From the Herald Sun (Australia): Police are being advised to treat Muslim domestic violence cases differently out of respect for Islamic traditions and habits. Officers are also being urged to work with Muslim leaders, who will try to keep the families together. Women’s groups are concerned the politically correct policing could give comfort to wife bashers and keep their victims in a cycle of violence. The instructions come in a

Here’s the latest salacious speculation on the Fitzgerald investigation, from Richard Sale: Two top White House aides are expected to be indicted today on various charges related to the probe of CIA operative Valerie Plame whose classified identity was publicly breached in retaliation after her husband, Joe Wilson, challenged the administration’s claim that Saddam Hussein had sought to buy enriched unranium from Niger, acording to federal law enforcement and senior

The Washington Post makes available the full text of a 1993 Harriet Miers speech that has the cyber elites in a bit of a frenzy today.  Virginia Postrel, for instance, notes: For whatever reason, the president has picked a woman who not only has no constitutional or judicial experience but even in her business practice has demonstrated no interest in the law as anything other than a source of billable

Hugh Hewitt, on the Miers debates: The echo-chamber effect that plagued the Michael Moore Democrats last year may now be at work among conservative intellectuals who think they are seeing a rising [in discontent over the Miers nomination], when in fact they are witnessing the equivalent of a cyber faculty meeting meltdown over a tenure decision, on steroids. And There is no large scale revolt in the base, although there