Well, at least they didn’t cast Val Kilmer or George Clooney in the starring role…* (h/t Allah)

Crawford:  “Mmmmmm, you like that, don’t you, you dirty little tramp.  Say, ‘thank you, Mommie Dearest, thank you, Mommie Dearest!’ C’mon, just once.  For me.  Please…?*

The Volokh Conspiracy’s Todd Zywicki raises all the appropriate questions with regard to Columbia University’s odious $15 Million Diversity Initiative, which, in typical academic “tolerance”-speak fashion, lauds itself for promoting a type of strident and homogenized “diversity” that is, in fact, antithetical to diversity in anything but the most meaningless, cosmetic sense of the word—while in effect codifying a particular ideological stance.  Because as anyone who’s ever worked in a

From the Washington Post: The U.S. military has devised its first-ever war plans for guarding against and responding to terrorist attacks in the United States, envisioning 15 potential crisis scenarios and anticipating several simultaneous strikes around the country, according to officers who drafted the plans. The classified plans, developed here at Northern Command headquarters, outline a variety of possible roles for quick-reaction forces estimated at as many as 3,000 ground

From the Times Online (UK): The Government is proposing to rename ethnic minority groups along US lines in an attempt to strengthen and highlight their British roots. Minorities could be described as, for example “Asian-British” rather than simply as “Asian” under proposals being considered by Hazel Blears, the Home Office Minister. The plan to adopt the American practice of identifying ethnic heritage will be controversial with some British ethnic minorities

From ABC News: ABC News Anchor Peter Jennings died today at his home in New York City. He was 67. On April 5, Jennings announced he had been diagnosed with lung cancer. He is survived by his wife, Kayce Freed, his two children, Elizabeth, 25, and Christopher, 23, and his sister, Sarah Jennings. In announcing Jennings’ death to his ABC colleagues, News President David Westin wrote: “For four decades, Peter