The WSJ “Opinion Journal’s” Peggy Noonan Rand Simberg notes, Noonan misfires on the origins of The Rumsfeld Machismo Bottling Co. (she claims Rumsfeld’s “a WASP wartime consigliere”): Peggy, Peggy, Peggy…. A man with a name like ‘Rumsfeld,’ a WASP? Sorry, Margaret, but Rumsfeld is not an anglo-saxon name. Don’s a kraut. The German ‘feld’ is probably ‘field.’ I’m not sure what ‘rums’ would mean. Maybe it means that he comes

On Shays-Meehan, The National Review’s a rosier look: National politics will survive the Shays-Meehan campaign finance reform bill, which passed the House last week and is likely to become law soon. If it curbs money in politics at all, the effect will probably be slight. And Republicans shouldn’t be alarmed despite House Speaker Dennis Hastert’s claim that Shays-Meehan could produce Armageddon for them. In truth, there’s a better chance the

Lee Bockhorn on the column, he can tell you everything you’d ever want to know about your G-spot. And by “G-spot,” Bockhorn means…Germany, is it…?

More on campus revisionism and PC schlock, courtesty of Beth Henary of The Weekly Standard: At Indiana University, students are lobbying

“Grabbing the green,” from this week’s “Washingon Whispers,” U.S. News & World Report (print edition): Look for more crackdowns on radical Islamic fundraisers. Treasury Department officials recently scouted Israel looking for new leads on money flowing to the likes of Hamas and Hezbollah. But there’s a problem. Once one group’s assets are seized, money simply is funneled to other fundraisers. ‘It’s like squeezing a balloon,’ says one money-laundering official. Quick

“A new Arabic language Web site offering information on the post-Taliban Afghanistan has started carrying statements and

Daniel Pearl, AP Photo CNN is reporting that WSJ reporter Daniel Pearl is dead. At this time, Judy Woodruff reports, CNN is unable to reveal its sources — other than to say that U.S. law enforcement officials and the State Department are confirming the report. Pearl leaves behind a pregnant wife, whose appeals to the sickening thugs responsible for his death fell on deaf ears. The AP files this report.

One of the cable news channels (okay, it’s

Chief PLO representative in the U.S., Hashan Rahman, today explained to FOXNews’ Terry Keenan (in typically confrontational style) why the Palestinians are entitled to the moral high ground in the Israel/Palestinian conflict: “The Israelis have made no concessions!” Hashan thundered to Keenan, who struggled to get a word in edge wise. “We have made concessions! We have recognized Israel!” …Which pretty much sums up the conflict, don’t it? For the

Writing in the WSJ “Opinion Journal,” Thomas Bray