Going out for breakfast with the wife. Where our residential sidestreet hits the main road is a li’l diner, offering chicken-fried steak, 2 eggs, bacon, hashbrowns, toast, and coffee — all for $3.50! Yet — inexplicably — we’ve never eaten there, despite living beside the friggin’ place for going on 3 years. So this morning we’re going for it. Newsworthy blogs to follow — provided my tres-buck chicken-fried steak isn’t

In reaction to George Will’s column, “General Sherman’s Advice,” Alex Knapp of Heretical Ideas argues that emulating Gen. Sherman in our war against al Qaeda (pac

Rantburg links to this story detailing the exploits of a makeshift “international solidarity movement” in the West Bank — a cobble of Brits, Frenchies, Italians, and Palestinians holding “non-violent” protests on behalf of Palestinian students who have been barred from Bir Zeit University. Naturally, they set fire to shit and tried to topple concrete slabs. Because of some prior commitments, John Walker was unable to attend the protests… [Update: Charles

Remember when you thought Helen Thomas was just a spunky, tough-as-nails, take-no-prisoners White House correspondent in bad shoes? Well, those days are well nigh over. Today, ‘tseems, she’s just another partisan grump, hectoring Ari Fleischer and Dubya with her insistently vapid questions and (more frequently) her inane columns. Here, Helen pulls a Rall out of her ass (or is it a “Moore”), suggesting that President Bush, by dint of his

Remember when you thought Helen Thomas was just a spunky, tough-as-nails, take-no-prisoners White House correspondent in bad shoes? Well, those days are well nigh over. Today, ‘tseems, she’s just another partisan grump, hectoring Ari Fleischer and Dubya with her insistently vapid questions and (more frequently) her inane columns. Here, Helen pulls a Rall out of her ass (or is it a “Moore”), suggesting that President Bush, by dint of his

The New York Times is running a story on the potential flight of C-Dub and Skip Gates from Harvard’s Halloweds to the Tiger Cage of Princeton U. West and Gates are threatening to leave Harvard over (yawn) racial “concerns” — shorthand, in racespeak (vis-a-vis the academy) for something like “affirmative action or bust”: ‘It’s absolutely critical that the president make an unequivocal public statement in support of affirmative action,’ [said

The New York Times is running a story on the potential flight of C-Dub and Skip Gates from Harvard’s Halloweds to the Tiger Cage of Princeton U. West and Gates are threatening to leave Harvard over (yawn) racial “concerns” — shorthand, in racespeak (vis-a-vis the academy) for something like “affirmative action or bust”: ‘It’s absolutely critical that the president make an unequivocal public statement in support of affirmative action,’ [said

UPI: “Acting on U.S. intelligence gathered in Afghanistan, the Singapore government earlier this month raided a “terrorist nest” and arrested 12 alleged al Qaida members suspected of planning an attack on the island nation’s deep-water Navy port, top Pentagon and other government officials said.” (via Drudge Report)

A detailed examination of documents taken from abandoned al-Qaeda houses in Kabul reveal the organization’s plans for chemical weapons “drawn up with large-scale production in mind: each recipe contained a step-by-step guide explaining how to produce batches that would kill thousands of people,” The Times of London is reporting. Many of the pages had the feel of teachers

A detailed examination of documents taken from abandoned al-Qaeda houses in Kabul reveal the organization’s plans for chemical weapons “drawn up with large-scale production in mind: each recipe contained a step-by-step guide explaining how to produce batches that would kill thousands of people,” The Times of London is reporting. Many of the pages had the feel of teachers