Fox News says yes, indeed (citing Israeli intelligence as its source).  Via Ace, who asks: What if Israel now bombs Teheran to the ground? Is such a tactic acceptable, as long as we don’t dirty our virgin hands with such terrible barbarism? Got My Answer: I’m told that Israel can only attempt attacks on purely military targets, despite the fact that Israel’s enemies are free to attack population centers. Because

Interesting.  But while there’s a lot of talk about the tearing down of barbed wire fencing, the dismantling of checkpoints, and unicorns running free across the Levant (where they frolic with the peaceful sandal peoples), the author misses the most important benefit of all:  lower short-term interest rates! To their credit, not even the Kossacks are swallowing this one.  In fact, one comment offered this bit of prescient exasperation: Good

From ABC News: The CIA officer whose identity was leaked to reporters sued Vice President Dick Cheney, his former top aide and presidential adviser Karl Rove on Thursday, accusing them and other White House officials of conspiring to destroy her career. In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court, Valerie Plame and her husband, Joseph Wilson, a former U.S. ambassador, accused Cheney, Rove and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby of revealing

Several people disagreed with my earlier readings of the Hamdan ruling, suggesting that I was making too much of the decisions’ having bestowed upon illegal combatants Common Article 3 protections that, given a governmental and elite culture that often proceeds from overtly ridiculous (and historically dubious) PC sensibilities, I felt would almost certainly be exploited by civil liberties absolutists and anti-war propagandists who, let’s face it, are always willing to

United Airlines counter attendant: “Any baggage today, Mr Rather?” Rather: “”Yes, I have baggage.  I have the baggage of being a graduate of the journalism school of South Vietnam.” * United Airlines counter attendant: United Airlines counter attendant: “Uh, okay.” United Airlines counter attendant: “Well, I’m fairly certain self-importance and unintended self-parody are considered carry-on items.  So you should be good to go, sir.” **** (h/t Martin; see also, Hot

Constant updates at Pajamas Media and Hot Air, where Allah uses wire reports to confirm Debka’s earlier report that “Iran’s national security adviser Ali Larijani flies to Damascus aboad special military plane Wednesday night as war tension builds…. Iranian air force, missile units and navy are also on high alert…. Israel began calling up an armored division, air crews and technicians from the reserves Wednesday night.” The Iran-Syria defense pact.