Earlier today I linked to a piece about PBS’ (potentially politically motivated) shelving of Islam vs Islamists.  Now, thanks to Charles and one of his readers at LGF, we get a glimpse into who PBS charged with judging the final product: LGF reader Paul Green emailed some interesting information about one member of the five-member panel that reviewed the documentary, DePaul University Professor Aminah McCloud. McCloud apparently showed some footage

I guess because Pelosi’s last trip was so well-received and all: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Tom Lantos, D-San Mateo, just back from a trip to Syria that sparked sharp criticism from Republicans and the Bush administration, suggested Tuesday that they may be interested in taking another diplomatic trip – to open a dialogue with Iran. The Democratic speaker from San Francisco and Lantos, chairman of the House Foreign

How the West was lost, redux. Time to start penning those epitaphs, I guess. HERE LIES THE WEST WHO, BEFORE IT WENT BELLY UP, AT LEAST LEARNED HOW TO MAKE A DECENT PIZZA AND SOME ENJOYABLE PORN

“Two Marines say Target store booted them for recruiting”: Two Marines in their dress uniforms – the ones with white hats, khaki shirts and blue trousers with red stripe – say they were accused of recruiting at a Target department store here and told to leave. “We weren’t recruiting,” according to Cpl. Carlos Rodriguez, 22, who said he returned in October from his second combat tour in Iraq. “I just

Tu quoque?  Uncomfortable truth?  I cut and paste, you decide.  From an editorial in today’s Rocky Mountain News: The flap also spotlights one other issue. As John McWhorter, a black scholar with the Manhattan Institute, wrote this week, “Where, after all, did Imus pick up the very terminology he used? Rap music and the language young black people use themselves on the street to refer to one another.” The Revs.

Well, at least we’ll always have the patriarchy, eh Amanda? (via ESPN Sportscenter; story here.)

Fonda:  “When I was working on Two People, I pinched a handful of Lindsay Wagner’s 714s from her trailer without asking—only to have her rat me out to Bob Wise, then lecture me on what she called my ‘drug problem.’ Which really harshed my mellow, because she was zoomed on blond hash at the time—and when I asked her for a taste, the little princess just slammed the trailer door

This post could have been a lot longer.  But it’s not like there’s a law or anything.

From Jacob Sullum’s fantastic “An Epidemic of Meddling,” May 2007 Reason (subscribers only): What do these four “public health” problems—smoking, playing violent video games, overeating, and gambling [framed as such by, respectively, Henry Waxman, Hillary Clinton, Surgeon General Richard Carmona, and Thom White Wolf Fassett (general secretary of the United Methodist General Board of Church and Society(] have in common?  They’re all things that some people enjoy and other people