Next time a progressive taxation supporter lays out the case for higher taxes, citing better roads and schools and maintaining public parks, etc. as justification—point him or her to this post at Sweetness and Light. Then, as s/he sputters outs a strained response, politely interrupt and ask for $50 so you can buy a McDonald’s Value Meal for each of the 15 Christianist buddies you’ll be driving down to the

Hot Air is tracking the story closely.  Meanwhile, the sociologists at the Democratic Underground are in thesis-framing mode, already placing the blame where it belongs—with the NRA.  Because clearly, had we simply banned guns, nobody would have been hurt.  And in fact, as one commenter at Hot Air pointed out, because guns are already illegal at Virginia Tech, this shooting must never really have taken place.  See?  Reality-based. Next up: 

One might be tempted to label the Akadema AXX21 a “progressive” glove, given its attempts to redefine the outfielder’s mitt.  After all, you’d never catch, say, Pat Buchanan tracking down flies with something black as tar and boasting a 3-finger stall and a doubleflex hinge. In fact, it is this very kind of position-specific micromanagement and insistence on deviating from traditional glove design that would tend, in the mind of

Q: How many Japanese men does it take to change a lightbulb? A: Depends.  Are there asses on fire at the time?  Because from what I hear, that can make all the difference. (h/t Major John)

HERE LIES THE WEST: HEY, REMEMBER THAT TIME WE KICKED THE LIVING HELL OUT OF THE KRAUTS AND THE IMPERIAL JAPS, THEN CAME HOME AND MADE BABIES AND HAD MEATLOAF? GOOD TIMES…* (h/t CJ Burch)

Well, the good news is, it blows to all hell Rosie O’Donell’s studied, scientific views on the matter… From Newsday: France’s foreign intelligence service learned as early as January 2001 that al-Qaida was preparing a hijacking plot likely to involve a U.S. airplane, former intelligence officials said Monday, confirming a report that also said the CIA received the warning. Le Monde newspaper said it had obtained 328 pages of classified

April 16, 1962: Walter Cronkite takes over as CBS Evening News anchor, replacing Doug Edwards.  Now, forty-five years later, American journalism still hasn’t managed to get the twin smells of pomposity and self-loathing out of the love seat. A generation of Cambodians could not be reached for comment. And that’s the way it is…

HERE LIES THE WEST: WE WOULD HAVE GOTTEN AWAY WITH IT, TOO, IF IT WASN’T FOR THOSE MEDDLING KIDS…* (h/t LGF)

For Don Ho to die just so that I could joke that the name is now available for Don Imus to use.  I met Mr. Ho in 1974.  Nice guy. Also, Pravda has the real, true story behind the Imus firing. That is all.

At least, that’s what the Big Tent Democrat is arguing at Talk Left. In the first 100 Days of the Democrat-led Congress, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Tom Lantos set out for Syria on a “bold end run around President Bush,” with Lantos declaring that the Democrats have have “an alternative Democratic foreign policy.” Pelosi said in a televised news conference from the Syrian capital that