me: “Uh, mom?  Did you leave Grandpa’s door unlocked again?  Because unless we’ve started keeping matzah in the tool shed, I think the old fella just wandered outside and ate a piece of particle board covered in whitefish salad and sliced onion.” me:  me:  “…Right.  I’ll go see if I can find his pants.”

This is an old story, and I’ve probably written on it before, but it bears repeating.  From Defense Tech: Here’s the situation: the U.S. Army is short on bullets. And only two companies can supply ‘em. One’s in East Alton, Illinois. The other’s in Israel. That’s a problem, American lawmakers say. The Army, back in December, inked a $70 million deal with Israel Military Industries Ltd. for small-caliber ammunition. But

Please tune in today to “Hoist the Black Flag” on Rightalk. The show begins at 4:05 pm EST, 1:05 pacific. Today’s guest is Michelle Malkin, one of the blogosphere’s most candid and divisive figures.  Which is why I love her so much, even when we disagree on certain social issues. Oh.  And sadly, I STILL don’t have the broadcast equipment, so I’ll be doing the show from a telephone.  Again. 

Finally, a fulfilling follow-up to a story about an academic who presumed she must destroy the First Amendment in order to save it.  From the AP: A college professor has been put on leave and will retire at the end of the semester after admitting she told students to destroy an anti-abortion display on campus. Sally Jacobsen, a professor in the literature and language department at Northern Kentucky University, will

Featuring Mr Potato head.  Me, I’d have used my Ann Coulter action figure and some kitten photos— but that would have opened me up to charges of being derivative.  So I’m glad I took a pass.

After all, why should Hamas have all the fun? Can’t a country to whom the US provides $2 billion in aid yearly have a favorable opinion of blowing up Israelis, too?  From the Jerusalem Post: An Egyptian state-controlled newspaper praised Monday’s suicide attack in Tel Aviv, which killed nine people and wounded dozens, calling it an act of sacrifice and martyrdom. Egypt has always taken pains to condemn the violence

Yale alum and proprietor of the Nail Yale blog, Clint Taylor, emails to say that Yale looks to be manuevering to save face and rid itself, by way of a change in its special students program standards, of former Taliban mouthpiece, Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi. Of paramount importance to Yale, one suspects, is not looking like they caved to pressure from knuckledragging xenophobes like Taylor and other judgmental western hegemons on