are black. But during the last election, James’ supporters criticized the light-skinned Booker as not sufficiently black. Some of that bitterness remained on Tuesday, as reflected by anti-Booker signs urging people to “vote black.” “Don’t waste your vote on folks who will not and cannot represent you!” said the signs, which were

Hamsher:  “So.  Did you read my latest post on that paste-eating moron, Goldstein?  The one where I suggest that perhaps his drug regimen has something to do with his frequent moods swings, his tendency to project substance abuse problems onto others and his proclivity for writing 15,000 word treatises in defense of poor comprehension?  Man, did I ever nail him!  In fact, this new progressive message a bunch of us

So.  I’m holding this fundraiser in order to afford the maintainence of this site while raising enough money for a down payment to move us into a bigger house by year’s end (we live in a rented duplex at the moment)—when what happens?  My landlord knocks on the door, tells me he’s lost his job, and that he’s going to have to sell the property. Which, given the obscene prices

The latest press release from FIRE, which continues to expose the anti-intellectualism of the modern academy that a host of progressives continue to insist is nothing more than a paranoid fantasy of classical liberals: Exposing a disturbing trend in campus censorship, Le Moyne College has fired its college newspaper’s adviser for not exercising more control over the student paper. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) joins the national

Please tune in today to “Hoist the Black Flag” on Rightalk. The show begins at 4:05 pm EST, 1:05 pacific. Today’s guest is novelist Andrew Klavan, whose recent piece in the LA Times, “Draft Hollywood,” explored Hollywood’s refusal to make a pro-war movie. Oh.  And sadly, I STILL don’t have the broadcast equipment, so I’ll be doing the show from a telephone.  Again.  Which explains my tinny, nasally voice.  And

John Hawkins takes a closer look at what serial al-Frankenhumper, Atrios (“OPEN THREAD!  BUSH IS A WANKER!  IBID!”), has described as the “fairly clear consensus” among the “liberal netroots” of what needs to be done to save this country from itself—a litany of policy ideas and initiatives that, as Hawkins notes, includes nothing “about illegal immigration, deficit spending, the Kyoto Protocol, or the International Criminal Court.” Similarly, Hawkins notes that

Allah:  “They threw Oreos at Michael Steele for being inauthentically black. What do you throw at someone who’s inauthentically deaf? Headphones?”: The newly chosen president for the nation’s only liberal arts college for the deaf is drawing protests from faculty and students, some of whom question whether she is “deaf enough” to lead their school. Last week, Jane K. Fernandes was named to succeed I. King Jordan as president of

Fonda:  “Well, I hate to sound all, like, petty and materialistic—and as you probably know, I’m very big into the whole sharing of ideas-thing, because I think creativity is best served by collaboration and the give-and-take you get with the genuine exchange of thought by those with truly artistic dispositions—but it kind of cheeses me off, to be honest, that this whole ‘Hookergate’ thing is getting so much media play. 

AJ Strata emails: [Patrick] Fitzgerald’s investigation appears to have learned two things: (1) somebody outside the WH and under SC protection leaked Plame’s name to the press, and (2) there is a mound of evidence there was no effort to attack the Wilsons by outing Plame. So why is this man still around distracting the nation? AJ draws on the latest filing by team Libby, which appears to single out