“Sen. Joseph Lieberman’s former top aide, working as an Enron lobbyist, met three times with the senator’s staff and tried unsuccessfully to arrange a meeting between Enron’s chairman and Lieberman – now leading an investigation of the oil giant,” The AP is reporting. “Lobbyist Michael Lewan served three years as Lieberman’s chief of staff and remains a political adviser, but the relationship won’t affect the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee inquiry,

Justin Somebody, at anti-war dot something-or-other, thinks war bloggers are a homogeneous bunch — and borderline evil, to boot. Oh, and racist. Really, really racist. By comparison, clearthinking anti-war Justin — as a guy who runs a site called anti-war dot something-or-other — is himself quite unique. And racially sensitive. Really, really, racially sensitive. Among other “See? Aren’t I unique and racially sensitive?” insights and revelations you’re likely to cull

“‘A leading financier of the al Qaeda terrorist network has “turned himself in” at the airport in Kandahar, potentially providing a bonanza of intelligence information on the group,’ CNN reports, citing ‘U.S. military sources.’ The unidentified man is in U.S. custody but is not currently considered a detainee.” [link via WSJ “Best of the Web“]

Alex Knapp over at Heretical Ideas is absolutely right: There

“The Taliban Smear,” by The Weekly Standard’s Terry Eastland, highlights yet again the disturbing trend among liberal opinion makers of attempting to tar conservatives with the “Taliban Party” brush. This week’s culprit? The New York Times’ Bill Keller, who — in a story assessing the careers of Jesse Helms, Strom Thurmond, and Phil Gramm — writes “that they harnessed their collective century of seniority to the Taliban wing of the

Jonah Goldberg, speaking for those in the punditry with even a modicum of good sense, sums up the Enron affair: The unspoken scandal of the Enron scandal is that the scandalmongers are boring us to death. That’s not to say this isn’t a big, possibly criminal, mess, but until someone can find a little more political there, I’m done with it. Quite. I’ve been debating the Enron “issue” with a

Arutz Shiva (Israel National News) reports of the lynching of a 70-year old Israeli man in Bethehem Tuesday. The man, who also held U.S. citizenship, was found in a soccer field in PLO-controlled Beit Sachur, his body badly beaten. According to the report, The victim entered Bethlehem with an Arab acquaintance, who apparently reported the lynch to Israel security forces. Lieut.-Col Sharon Levy, commander of the Bethlehem District Coordinating Office,

U.S. intelligence agencies helped Israel track down a Palestinian ship that tried to smuggle a large supply of weapons obtained from Iran, according to U.S. intelligence officials,” The Washington Times reports. “The intelligence assistance was considered vital in Israeli military efforts to pinpoint the exact vessel carrying the arms, which was captured in a daring commando raid earlier this month, said officials familiar with the effort. “‘Our assistance was crucial,’”

In his latest “Impromptus” column, The National Review’s Jay Nordlinger has a great bit on The New York Times and it’s seemingly (seemly?) unbalanced C-Dub elevatin’: I believe I mentioned in a recent column

A bedtime story… The university where many in the protein wisdom crew teach prides itself on it’s newfangled techiness — its cutting edge “laptop communities” and online classroom “experiences” — not to mention its insistence that all teachers maintain (workable) websites and develop technology-laden lesson plans and “teaching tools” (which usually translates to clumsily constructed PowerPoint presentations of age-old lectures, or wriggling GIF email icons). In fact, our university’s marketing