Please visit the “Day By Day” main site and hit the Clik4Cathy button as many times as you can for the next 10 days.  Each click raises the Yahoo rating of the small cancer treatment clinic keeping Chris’ sister Cathy alive—a clinic hoping to raise its visibility in time to correspond with an ad on a local CNN Cancer Special.  Or if you’re too time-constrained to surf over to Chris’,

Stephen Green has some sober advice for Turkish officials who’ve detained a Syrian al Qaeda militant “who they believe was organizing an attack on Israeli targets in Turkey.”

This land is your land, this land is my land, From California to the New York island, From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters, This land was made for you and me (Though of course private property Is an entirely different story, so Get the hell off my lawn, you dusty Sweat-soaked troubadour, before I Put a pound of buckshot in your crusty Okie ass) **** related (via

Roger Simon wonders if Iran isn’t on the brink of an “explosion”—which is a fair question, given today’s disheartening news from the diplomatic battlefront.  Then there’s this, from Bloomberg News: Iran today broke United Nations seals on advanced uranium enrichment equipment in the Isfahan nuclear facility, as the International Atomic Energy Agency debated a resolution calling on the government in Tehran to halt such work. “The seals were broken, and

Jeff Harrell:  “You WANT me on that bong!  You NEED me on that bong…!”* **** (h/t Bill; see also, Ace, Jawa, Mark Kleinman, JunkYard Blog) And of course, this, this, this, this, and this. **** update:  Rusty weighs in with an argument I largely agree with (I don’t, however, believe that “drugs are bad,” necessarily—I had plenty of great times in my younger days getting stoned after work, listening to

Recall Austin Bay, from “Nervous in Baghdad”: When will the media figure this out: Al Qaeda and its cohorts are strategic information powers and little else. “The terrorists have yet to win an engagement above the platoon level,” Gen. Abizaid said as we flew from Qatar to Iraq. I mean, a C-17 is loud, but the man said it with exacting clarity. Terrorist bombs are made for TV, and terrorist

From My Way News: A conservative group in Virginia said Tuesday it was withdrawing its support for Supreme Court nominee John Roberts’ confirmation because of his work helping overturn a Colorado referendum on gays. The group, Public Advocate of the United States, is one of the first conservative organizations to announce anything but support for the judge Eugene Delgaudio, the president of the group, said in an interview that he