Today would have been Frank Sinatra’s 91st birthday.  Scott at Powerline has a post on it, with a couple of amazing videos that got me to thinking about Sinatra’s influence on me.  My dad was a big Sinatra fan, and had all of the Capitol albums in the fifties, so while I was listening to my older sister’s Elvis and doo-wop 45’s, I was also drinking in “Come Fly With

Ha! We knew it. The seeds for the deal were planted in 2004, when Obama got a big-money book contract after winning his Senate seat. With the book cash, he bought a swanky Illinois mansion in June 2005 for $1.65 million. On the same day that Obama closed on the home, Rezko paid $625,000 for the adjacent vacant lot. Six months later, Obama expanded the size of his yard by

We’re used to AP headlines that mischaracterize the war in Iraq in the negative direction, but I thought, just for the record, that I’d point to this headline, which, while up to the usual lack of standards, mischaracterizes the article in a positive direction: Marines in western Iraq see progress The article is a fairly written and informative glimpse into the lives of Marines in western Iraq.  The fact that

Yesterday, I was so caught up in work, that I missed Wuzzadem’s second blogiversary.  John celebrated by posting a hilarious commentary on the Democrat’s tragicomic attempts to fill the “Intelligence” Committee Chair. Happy blogiversary, Wuzzadem, and a javatized sinus warning to the rest of you. UPDATE: speaking of occasions (that’s called a “smooth transition”–and I’ll post the recipe later, but you have to buy a good dark rum), if you

Hey, your face is really plain, isn’t it? The redoubtable news feed that is Terry Hastings points us toward this WSJ editorial concerning the ISG, which dubs the recommendations set forth by the committee worthy of Captain Obvious: Recognizing this reality would produce some truly interesting and radical recommendations. Since Iran and Syria are the most important source of the chaos in Iraq, then we need to topple those regimes.

On the eve of his departure as head of the UN, Koffi burnishes his anti-Bush credentials, thus assuring himself a lifetime of lucrative speaking engagements to left-leaning organizations and American institutions of higher education. Annan, an increasingly vocal critic of the war in Iraq, leaves the United Nations on Dec. 31 after 10 years as secretary-general. He chose the Truman museum for his final major speech in part because it

Even as the UN intends to revise downward its estimates of the impact of humans on global warming, new research suggests that the Arctic ice cap is in trouble (yes, I know that the Artic ice cap is made of fudge) and that as it shrinks it no longer reflects heat back into outer space, and that the heat is largely absorbed by the oceans, causing a positive feedback loop. 

Me?  Darvocet.  The cat?  A freakin’ Fentanyl patch.  Mind you, he did have major abdominal surgery.  I suppose that trumps diverticulitis.  But still.  There’s something wrong with this picture.  You may be asking, “Major abdominal surgery?  For a cat?” Let me put it this way:  My wife is allergic to cats.  When her allergist asked her if she’d considered getting rid of the cats, she said, “Have you considered getting