Jawa Report has video of the 4 western peace activists taken hostage in Iraq by The Swords of Righteousness [Truth], an Islamic resistance group. The post includes a transcript revealing the names of the other three hostages (previously, only Norman Kember had been identified).  The hostages are accused of spying. We have not seen videotaped executions in some time, and the purported Zawahiri letter to Zarqawi expressed concern with the

From the New Zealand Herald: Air New Zealand and Qantas have banned men from sitting next to unaccompanied children on flights, sparking accusations of discrimination. The airlines have come under fire for the policy that critics say is political correctness gone mad after a man revealed he was ordered to change seats during a Qantas flight because he was sitting next to a young boy travelling alone. Auckland man Mark

[12:14] cwealm: I did not understand your haiku [12:17] proteinwisdom: Understand it? [12:20] proteinwisdom: Well you see, if Abe Lincoln were a Yellow-billed cuckoo?  He’d probably be less interested in giving the Gettysburg Address than he would be in eating grubs with one of his Yellow-billed cuckoo friends. [12:21] proteinwisdom: It’s common sense, John. [12:23] proteinwisdom: Yellow-billed cuckoos are notoriously grub-covetous.  And notoriously apolitical [12:24] proteinwisdom: And when it gets

Former Democratic Congressman Martin Frost, writing on the FOXNews site: Quietly, without a shot being fired, a revolution is about to occur in American politics. There is a very strong chance that, one year from now, a woman will be third in line for the presidency of the United States. If the current trend continues, Nancy Pelosi will be Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives following the November 2006

…Or, as some people would have it, “traditional conservative values.” Unless of course some of it’s practiced, say, here.  Then it’s just a manifestation of grrlpower and progressivism!