The indefatigable Michelle Malkin and crew (including Allah and JunkyardBlog’s Bryan Preston) have launched what they are calling “the world’s first full-service conservative Internet broadcast network.” Check it out here. Question:  would any of you be interested in a protein wisdom podcast?  How about a video report in the format of Michelle’s new “Vent”? (abeit with an R-rating and lots of visual evidence of liquor abuse?) Or would my nasally

Karl Maher at Can’t See the Center has the details. Remember:  an informed electorate is not the same as a pre-formed electorate.  And to many contemporary jouralists, the latter is the goal. You know, for the greater good and all…

From ABC Online (Australia), “Howard hails appointment of new Iraq PM”: Prime Minister John Howard has welcomed news the President of Iraq, Jalal Talabani, has invited a prominent Shiite politician to form a government. Shiite leader Jawad al-Maliki has been given 30 days to form Iraq’s first full-term post-Saddam Hussein government after being nominated as prime minister to end a four-month political deadlock. Mr Howard says the selection of Jawad

From the good news / bad news file.  From John Fund, WSJ: Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi’s luck is running out. Eight weeks ago the Taliban diplomat turned special Yale student made a media splash on the cover of the New York Times magazine in which he proclaimed: “In some ways I’m the luckiest person in the world, I could have ended up in Guantanamo Bay. Instead I ended up at Yale.”

(tie) New England Clam Chowder / “It just felt so right, you know?” Vichyssoise “Lacking the daggers bequeathed Ambassador Thorn by Bugenhagen to slay the anti-Christ, what other choice did I have?” “Bush gets to declassify information on a whim.  And I just don’t think it right that he should have all the Executive powers and privileges—presidential elections and Constitutional powers or no.” Split Pea and Ham Chicken with Stars

From Time: Ahead of this week’s U.N. Security Council deadline for Iran to abandon its nuclear activities and an expected report from nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei, U.S. officials have been mapping a plan to hit the defiant regime. But the attacks will be financial, not military. The U.S. and its European allies will ask the council next month for a resolution that would pave the way for political and economic

As I noted yesterday, I believe the many in the mainstream press will, so long as the can manage it, attempt to “do their best to softpeddle some of the upcoming revelations [concerning the CIA leaks].  For instance, we’ll almost certainly see equivocation, red herrings, non sequiturs, and a number of other attempts to minimize the potential damage to the CIA leakers (and, potentially, it seems, US Senators Durbin and

“Life in prison is worse for women than for men, argues prison writer-in-residence Emily Kingham. Men often cope with imprisonment by cutting off their emotions; women often become exhibitionists.” From The Social Affairs Unit: Prison bent. Any man I meet on the outside who hears about my job confesses his fear of being imprisoned, and then, in what is to me a non sequiter [sic], his fear of being raped.

Tara Ross, NRO: Opponents of the Electoral College have conjured up yet another scheme by which they hope to undermine America’s unique system of electing presidents. If they are successful, the Electoral College could essentially be eliminated at the behest of a handful of states, without the bother of a constitutional amendment. […] This latest anti-Electoral College effort, the Campaign for the National Popular Vote, was announced on February 23.

By the time I booted up the computer this morning, so much good work had already been done on this expanding CIA leak arrest story that I think I’ll just do some linking and quoting.  First, Ace, who shares my cynicism, notes how the mainstream message machine—along with many DNC loyalists and party chiefs—are likely to play this: Here comes what I like to call “The Weekend of Important Distinctions.”