I must not debate. Debate is the mind-killer. Debate is the free exchange of ideas that brings total obliteration. I will face debate. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn to blog about its path. Where the debate has gone there will be nothing. Only I (and an ostenation of Glenns) will remain***

“The Happening” will not be the only big-budget studio film to test a new kind of villainy, in which the real victim is the environment, and, whatever the plot variations, the enemy is all of us. Beginning this summer and for months after, movies as diverse as the “The Simpsons Movie,” “Transformers,” a remake of “Creature From the Black Lagoon,” and James Cameron’s “Avatar” will take on environmental themes. The

Sure, Rudy Giuliani is a decent candidate.  But let’s face it:  he’s friendly with the gays, and—try as he might, he’s simply no Newt Gingrich —Well, except for the whole cheating on his wife thing, maybe.  Still, where’s the gray hair of conservative experience? 

Dan has been quite adamant that we should not allow the upcoming Waxman-Plame show hearing to turn into yet a further reification of the bogus victim narrative Plame, the Reid Democrats, and professional liar Joseph Wilson have been peddling for the last several years—a narrative they have been trying to bolster by finessing the outcome of the Libby trial not as an example of an appalling procedural conviction but as

Comedian Richard Jeni dies from a gunshot wound to the face.  Suicide seems likely, though it’s always possible, I suppose, that OJ was over for a visit and didn’t like the dip.  Jeni was 49.

We’ve all been amused by the contortions of HH and others posting here to prove that where there’s smoke, there must be fire, unless the smoke billows out of the ass of an administration critic.  As I pointed out here, Ms. Plame will be singing for Henry Waxman and his committee of wax figures in the House on Friday, before jetting off to a well-deserved retirement and movie deal in

CJ Burch points me to this interesting piece by Joe Gandelman at the Moderate Voice detailing how French Jews are fleeing France and flocking to Florida. Gandelman points to a 2003 Anti Defamation League assessment that concludes: We do not think we are living in France in a particularly anti-Semitic environment. It is obvious to us that there is a revival of anti-Semitism in several other countries. There are beyond

From the AP: Jacques Chirac left one question unanswered: Who will he back to succeed him as France’s president? Fellow conservative Nicolas Sarkozy expects to get Chirac’s nod—despite a longtime rivalry—after the French leader announced Sunday that he will not seek a third term, ending four decades in politics. Advertisement Chirac’s emotive televised farewell to the nation, just six weeks before the election’s first round April 22, drew both praise

By the way, these are the same Democrats who didn’t raise a whimper when Bill Clinton’s Attorney General Janet Reno sacked all 93 U.S. attorneys in one unclean sweep upon taking office. Previous Presidents had kept the attorneys in place until they could replace each one. That was a more serious abuse than anything known about these Bush dismissals. Heh. Public sector peculation: In their favor-seeking, all of the lobbyists