Cathy Young weighs in on the Wally Hettle / Paul Deignan flap, as does Richard Bennett, who calls Hettle’s actions “academic McCarthyism” and notes how Hettle, in his attempt to prove himself an elightened male feminist, presumed to fight Bitch PhD’s battles for her. Which, I guess we can take some comfort from the fact that, though rigorous academic debate is as good as dead, old fashioned chivalry is still

me:  ”So, tell me, when’s the last time you were empty long enough to be washed and put away –” highball glass: “– HA!”

John Cole calls Kevin Drum on a spectacularly obvious lie by omission.  In light of today’s Bush speech, we should all keep an eye out for situationally ironic performatives of the kind Drum tries to sneak past his readers. If that is what he’s actually attempting to do, of course. Personally, I’m of the belief that all of Drum’s readers already know the truth but are willing to feign outrage

Glad you asked. Here’s Sen Teddy Kennedy, expressing his outrage: Its deeply regrettable that the president is using Veterans Day as a campaign-like attempt to rebuild his own credibility by tearing down those who seek the truth about the clear manipulation of intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq war. Instead of providing open and honest answers about how we will achieve success in Iraq and allow our troops to

A few key excerpts from the President’s Veteran’s Day speech on Iraq; these remarks began roughly 39 minutes into a 50 minutes speech.  Transcription may not be perfect. “…the debate at home must be free-minded.” Suggestions that the administration led us into war are “baseless attacks” from “some Democrats.” “It is deepy irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war [to liberate Iraq] began.” “The stakes are too high…for

Behold!

Elizabeth:  “Is it just me?  Or does this Sarah Silverman chick sound like a world-class bitch? “Not to mention she’s a Jew.  Which, that doesn’t help matters either, truth be told.”

From the Anchorage Daily News: House Republicans, after long hours of scrounging for the votes to pass their five-year budget, decided Wednesday night to drop a provision that would open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. The news emerged late Wednesday night as the House Rules Committee prepared the far-reaching bill for a vote on the House floor today. “There will be no drilling in ANWR,” said New

From Pajama Jihad: It seems that some bloke over in the U.K. wrote an article accusing U.S. troops of using chemical weapons in the battle of Fallujah and lefty bloggers here in the U.S. have run with it. The “chemical weapon” in question is White Phosphorus – Willy Pete as it’s known in the military – is used in mortar and artillery shells. If the lefty bloggers are to believed,