I typically like Jonah Goldberg’s columns, but today’s effort, “Gale-Force Exaggeration:  Katrina’s other consequence,” is a feel-good porridge of glancing recrimination and affected, world-weary “realism”—one that inadvertantly points up the media culture’s complicity in driving news rather than reporting it, as well as its tendency to circle the wagons and appear circumspect in the face of public dissatisfaction, when what it should be doing is taking a good, hard, honest

Sister Toldjah does some Googling and finds a not unsurprising discrepency in media coverage of two concommitant racially-charged incidents involving elected officials.  Interestingly, Rangel, it should be pointed out, is a much higher profile figure—he’s been a proponent of re-establishing the draft (though, presumably, only because he knows such a movement is destined to fail), and is a regular on the political chat shows—whereas this is the first I’ve heard

Delay and two others indicted on conspiracy charges.  Delay has long held that the charges, leveled by Ronnie Earle, the partisan DA of Travis County, are false and politically motivated. By GOP rules, Delay will be forced to step down from his House leader role.  David Dreier (R-CA) will take over House leadership. Two things:  First, if Delay is guilty, he deserves to be punished—though campaign finance laws are largely

Fouad Ajami, writing in the WSJ’s Opinion Journal, examines Sunni fear over imminent Shiite emancipation. From “Heart of Darkness”: The drumbeats against Iraq that originate from the League of Arab States and its Egyptian apparatchiks betray the panic of an old Arab political class afraid that there is something new unfolding in Iraq–a different understanding of political power and citizenship, a possible break with the culture of tyranny and the

Interesting piece by James Piereson in the Oct 3 Weekly Standard examining the growth of Leftism in the academy (a topic addressed here on many occasions).  From “The Left University”: The left university, according to its self-understanding, is devoted to the exposure of the oppression of the various groups that have been the West’s victims–women, blacks, Hispanics, gays, and others that have been officially designated as oppressed groups–and to those

I’ll be a guest this afternoon on Ace and Karol’s “Hoist the Black Flag”. Show begins at 4:00 EST.  First guest is Andrew McCarthy. You can listen online at Rightalk.  And if you’d like, you can call in and make smarmy remarks: 1-866-884- TALK (8255). Hope to hear from some of you then.

Me: “Where have all the flowers gone?” t-shirt guy: “ROT IN HELL, WARMONGER!”

From CNN: Al Qaeda in Iraq’s No. 2 operative was killed during a raid by coalition and Iraqi forces, a U.S. Defense Department official said Tuesday. Abu Azzam, a “significant” figure in the al Qaeda network in Iraq, was slain early Sunday in Baghdad during a joint operation, a military official spokesman in Iraq said. Azzam had a personal relationship with terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and held senior positions

…sure, people laugh at my mustache now.  But back in the 80s, this bad boy was banging weathergirls and 20/20 interns three at a time.  And I didn’t hear any of these same jealous jackals laughing then, you can bet your ass on that…

From Bloomberg News: Michael Brown, the former head of the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency, defended the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina before a congressional committee, saying some of the criticism was “not valid.’’ “You can’t always believe everything you read in the newspapers or see on television,’’ Brown told the House Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation and Response to Hurricane Katrina. Brown resigned from FEMA on Sept.