From the cutting room floor, ABC News, continued: 20/20’s Barbara Walters: “Your husband has been accused of being a ‘flip-flopper,’ Teresa — of changing positions to suit his needs. How would you respond to that?” Teresa Heinz Kerry: “Who, my John? Christ, he hasn’t changed positions once since our wedding night. Strictly missionary. And let me tell you, taxes aren’t the only thing he’s trying to raise these days–“ Barbara

Oh yeah. Let’s not forget this, either. Me, I force myself to think about it every time I spread brie on a water cracker or pour myself a snort of Cognac. Or, y’know, curse the Jews.

Gut check time, America. And that goes for our military leadership, too. Time to stop worrying about world opinion and really respond to this kind of unprovoked savagery. The response should be swift and forceful. And brutal. Really really brutal. [update: more]

“Pregnant mother Kim Hasler spoke of her horror yesterday after she bit into a McDonalds takeaway and crunched on a human tooth. Kim said she was nearly sick when she found the object which has now been sent away for analysis in a laboratory.” “I went to bite into it and I heard a kind of crunch,” she said. “There was this hard object in my burger. I took it

“A West Virginia man who fell down an escalator at an airport sued US Airways, alleging the airline didn’t warn him about the adverse affects of drinking alcohol on a plane.” Floyd W. Shuler, 61, filed the lawsuit against Virginia-based US Airways Inc., in circuit court in Fort Myers. Shuler, who has lived part-time on Marco Island, said in the suit that US Airways was negligent by failing to warn

Reason‘s Tim Cavanaugh thinks the Bushies should lay off of Richard Clarke and turn their attention instead to John Kerry: Weren’t you paying attention when all those former Clinton administration people (I’m not sure anymore, but it seems like it was all of them) did the exact same thing to their former boss? The tearing down of reputations is a business best left to us, the smallfries. I’ve never known

If you haven’t already done so, scroll down to the bottom of the page for today’s Chris Muir comic. Dead-bang on, if you ask me. Political theater of the absurd captured perfectly. Kudos, Chris. Next up: Condi Rice arriving on the Hill in slippers and a bathrobe, listening to Sean Mullins MP3s on her iPod. And why shouldn’t she? Everyone knows Teddy Kennedy gets to legislate without pants… Well he

It’s one thing to come back. It’s quite another to come back and plant in my skull images of Madeleine Albright slowdancing with a husky North Korean dwarf. Because as you well know, my head is a confused place — and now, thanks to you, it’s playing a continuous loop of a naked Albright dancing with Seabiscuit to the Allman Brothers’ “Sweet Melissa.” On one of those “Survivor” islands. Which,