Nah. Just a chipmunk. Dang it. But I’m sure I saw the armadillo zipping around there too. If I can get a shot of him I’ll post it here.

Any number of the usual suspects—ThinkProgress, MyDD and AMERICAblog, among others, are trying to make political hay from Iraq surge-supporting Sen. John McCain’s statements in 1993 and 1994 supporting the withdrawal of US troops from Somalia and Haiti… BECAUSE OF THE HYPOCRISY!!! To drive the point home, they are all embedding YouTubed video of the statements posted by by the antiwar group Americans Against Escalation in Iraq.  Left unmentioned is

me: “How.” Iron Eyes Cody:  “How what?” me: me: me:  “Nevermind.”

which it then proceeds to blow (though not in the self-debasing way). AUSTIN — A package left at a women’s clinic that performs abortions contained an explosive device capable of inflicting serious injury or death, investigators said today. “It was in fact an explosive device,” said David Carter, assistant chief of the Austin Police Department. “It was configured in such a way to cause serious bodily injury or death.” The

Presented to allow you a glimpse into the mind of one of those benevolent nannystatists who presumes to know better than the founding father’s just how to protect a society from itself.  Here’s Dan Simpson, retired diplomat and member of the editorial boards of The Blade and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in all his problem-solving glory: [H]ow would one disarm the American population? First of all, federal or state laws would need

Okay.  So that’s not the title the WaPo gives his op-ed, but we may as well just cut to the chase.  From “One Choice in Iraq”: Last week a series of coordinated suicide bombings killed more than 170 people. The victims were not soldiers or government officials but civilians—innocent men, women and children indiscriminately murdered on their way home from work and school. If such an atrocity had been perpetrated

From the Weekly Standard’s “Scrapbook”: See if you can parse the Senate Majority Leader’s position on partial-birth abortion. He voted for the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, which last week was upheld 5-4 by the Supreme Court. His reaction? “A lot of us wish that Alito [supporting the bill Reid backed] weren’t there and O’Connor were there”—in which event the measure likely would have been struck down. According to

Thanks to a story by Marc Fisher in the WaPo, I am able to state definitively why the VaTech shooter went on his rampage. You may recall that among the significant details about Cho’s family that were revealed to us by the legacy media, we found that his family live in an off-white two-story house in the DC suburbs.  Further, we discovered that his parents own a dry-cleaning business and