Why in the name of Grover friggin’ Nordquist was Colorado Attorney General John Suthers flown to Saudi Arabia—on the taxpayers’ dime—to justify the sentence of a Coloradan of Saudi descent convicted of keeping a slave? As David Harsanyi quips in his Denver Post column, which deftly details the story of Suthers, State, and Homaidan Al-Turki, Colorado resident and son of a Saudi imam:  “Wouldn’t it have made more sense to

Just to follow up on my post yesterday regarding public perception (particularly among the working class, whose ranks represented the biggest voter shift) and November’s electoral victory for the Democrats, I’d like to point you to this piece by Reihan Salam and Atlantic Monthly associate editor Ross Douthat, “What Is the Matter with Kansas?  Economic populism makes a comeback,” which is able to further (and better) articulate some of the

Cites natural law: The Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, has told African and European government ministers that they must accept high levels of cross-border migration. Mr Gaddafi told ministers gathered for a conference on migration from Africa to the EU that resisting migration “is like rowing against the stream”. “The current populations of the world are originally migrants,” he said. Libya is hosting a two-day conference aiming to agree a common

We never stoop to an open thread.  No, we don’t.  But here is where the Protein Wisdom community can liveblog their Thanksgivings. Hehe!

Well.  I spent most of the morning at Urgent Care, and found out I was having an attack of diverticuliiiiiiiiitissss.  So, doctor’s orders, I can only ingest liquids for at least the next couple of days, and I can’t go back to work until Monday.  Which means that I’m gonna lose a shitload of commission from today and Black Friday, and I won’t be able to eat turkey, mashed potatos,

Turkeys Try to Catch Train Out of N.J. Some wild turkeys, it appears, were trying to get out of New Jersey With apologies to my Jersey buds.

**** Authentic, Fresh, Somewhat Lengthy Jeff Goldstein Post on Next Page! **** That’s the LAT headline.  For crying out loud, what does it require for them to take cognizance of Red Staters? The debate about whether there’s a Neanderthal skeleton in our collective closet was revived last week when two groups of scientists reported that they had deciphered DNA from the thigh bone of a Neanderthal man who lived in

An Ideologue for Hire Gets New Alliance Senator Joseph I. Lieberman announced Tuesday that he had hired a new spokesman, which is not in itself that noteworthy, except that the said spokesman, Marshall Wittmann, is one of the great career vagabonds, ideological contortionists and political pontificators ever to inflict himself on a city full of them. To say that Mr. Wittmann defies classification is like saying Paris Hilton defies modesty.

The defeated left-wing candidate in Mexico’s presidential election, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has held an unofficial swearing-in ceremony. During his “inauguration” in Mexico City, Mr Lopez Obrador said he was launching a “parallel government”. He claims he was the victim of fraud in July’s election – a view shared by millions of Mexicans. But some of his supporters think his alternative inauguration is ill-advised and politically irresponsible. Gee, ya think?