The Left have made a lot of noise about the Israeli’s “miscalculating” in their assault on Hamas, hoping that the propaganda about hearts and minds will be a self-fulfilling prophecy. This is why they’re so stunned that Israeli support for the campaign is so high. Here’s an interesting perspective, via Weasel Zippers: Two captured terrorists interviewed by Maariv/NRG say that Hamas was not expecting Israel’s response to the escalation in

He was no Ricardo Montalban*, but he was a great artist nevertheless. *I mean, what could be more authentic than real Corinthian leather? Do you really want to make him cry? They can’t get no satisfaction. More on Eric Holder’s FALN pardonees My daughter calls it the eggnoguration.

She’s the Jewish woman in the UK that we mentioned a few days ago. Via Weasel Zippers, comes this latest incident from France: France’s interior ministry says masked thieves who attacked a young man east of Paris to steal his car repeatedly stabbed him after noticing he was wearing a Jewish symbol. Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie has condemned the “revolting attack” in the suburban town of Fontenay-sous-Bois and says authorities

Via thor comes this insightful piece by a Russian radio talk show hostess: Human rights groups self-righteously demand a cease-fire in Gaza, but in reality they have little interest in achieving a resolution to the armed conflict. On the contrary, they have a vested interest in continued fighting to justify their bloated bureaucracies and their supposed peacekeeping mission. While the Hamas militants continue to hold their own people hostage, the

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Remember that Night Gallery episode, where the guy kept flushing his crap down the toilet and it kept returning larger? Wildlife officials said a rhesus monkey known to throw feces when mad is on the loose in Tampa Bay. Authorities have been trying to capture the primate since Tuesday afternoon, but it managed to evade a bucket truck and tranquilizer dart. This is why letting the trolls hang out here

Hopenchange: And even though the scandal went on for quite a while, it seems very long ago now, especially when you look at all the Clinton types who are playing enormously important roles in today’s affairs. Hillary Clinton — who the independent counsel concluded gave “factually false” testimony on the Travel Office firings — is going to become Secretary of State. Her husband is an international statesman. John Podesta runs

Ed Morrissey whales on them hammer and tongs this morning–just like a cetaceous smithy–and God knows they deserve it. From Fox News: The United Nations agency that administers a school in Gaza where dozens of civilians were killed by Israeli mortar fire last week has admitted to employing terrorists to work at its Palestinian schools in the past, has no system in place to keep members of Hamas or Islamic

I took a drink. In the new issue of Nature, the neuroscientist Larry Young offers a grand unified theory of love. After analyzing the brain chemistry of mammalian pair bonding — and, not incidentally, explaining humans’ peculiar erotic fascination with breasts — Dr. Young predicts that it won’t be long before an unscrupulous suitor could sneak a pharmaceutical love potion into your drink. That’s the bad news. The not-so-bad news

I’m posting this to follow up on what Clarice wrote about why Bush ought to pardon Libby. Daniel Henninger in the WSJ: I think there is a good legal argument for the Libby pardon, but others have done that well, making a credible case that he in fact is innocent. But there is another dimension to this that deserves consideration. Washington is on thin ice. The American people could not