Simone: I know you’re right, Pee-wee, but… Pee-wee: Everyone I know has a big “But…” C’mon, Simone, let’s talk about *your* big ”But”. Yaser El-Menshawy, chairman of the Majlis Ash-Shura of New Jersey, the state’s council of mosques, condemned the plot and said he is glad it was not carried out. BUT he said the motivation of people who plot against the government “cannot be stopped simply by law enforcement

It’s come to this.  From Orson Scott Card: In last Sunday’s News and Record, columnist Andrew Brod heaped ridicule on those who dare to contest the religion of global warming. What is his proof? He doesn’t think he needs any. In fact, he’s against proof. He likes it when governments make massive changes without any evidence that those changes are necessary. He spends his whole column citing political documents like

From The Rocky Mountain News: A 21-year old Mesa County man appeared at the courthouse in Grand Junction Tuesday afternoon and walked past a sign saying security personnel will search briefcases, purses and pockets.  he presented himself at the security station and put into a designated tray a marijuana pipe with burnt residue in the bowl.  He was issued a summons for possession of drug paraphernalia. See?  No good deed

But for many security experts, the men’s motivation is what serves as the starkest warning. ”The animosity felt toward the United States isn’t something just outside our borders,” says Bruce Hoffman, a professor of securities studies at Georgetown University in Washington. “There are obviously people inside this country who have the same hostility and are prepared to use violence.” We see this hatred every day from nutroot bloggers and trolls.

At Opinion Journal this morning, Andrew Stark provides the perfect companion reading for George Tenet’s Center of the Storm, an article on apologies and non-apologies. Meanwhile, you can sate your taste for red meat by checking out this article, posted at Bloody Scott.

German Pope Ratzinger has come to Brasil, and Gleen has nothing to say about the phenomenon, preferring to engage in hermeneutics from a safe distance performed on sources as removed as possible from what they treat. The LAT does, though: SAO PAULO, BRAZIL — The pop-idol priest strides to the altar like the star that he is, a rock band pounding away to his right, cameras flashing to his left

Shred away: Posted May 9, 2007 AAN Presents First Annual Molly Ivins Award to Keith Olbermann Source: AAN Contact: Roxanne Cooper Association of Alternative Newsweeklies 202-289-8484 rcooper (at) aan.org New York, NY, May 9, 2007—The Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) announced today that MSNBC news anchor Keith Olbermann is the winner of its first annual Molly Ivins Award. Olbermann’s achievement will be recognized in a ceremony to be held this

Q: What do you get when you cross Ayman al-Zawahiri and, say, Harry Belafonte? A: Pick em!* The progressives will shriek and moan that vile neocons dare draw such equivalences, but when the only difference between the rhetoric of a terror leader and that of grievance-mongering progressives is the absence of the charge to “tally me banana,” it’s time to reach deep into that bag of rationalizations to convince Americans

Iran?  I’m against it.  You?*

I guess I could find time to post today, even though my kid has a high temperature and wants me to lie down with him and watch a few Disney shows.  But, well, I certainly don’t have to—and it ain’t like watching “Johnny and the Sprites” will necessarily make me gay. Right?