From CENTCOM: Coalition Forces positively identified a terrorist killed in an operation April 20 northwest of Baghdad. Muhammad Abdullah Abbas al-Issawi, also known as Abu Abd al-Sattar and Abu Akram, was a known al-Qaeda terrorist leader known to operate in Karmah and Ameriyah areas and was the al-Qaeda in Iraq Security Emir of the eastern Anbar Province. Coalition Forces were conducting operations targeting associates of a known senior leader within

From the AP: A man accused of threatening a Nevada Republican Party official with a rifle was arrested Tuesday in a vehicle in which police found swords, knives, a shotgun, shells and a flare gun, authorities said. Matthew Hunter Kramer, 31, did not resist officers who arrested him on a warrant issued after the April 3 confrontation at state Republican Party offices in Las Vegas. It wasn’t clear why he

From the AP: A mineral recently discovered in Serbia has the same composition as kryptonite—the fictional substance that robs Superman of his powers—the British Museum said Tuesday. While the material is not a perfect match, its chemical breakdown is strikingly similar. A drill core of the unusual mineral was unearthed in Serbia by the mining group Rio Tinto PLC, which turned it over to mineral expert Chris Stanley at the

From ABC News: ABC has been unable to come to a contractual agreement with Rosie O’Donnell. As a result, her hosting duties on “The View” will come to an end mid-June. Despite controversy — or maybe because of it — O’Donnell was good business for ABC, owned by the Walt Disney Co. Ratings for “The View” during February sweeps were up 15 percent in key women demographics over the same

Though certain anti-war commenters have shown up demanding I address yesterday’s testimony by Kevin Tillman and Jessica Lynch (among others) before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, I don’t really have all much to say about the Waxman-orchestrated anti-Administration PR gambit that I haven’t already posted elsewhere.  Instead, I’ll just quote from Powerline: There is no question that the initial misreporting of the circumstances of Tillman’s death was

O’Reilly and Malkin fairly dismember PBS scion Bill Moyers, who has been peddling his own reality so long that one is tempted to give him the benefit of the doubt and conclude that he has actually come to believe his own delusions. Which is what happens, by the way, when millions of your fellow Americans cheer on the alternate reality you’re selling—knowing full well that it doesn’t jibe with any