Ray Smith sends along this bit from NRO’s Michael Ledeen suggesting—almost off-handedly in a disquisition on the changing demographic of the Islamic terror movment (and by way of Iranian sources)—that UBL is dead and buried: There’s an old Chinese theory according to which the best way to understand historical events is not to reconstruct the sequence of “causes” by which the events were “produced,” but rather to look at the

SCOTUSBlog is liveblogging the Alito hearings, which thus far, from what I’ve been able to catch of them, is simply a series of grandstanding, self-righteous Senatorial speeches designed to “warn” Alito that he need be specific in his answers (Joe Biden, for instance, couldn’t “fathom” how the Founding Fathers would’ve wanted potential SC Justices to decide cases right there in the hearing rooms, so that we could appoint judges confident

QandO’s Jon Henke breaks his blog shackles and pens a Tech Central Station column on the rhetoric and reality of wages and compensation in the US.  In short, he says, we’re doing better than the data-mining from Paul Krugman and the Democratic Party would have us believe.  From “‘Real Wage’ Slaves?”: In the Census Bureau’s 2005 Report on Alternative Income Estimates in the United States: 2003, it’s true that Median

me: “Uh, dude?  I can’t feel my hands or fingers.” Klonopin:  “I know, awesome, isn’t it? And if you close your eyes and tug on yourself just so, it almost feels like some totally hot stranger’s doing you a naughty naughty solid.”