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 Travis Rowley, whose e-book Out of Ivy documents his drift toward conservatism as a result of his eventual disillusion with the radical politics in vogue at Brown. Oh.  And sadly, I STILL don’t have the broadcast equipment, so I’ll be doing the show from a telephone.  Again. 

Via Powerline: Joseph Shahda has translated another Iraqi intelligence document, which appears to indicate that Iraq procured equipment to detect nerve gas in or about December 2000. This equipment is described as “prohibited” and as “similar to the required quality compared with the Russian equipments,” which are described as having “expired.” It appears that the equipment was tested in December 2000 and was found to detect “nerve agents” successfully. Which

From Pajamas Media, Powerline, and filmmaker Andrew Marcus comes video of the first of a pair of “No More Immigrants” marches held yesterday in LA. Notes PJM: This first demonstration marched through downtown Los Angeles to City Hall and was participated in by an estimated 250,000 people. A second one, with an estimated 400,000, marched later up Wilshire Boulevard. Supported by establishment figures like Cardinal Roger Mahoney, it had a

In today’s WSJ Opinion Journal, Shelby Steele writes eloquently and forcefully on a subject familiar to regular protein wisdom readers:  the dangers of undue (and artificial) deference to Otherness, particularly its tangible effects on protecting the security of the US.  From “White Guilt and the Western Past”: There is something rather odd in the way America has come to fight its wars since World War II. For one thing, it

Karol Sheinen at Alarming News smells something fishy about a recent email campaign excoriating Bush on immigration.  Which was bound to happen, given that something called “Moby” might be involved. From my perspective, it doesn’t matter to the substance of the message who the messenger happens to be.  But that doesn’t mean that we should be suffering sock puppetry kindly, either.

From TheKansan.com: The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit Monday, challenging a new Kentucky law that limits protests at funerals. Lili S. Lutgens, an attorney for the ACLU in Louisville, said a portion of the law is overly broad in the limitations it places on freedom of speech and on freedom of expression. “The language is so broad that two people holding a conversation on a sidewalk, if

From Raw Story: On Chris Matthews’ Hardball Monday evening, just moments ago, MSNBC correspondent David Shuster confirmed what RAW STORY first reported in February: that outed CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson was working on Iran at the time she was outed. […] According to current and former intelligence officials, Plame Wilson, who worked on the clandestine side of the CIA in the Directorate of Operations as a non-official cover (NOC)