From The New York Times: Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and several Democrats on the committee said Sunday that they were considering calling James Dobson to testify on what he has been told about Harriet Miers, the president’s Supreme Court nominee. “If Dr. Dobson knows something that he shouldn’t know or something that I ought to know, I’m going to find out,” Specter said Sunday on

Dr Michael T. Osterholm, Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, Associate Director of the Department of Homeland Security’s National Center for Food Protection and Defense, and Professor at the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health, in the July/August Foreign Affairs: Dating back to antiquity, influenza pandemics have posed the greatest threat of a worldwide calamity caused by infectious disease. Over the past 300 years, ten

“Regis”: “‘Kofi,’ is it?  Tell you what: I’ll see what I can do about getting you a free month of MSN Broadband.  Fair enough?  “Now shut up and go fetch me an icy cold Fanta Orange, would ya.  Regis has needs.”* (h/t Darleen) **** update:  Heh.

Via Allah, I’m pointed to this post by Jill at Feministe that begins with a discussion of the mistreatment of women in Saudi Arabia (using the story of Rania al-Baz as its jumping off point) but ends, disappointingly, as a reminder that, like Saudi Arabia, we here in the US are guilty of crimes against women—and that, in our readiness to demonize the Saudi Other, we shield ourselves from our

People see Miers get the Supreme Court slot and it reminds them of when they played Little League baseball and didn’t get to pitch because the coach’s son got the slot even though he wasn’t as good. —Black Jack responds to Hugh Hewitt