They’re saying it ain’t a blog, but the folks over at The National Review are serializing eclectic, bite-sized morsels of punditry, which they update frequently and make available for online consumption. In short, they’re bloggin’. Cool site, called “The Corner.” Check it out. (But it’s definitely a blog…)

The Washington Times is reporting that “a lack of communication in recent weeks by those close to Osama bin Laden” is “causing some analysts” within the intelligence community “to believe he may be executing a ruse to convince Washington he is dead.” Officials said a small minority of intelligence analysts believe the dry spell could indicate that bin Laden is dead. He appeared tired and stressed in his last known

The National Review’s Rich Lowry points out the logical inconsistency in our European critics’ “concerns” over Gitmo, the Al Qaeda detainees (POWs?), and the Geneva Convention. In “Geneva Absurdity,” Lowry writes, […] the Geneva Convention seeks to protect innocent civilians by keeping soldiers in uniform, and by defining those combatants who don’t wear uniforms as being outside the rules of warfare and undeserving of the privileges afforded to legitimate prisoners

Andrew Sullivan, writing in today’s WSJ’s Opinion Journal, calls erstwhile Talk editor Tina Brown “the Bill Clinton of journalism.” What doomed Talk to failure, Sullivan argues, was Brown’s allegiance to […] the crazed cult of contemporaneity, the insistent, relentless outer-directedness of an editor who saw what was hot as always and everywhere preferable to what is true, who believed that an article was nothing unless it had been spun and

“John loves America. We love America,” Frank Lindh said after this morning’s hearing for his son, John Walker. He also said his son was innocent of the charges, a Washington Post story reports. I don’t doubt Mr. Lindh loves America. I don’t doubt he loves his son. But “John loves America”? C’mon. …Color me skeptical. [Update: Walker’s defense is taking on shape. ‘Tseems the U.S. Government, particulary the DOD and

In an on-location report on “Good Morning America,” the GMA correspondent — describing Johnny Taliban’s first court appearance — had this to say: “I was struck at how young he looked, how frightened. He seemed dazed, lost, almost stumbling into the courtroom, flanked by two large guards.” Let the mushy, touchy-feely framing of Johnny Walker as poor, lost, misunderstood soul begin. We’re not putting on trial a traitorous Islamo-scab who

Two new blogs to mention — both run by Harvard undergrads [insert Cornel West joke here] and both self titled. Meet Matthew Yglesias and Glenn Kinen. If we play our cards right, perhaps one of these two (if not both) can snatch us a lock of Samuel Huntington’s hair… Best of luck, fellas! — pw

D’oh! One of those difficult personal dilemmas: topless PETA-philes painted in tiger stripes! Let’s see… I hate PETA’s bullying advocacy tactics…but I love topless women painted up like circus cats! Oh yeah, I’m married. Conclusion: PETA bad. [update: the link is an old-fashioned anchor link, so you have to search out the story on the main page; I’ve given you the gist.]

Jonah Goldberg’s latest NRO swipe at the inanity of boutique multiculturalism is right on target: This infuriating pattern

I’m sorry, but there’s just far too much in the way of innuendo floating around about this missing O.J. girlfriend, her burgled home, and her dead cat. If the cat had been found stuffed inside a leather glove with its head nearly cut off, perhaps we’d be on to something…