“The leaders of Hamas, the militant Islamic movement responsible for the most deadly suicide attacks in Israel in the last week, are pleased and satisfied just now,” The New York Times reports. “‘Our spirit is high, our mood is good,’ said Ismail Abu Shanab, one of the organization’s leaders.” If Israel attacks Gaza, as it has areas of the West Bank, he and the other leaders would likely be principal

“The leaders of Hamas, the militant Islamic movement responsible for the most deadly suicide attacks in Israel in the last week, are pleased and satisfied just now,” The New York Times reports. “‘Our spirit is high, our mood is good,’ said Ismail Abu Shanab, one of the organization’s leaders.” If Israel attacks Gaza, as it has areas of the West Bank, he and the other leaders would likely be principal

President Bush, speaking of suicide bombers: “They’re not martyrs. They’re murderers. And they undermine the cause of the Palestinian people” — …On Israel: “I call on Israel to withdraw from the cities they’ve recently occupied.” I watched the Bush press conference on ABC (the lead-in came from “GMA“) and listened to Peter Jennings and Charlie Gibson offer their “analyses” of the speech afterwards. To hear these two chowderheads tell it,

Another coupla’ blogs I’d like to point people towards (in addition to the marvelous Myria’s — who’s so marvelous, in fact, that she’s already gained a link of honor on the Captain’s site after, what’s it been, Myria? three days of blogging…?). First, check out Laurence Simon’s very funny File 13. Second, go visit R. Addison’s contemplative (eg. — “If blades of grass exist in another dimension as entities with

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Just received this message from the Vodkapundit, Stephen Green: HostGo shut down VodkaPundit — without warning, without volunteering information — because their ‘servers’ can’t handle Movable Type. Stacy is working hard as she can to get everything moved over to the new host, but it’s gonna take a couple days. So, spread the word — and feel free to trash talk those bastards at HostGo. Apparently they need to upgrade

Just received this message from the Vodkapundit, Stephen Green: HostGo shut down VodkaPundit — without warning, without volunteering information — because their ‘servers’ can’t handle Movable Type. Stacy is working hard as she can to get everything moved over to the new host, but it’s gonna take a couple days. So, spread the word — and feel free to trash talk those bastards at HostGo. Apparently they need to upgrade

Just a bit of nitpicking here, but I do wish FOXNews would alert its anchors to the idiocy of repeating the claim (and I’ve heard it, like, 10 times this morning, if not more) that Jesus was born in the Church of his own Nativity. Jesus was born in a Christian Church? Talk about your notable historical anticipations…! I’d sure like to meet the architects who were able to prefigure

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