From FOXNews: A Pakistani intelligence official said Wednesday that authorities had arrested an “important” suspect in the London bombings, while police in London removed a shattered carriage from a subway station, signaling a shift in the investigation’s underground forensic work. “We have an important man in our custody,” a senior Pakistani intelligence official told The Associated Press. “I am not in a position to disclose his name right now, but

The smart money is on Edith Brown Clement.* Let the games begin! **** update: another guess. **** update:  John Roberts will be the President’s nominee.  Expect a bit of a battle.  more:  Jonathan Adler calls Roberts “close to the Platonic ideal of what a Supreme Court nominee should be” (via IP).  Harry Reid is not quite so sanguine.  And the National Journal had this to say of Roberts:  “John Roberts

Kerouac:  “Man.  This really ain’t so cool.”

The New York Times’ Bob Herbert is unimpressed with Republican Party Chair Ken Mehlman’s address to the NAACP.  Writing of the event, Herbert characterizes it thus: One of President Bush’s surrogates went before the N.A.A.C.P. last week and apologized for the Republican Party’s reprehensible, decades-long Southern strategy. The surrogate, Ken Mehlman, is chairman of the Republican National Committee. Perhaps he meant well. But his words were worse than meaningless. They

Byron York, writing at the Corner, notes: There has been a brisk traffic today in buying web addresses that could be used to oppose Edith Brown Clement, were she to become the new Supreme Court nominee. The addresses opposeclement.org and supportclement.org were both purchased by the anti-Bush Leadership Conference on Civil Rights today—allowing the group to simultaneously oppose Clement and stop her supporters from using the pro-Clement address. Another address,

Writing in The Australian, Emma-Kate Symons notes how Britain’s commitment to “multiculturalism” (at the expense of a more vigorous policy of promoting assimilation, which tends to earn supporters the “racist” label from academics and a progressive intelligensia drunk on its own self-righteousness) is forcing many of its cultural spokesmen into the uncomfortable semantic position of having to deny what to just about everyone else is painfully self-evident—namely, that Muslims are,

The National Journal’s Stuart Taylor Jr. offers up “Five Reasons Not to Put Gonzales On the Court.” Worth a read—particularly if you are one of Gonzales’ supporters. For his part, protein wisdom insists that, if pressed, he could probably come up with, like, eight reasons not to put Gonzales on the Court.  Without even breaking a sweat.  But that would just be showing off.