I’m loath to offer my prediction, but the photo in the extended entry certainly does give me pause. Keep an eye here for the breaking news.

From the conservative maverick St Andrew of the Trendy Hairshirt: Here’s one detail about Don Rumsfeld’s summer home that a historian found poignant: it was once a renowmed [sic] center for torturing slaves. Frederick Douglass was assaulted there—and escaped. Of course, those slaves weren’t actually tortured, as Alberto Gonzales would argue. They were merely subject to “coercive disciplinary techniques”. You know, I’d love to point out just how humiliated Sullivan

From the American Spectator, “SWIFT Deposits”: According to Treasury and Justice Department officials familiar with the briefings their senior leadership undertook with editors and reporters from the New York Times and Los Angeles Times, the media outlets were told that their reports on the SWIFT financial tracking system presented risks for three ongoing terrorism financing investigations. Despite this information, both papers chose to move forward with their stories. “We didn’t

From the August/September Reason, Charles Oliver, “Brickbats”: The government of Saudi Arabia has banned men from selling women’s lingerie.  The law also requires stores that sell such lingerie to conceal the section from the rest of their customers. Which, of course, provides women additional job opportunities, so from a feminist’s standpoint, treating women’s underwear as an embarrassment and appending to its display and sale certain cultural taboos can be considered