Confederate Yankee addresses the second guessers (the majority of whom are non-British) of Operation Kratos, the London police policy of using head shots to kill suspected suicide bombers in an effort to save civilian lives—and he does so by detailing exactly how suicide bombings work, and why the London policy is more than simply appropriate, it is necessary:  “Jihad for Dummies:  A Non-technical primer” Personally, provided I’m convinced the police

From Townhall, this amusing bit from Howard Dean’s DNC Magic Misery Tour: After asking the students to donate money to the Democratic National Committee, [DNC Chair Howard] Dean said “one of the biggest problems in this culture of corruption that the Republicans brought to Washington, is they sold our government to the highest bidder. “If we want it back, we’ll have to buy it back,” Dean said. He also said

Will Femia of MSNBC’s Clicked links to my piece criticizing western leaders and media sources who provide rhetorical cover for terrorists, an argument prompted by London bomber Shehzad Tanweer’s purported admission to a cousin that “the abuse of Muslim prisoners in Guantanamo Bay” calls for “violent retaliation.” Muses Femia: Here at MSNBC.com we get letters about how talking about terrorists too much actually encourages them.  Are terrorists (or anyone) really

Or am I just reading too much WorldNetDaily before bed…?

From the AP: Ashtrays have been disappearing in cars like fins on Cadillacs, and so could smoking while driving in New Jersey, under a measure introduced in the Legislature. Although the measure faces long odds, it still has smokers incensed and arguing it’s a Big Brother intrusion that threatens to take away one of the few places they can enjoy their habit. “The day a politician wants to tell me

From the WSJ (subscribers only, so I’ll quote at length): In his two years on the appeals bench, Supreme Court nominee John Roberts has authored about 40 opinions, but it’s a one-and-a-half page dissent that has Ted Kennedy fulminating. The Senator from Massachusetts is outraged about a Commerce Clause case called Rancho Viejo v. Norton, which, in the Kennedy legal interpretation, threatens “Social Security, Medicare, the minimum wage” and the

1.  First, re-read my original post on “Why Rhetoric Matters”.  2.  Then, go here and read how that post is packaged and presented by a guardian of the “reality-based community.” Pay particular attention to how the author alters my terminology and, in a stunning display of intelletual ineptitude, manages to miss the entire thrust of the argument. 3.  Return here, scratch head / weep for the country, and discuss. ****

It occurs to me that I’ve yet to comment on the now infamous (and oft misrepresented) Tom Tancredo remarks concerning potential US military responses to a WMD attack on American soil—remarks that a number of rightwing bloggers (as well as just about every blogger on the left side of the ‘sphere, given the subject matter) have been quick to criticize—often quite forcefully. Thankfully, Juliette, Instapunk, Froggy, and Allah have saved

Blogging will of necessity be light today as I sit back and allow baseball and fresh air to act as a sort of mental sorbet, cleansing my brain of this bit of Atrios idiocy, in which the crowned prince of anti-Bush cant and his band of verbose cheerleaders manages to blame the shooting of a London terror suspect (who turned out to be nothing more than an illegal running from

I wonder if all those who’ve spent the last month wringing their hands over the Valerie Plame “leak”—in particular, those thousands upon thousands of progressives suddenly so concerned with protecting “covert” CIA agents and enforcing the Espionage Act that they’re willing to do so at the expense of the free flow of information inside the beltway—are going to express their outrage over this. BECAUSEOFTHEHYPOCRISY! Sure, it’s thinly sourced story—and the