…Not that it matters, of course.  Carter’s just a fringe element of the Democratic party anyway, and besides—who listens to ex-Presidents?  And do you honestly believe terrorists don’t have more important things to do than pay attention to the partisan sniping of grandstanding western politicos?  There are nail bombs to make, and buses and subway cars to blow up. As to whether or not Carter’s comments provide rhetorical cover for

“Nineteen spicy chicken sandwiches, yes.  And a six-piece McNuggets.”

Well, no, but I’m afraid there won’t be much dancing today, anyway. The little guy injured himself Wednesday throwing me batting practice, and he’s just now able to get out of bed after taking a vicious line drive off the snout.  Which, I feel bad for him an all, but then that’s what you get when you leave your slider flat and hanging out over the plate like a ripe

From BBC News, “Madrassa foreigners ‘must leave’”: Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf says all foreign students at madrassas, or religious schools, some 1,400 pupils, must leave the country. “Any (foreigners) in the madrassas—even dual nationality holders—will leave Pakistan,” Gen Musharraf said. This is the latest in a series of measures the president has announced in a renewed clampdown on extremism. Madrassas have been in the spotlight after one of the London

You know, for an older gentleman, G. Gordon Liddy is really quite sexy.  Not that I’m gay, mind you.  God forbid.  No, seriously:  God forbid.

When you see arguments like this one beginning to circulate through the left side of the blogosphere (where it will doubtless gain traction, then be dutifully repeated by Keith Olbermann and the folks at Air America, and finally by more mainstream outlets), it’s useful to revisit Howard Kurtz’ July 21 column, which offers this enlightening insight into the progressive strategy for derailing Bush’s court choices: The lightning-quick attacks [on SCOTUS

From FOXNews: All four men suspected of trying to plant bombs in London’s transit system on July 21 are now in police custody in London and Rome, several media outlets reported Friday. Two of the suspects were picked up in west London following raids by heavily armed police, the reports said. London police did not confirm their identities. Italian police in Rome arrested Osman Hussain a naturalized British citizen from

As an antidote to the consistently defeatest talking-head punditry of, say, Chris Matthews and his ilk, I think it useful here to excerpt a bit of Austin Bay’s evocative—though no less troubling (in that it points out the essential disconnect between the facts on the ground in Iraq and public perception in the US, a perception driven by an increasingly hostile media still enamored with its Vietnam / Watergate legacy

From last evening’s “Hardball w/ Chris Matthews” comes this bizarre bit:  Shortly after New York Times columnist Bob Herbert condemned the US for forcing democracy on Iraqis “at the point of a gun,” Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen had this to say:  “There’s another word for ‘insurgents’ in Iraq, and that’s ‘residents.’” Not to be outdone, Matthews himself (channeling Brian Williams) then added:  “‘Insurgents’ are what the British called us in