From Al Jazeera: The United Nations has extended its mandate for US-led forces in Iraq after the country’s foreign minister said they were “vitally necessary” for security and regional stability. Hoshyar Zebari called the UN security council’s move “very positive for Iraq”. He said all Security Council members understood “what the Iraqi government is facing”, illustrated by the bombing of Samarra’s Askariya shrine on Wednesday by “terrorists … seek to

—Which, to be honest, I’d forgotten all about, until the ACLU sent me an automated email.  At which point I dutifully yanked myself off the couch, thanked the four hobos I’ve been keeping as wash room attendants for their tireless towel and condom service, and handed them each a fiver and slice of buttered bread before unchaining them and forcing them out into the yard with the business end of

Stuart Taylor, in The National Journal, on the May 29 SCOTUS Title VII Ledbetter ruling—5-4, with the conservatives in the majority—which the NYT opined, “struck a blow for discrimination this week”: Are Alito and company really such heartless, pro-discrimination brutes? Hardly. Ginsburg’s dissent was well put. But Alito had the better of the argument as to congressional language and the Court’s own precedents, in my view. And as a policy

Yes.  Harry Reid is a brave man.  A strong man.  A man who speaks his mind and is not afraid to tell a General to his face that he’s incompetent! Or maybe that’s not what he was saying at all.  Here’s Greg Sargent at TPM Cafe, schooling us on the importance of “context”: [Reid’s “incompetent” remark concerning General Pace] was in the context of a discussion of Alberto Gonzales and

oatmeal:  “Sure, I once spent an entire evening trying to get into Betty Crocker’s pants— who hasn’t?  Turns out she’s more into the Little Debbie snack cake type, though.  Which, there’s nothing wrong with that, of course—I just wish I’d known it before I blew $50 on top shelf margaritas and about a half-dozen Slippery Nipples, is all…”

The power of groupthink again asserts itself as the MSM frames the narrative on the latest quarterly report from the Pentagon. The Washington Post declares there has been “No Drop in Iraq Violence Seen Since Troop Buildup” in a strory by Anne Scott Tyson (who has been known to take dictation from antiwar groups): Three months into the new U.S. military strategy that has sent tens of thousands of additional

Turns out the explanation is pretty simple:  It hasn’t even fucking begun yet in earnest. The Reid Doctrine:  preemptively declaring defeat before allowing a military strategy to begin—all so that people calling themselves “Atrios” or “TRex” will like you. Statesmanship, Democrat-style! (h/t FA)

From Pajamas Media: To gauge the extent of the demise of Europe, look no further than the story of the male gorilla that escaped at a Rotterdam zoo last month. After managing to get over a moat, the 400-pound primate brutally attacked a woman who had been visiting the zoo regularly to see the animal. Because female gorillas establish prolonged eye contact when they want to mate, biologists concluded that

Sometimes a reader will send along something that is a post all in itself.  Like the following, for instance, from Gary Schamburg: So—my first look at the web this morning starts at the Drudge Report and the headlines . . . The Surge has failed and Reid calls military officer “incompetent.” And yes—WE, that’s ALL American citizens, should be mad as hell!  This past week, Sen Reid’s approval rating was