Johnny bin Walker, the American Taliban-cum-Al Qaeda gunman, won’t be charged with treason by the U.S. government, Attorney General John Ashrcroft revealed moments ago. Even though Walker admits he knew of the 9/11 terror attacks against the U.S, and even though he nevertheless pledged his services to Usama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network (he even volunteered for advanced training), none of the charges leveled against Walker carry the death penalty.

Some interesting conservopundit columns tackling the Enron fray today — all of them seizing on the trope of frothing Dem “overreach” in one way or another. In addition, The National Review’s Jonah Goldberg even goes so far as to deconstruct the claim being floated by campaign finance reformers that the Enron collapse vindicates the CFR agenda: All

… Clearly WorldNetDaily thinks so: […] According to the latest findings, the two top al-Qaida executives [Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri] have most probably gone to ground somewhere in Saudi Arabia, one of the Gulf emirates or East Africa. The discovery that al-Qaeda was being allowed to escape through Iran prompted President Bush

The Weekly Standard’s Bo Crader compiles a host of links to help you track down all your Usama needs. So if you’re into topical politi-kitsch, you can attack your “favorite” Islamofascist villian with… 1) OsamaPinLaden.com (voodoo) 2) Osamabinladenpinatas.com (sticks) 3) wipewithbinladen.com (fecal matter; urine) 4) poobl.com (your fists) 5) Puckeruposama.com (your rear’s disdain) 6) ihateterrorism.com (guns) 7) ihateosama.com (darts) 8) The Bin Laden target game (mouse clicks) 9) Spec Ops:

What’s there to say? The guy choked on a pretzel. ‘t happens… ‘Course, Andrew Hofer’s prolly right: you never hear about people who eat their pretzels with a mouthful o’ hopsy suds choking on the crunchy, salty goldenbakes. Naw. Those folks are far too relaxed. The doughy pretzelchew just melts in the molars and slides easily down the gullet once the skids’ve been greased and numbed a bit… Andrew also

The Weekly Standard’s David Skinner weighs in on the “outrage” expressed by such dailies as The New York Post over whether or not, as the Post would have it, “”…street vendors dishonor our heroes at ground zero” but hawking NYPD and FDNY merchandise across the street from the site of the 9/11 tragedy. As Post columnist Steve Dunleavy seethes, “‘Hucksters within sight of the viewing platform are offering for sale

What’s the deal, here? Hawaii’s Congressional Representative Cynthia Henry Thielen pushes for and receives Industrial Hemp privileges for her state — even as the DEA issues an order banning hemp-food products from store shelves. From The Washington Post: […] the DEA has ordered any food containing hemp off store shelves by early next month. Soaps, cosmetics and clothes made with hemp may still be sold unless and until there is

We’ve commented several times on the unfolding Enron situation, so we’ll just link you to the newest info and commentary (and maybe make a few smarmy remarks in the process…). Today, the Los Angeles Times offers it’s analysis in “White House’s Failure to Sound Alarm Faulted: That no warnings were issued as Enron collapsed raises the specter of special treatment, critics charge.” A taste: Many experts on government-business relations say

“The leaders of Sudan and Uganda warned Somalia on Saturday to rid itself of terrorists before the United States takes its anti-terror campaign to the troubled Horn of Africa nation,” the AP reports. Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir said he was appealing to the transitional national government in Somalia to do everything possible ‘to avoid this (U.S.) strike, which will increase the suffering of the Somalis.’ The United States says it

“American special forces searching the Tora Bora cave complex in eastern Afghanistan are collecting dismembered fingers and human organ tissue in an attempt to establish whether Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaeda leaders were killed during last year’s massive assault on the caves,” The Observer reports. The tissue samples are being collected in forensic bags of the type used by detectives at murder scenes and sent refrigerated to the United