The “reality-based community” at the Daily Kos continues to push the claim that the US was “caught” using “chemical weapons” in Fallujah—a claim that they fail to disabuse themselves of even after repeated evidence to the contrary.  Central to their charge is the documented use, by US troops, of White Phosphorous, which, while certainly chemical—and often a weapon—is not a chemical weapon.  And yet today’s Kos headline reads like this:

Reid:  “I’ll have the three cheese omelet and a side of toast, please.” Waitress:  “Sure thing.  Anything else…?” Reid:  “Riiiight.  Wouldn’t Dick Cheney just love to know that.  Do us both a favor, honey, and just bring me my omelet. And while you’re at it, you can knock off the ingenue act.  I’m on to you people.”*

From FOXNews and the AP: Explosions shook the Grand Hyatt and Radisson hotels in Jordan’s capital late Wednesday, and witnesses saw smoke rising from the building. FOX News confirmed five people had died in the blasts, and police said the cause of the explosion was unknown. “I just saw about eight or nine casualties brought in,” said Serene Sabbagh, FOX News producer in Amman. A black cloud of smoke was

The Corner’s Cliff May points to this Reuel Marc Gerecht Opinion Journal piece on the CIA’s institutional sloppiness: […] left-leaning liberals, not well known for their defense of the CIA, have charged forward to equate the maintenance of cover for Langley’s operatives (who are, let us be frank, probably overwhelmingly antiwar and anti-Bush) with the country’s national security. In their eyes, Lewis “Scooter” Libby, former chief of staff for the

I’m not going to suggest this is in any way indicative of the kind of petty tyrannies that animate the nannystatist impulses of many university administrations.  But I will say it’s indicative of a troubling progressivist trend in universities to suspend basic freedoms by claiming to be acting for the greater good.  From the December Reason, “Balance Sheet”: Officials at Albany’s Siena University outlaw drinking beverages outside dorms.  Any beverage,

first Jewish guy: “…So I say to our meshungina waitress—a friggin’ schwartze—‘Listen, gunnif.  If I wanted one knaidle, I would’ve ordered the small soup!’“‘ second Jewish guy: second Jewish guy: “Say what now?”