(The following is cross-posted to The McGehee Zone—but I want people to actually see it, so…) Seeing the link for this New York Times story on Drudge just crystallized something for me. From the article: Every morning, representatives from a cluster of antiwar groups gather for a conference call with Democratic leadership staff members in the House and the Senate. Shortly after, in a cramped meeting room here, they convene

From time to time to time, I have looked at the issue of whether criticism of Islamic fundamentalism, and the Afghan and Iraq campaigns, are counter-productive in the sense that they breed more terrorists.  So far the answer seems to have been that the increases in terrorist incidents have been almost entirely in Iraq, and that critics of Operation Iraqi Freedom (and the subset in the media) like to have

to petition Jeff to keep us in the know regarding Paris Hilton’s jail diaries. Now . . . Karl, or Darleen, or Cranky, or McGehee, or ANYBODY . . . please take over before I post again! UPDATE: There’s something about Paris that puts me in mind of these Nick Lowe lyrics . . .

WTF?  Vote for me or they’ll hurt you? France risks violence and brutality if conservative candidate Nicolas Sarkozy wins tomorrow’s presidential election, his Socialist opponent, Ségolène Royal, said yesterday. On the last day of official campaigning, opinion polls indicated that Sarkozy was enjoying a commanding lead over Royal, who accused the former interior minister of lying and polarizing France. “Choosing Nicolas Sarkozy would be a dangerous choice,” Royal told RTL

*****Cross-posted from Bloody Scott***** You may have heard of the incident in which a tanker truck burst into flames on an underpass in California, creating heat so intense that it melted the steel girders of the overpass above, causing it to collapse, despite Rosie O’Donnell’s observation that “you can’t melt steel.” There obviously thus arise questions over how this may have occurred, using what means, and for what purpose. Yesterday,

A Protein Wisdom MultiCulti Production Shaha?  Are you there? Sorry.  We seem to have some trouble with our audio feed. It’s insultan, I tells ya.

“Mother Sykes, she dead” Via Michelle Malkin, from my hometown, Milwaukee, comes this stunning tale of far-left compassion. I have only one thing to say to Michael McGee: “Yo mama, you nappy-headed political ho.” Head ”Nappy”? You know, my instincts tell me that Mr. McGee started that fire, because he hates old white ladies who live in nice suburbs. You can add your own regards to Mr. McGee in comments,

Today Jeff is engaged in the hypermasculine practice known as barbeque, and there were many things that I’d hoped to bring to this forum, but the call has gone out for extra people to work today at the business, and my wife advises me that overtime pay would be welcome, so I’ll be off-line most of the day.  I think before I leave I have just enough time to yark