From the CSM: The heat over China’s media censorship was turned up Tuesday after a baker’s dozen of senior Chinese officials warned that preventing freedom of expression would “sow the seeds of disaster for political and social transition.” Reuters reports that 13 scholars and ex-officials released a letter to the Chinese government, condemning its decision to shut down “Freezing Point,” an investigative section of the China Youth Daily. They called

Concise summary:  1) Cheney takes full responsibility.  “I’m the guy who pulled the trigger that fired the round that hit Harry,” he said.  Hume’s gloss suggests that Cheney is being harder or himself than the actual logistics of the accident suggest, but on this point, Cheney says there is no other blame to go around. 2) Cheney is unapologetic about the way the information was disseminated, and this includes a

From the WSJ,

Last Tuesday, I wrote about the (potential) forthcoming release of 12 hours of audio recordings between Saddam Hussein and his top advisers that, as the New York Sun story I quoted put it, “may provide clues to the whereabouts of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction”.  According to the Sun report, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence was studying the tapes.  Noted the Feb 7 story: […] The committee has

From OC Weekly, a tale of how videotaping their gang bang saved six 20-year old men from life in prison.  From the conclusion: You might be asking yourself: Why would a woman claim rape if she knew a video existed that so thoroughly contradicts her story? If you can figure that out, please let us know. Even after police detectives told her they’d viewed the video, Moonier still refused to

self-doubt:  “Dude.  You kinda suck.” me:  “True.  But I can bench 300.  And on the plus side, at least I’m not a pseudo-intellectual cocklord like this smarmy tool, who, to judge by the level of humor found at his hateful leftwing pixeldump, wouldn’t know funny if it dressed up in big floppy shoes and a red nose and started fingering his superclenched squeakhole with an oversized white thumb from one

…but still.  It’s nice to find you have your finger on the pulse of the body politic. To wit:  earlier this morning, I wrote: I place the odds at 3-2 that some time today, some leftwing website will have found some law or statute that, if finessed in a particular way—and if combined with a bit of speculative narrative filler that accounts, in a certain dubious way, for what took