From the Washington Times: House Republicans today surprised Democrats with a procedural vote to protect public-transportation passengers from being sued if they report suspicious activity—the first step by lawmakers to protect “John Doe” airline travelers already targeted in a lawsuit by Muslim imams that charges profiling. The introduction of a motion to recommit the Rail and Public Transportation Security Act of 2007 back to committee with instructions to add the

Seems a German divorce court has decided that Muslim religious law— Koranic dicta—supersedes German civil law. This mirrors an argument made by many German Muslim leaders, who have held that Koranic law trumps national law—meaning that, taking this logic to its inevitable conclusion, there will be separate, sovereign, mini-nations within Germany proper answerable primarily to Koranic law. I eagerly await the German court ruling that allows for slavery, citing Exodus

Well, kids, the autopsy results are in, and here’s the final tally:

Glenn’s new article is entitled: Drudge and the Politico—poisonously joined at the hip The new online political magazine, The Politico, is a pernicious new presence in our media landscape. As I noted the other day, it really is nothing more than the Drudge Report dressed up with the trappings of mainstream media credibility. Today, Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Daily News writes on his blog about what is merely the

From David Rivkin Jr. and Lee Casey, both Reagan and George H.W. Bush administration Justice Department members, writing in the WSJ: Winning a war is a difficult business under the best of circumstances. In democratic polities, the prospects for victory dim whenever there is strong domestic opposition, as there is today with respect to the handling of both Iraq and the broader war on terror. HOW DARE YOU QUESTION THEIR

Sen. Pryor, apparently desperate to flip-flop from his March 15th vote opposing a timetable for US withdrawal from Iraq, has come up with an idea so wacky that one is tempted to think he stole it from Sen. Arlen Spector:

From the Minnesota Star Tribune: […] Consider some less-talked-about signs of accommodation: Minneapolis Community and Technical College is poised to become the state’s first public school to install a foot-washing basin to help the school’s 500 Muslim students perform pre-prayer rituals. “We want to be welcoming,” MCTC President Phil Davis said, noting a student was hurt trying to wash in a regular sink. Several nights a week, dozens of immigrants

So that’s why I can’t find my tie clip whenever I’m in a hurry!

From Betsy Newmark: When College Board announced that they were adding a writing component to the SATs, critics alleged that there was no way to legitimately grade the writing of that many essays each year and that the test would devolve down into writing formulaic essays. Well, now an MIT professor has written a paper outlining what students need to do to game the test and present the illusion of

On the heels of the Howard Kurtz article, Online, Churls Gone Vile, which I gently mocked here, particularly for referencing the word “douchebag” as “feminine hygiene product,” (considering the actual obscenity that one encounters in newspapers), blogger Kathy Sierra of the site Creating Passionate Users, which is about coding, has been subject to a variety of vile comments and threats.  This has caused her to cancel a teaching engagement at