Sure, I’m all for a woman’s “right to choose” … what to cook me for dinner! **** update: FREE TED HAGGARD!

A blogger whom I don’t know named Ben Buckman quotes Sully this way: If parents tore the skin off their infants in any other part of the body, they’d be arrested for abuse. The great unmentionable, of course, is that religion, not medicine, is behind this practice – Judaism and Islam, to be precise. Many secular men, in other words, bear the scars of someone else’s religion on their own

What do you get when you fill an anthropomorphic coffin with vinegar and water?

Bill Roggio has the latest on the coalition initiatives in Iraq, and according to Michael Yon, who emailed Reynolds, things are going very well. But what I’d like to consider is the economics of the situation. As we know, part of bin-Laden’s plot was to cause the collapse of the US economy. It is true that the war has been costly, but fortunately this has been largely offset by economic

Cameron Diaz has committed a fashionista faux pas in Peru: While explor[ing] the Inca city of Machu Picchu* high in Peru’s Andes, Diaz wore over her shoulder an olive green messenger bag emblazoned with a red star and the words “Serve the People” printed in Chinese on the flap, perhaps Chinese Communist leader Mao’s most famous political slogan. While the bags are marketed as trendy fashion accessories in some world

There are a few bloggers who I used to read regularly who kind of disappeared or changed their format until relatively recently. They are Michele and Tanya. Michele gave me my first taste of blogging for an audience beyond the small circle of people who knew me on a site I maintained on the University computer system while I was still in grad school. She put out an open invitation

or what happened to Doris Day could happen to you: Sorry. Doesn’t want to load Flash.

Glenn Greenwald(s), distilled: “I’m the kind of true patriot who dissents first and asks questions later. Just as Thomas Jefferson would have wanted. — “That, and a New York Times best-selling author whose work has been read into the Congressional record, and whose posts are often cited favorably by the conservative libertarians at Reason. “Seriously. Just ask Mona.” All true. Patriotically true. Unfortunately, though, when you have a reputation for

Via American Thinker: Al Jazeera is reporting that Venezuelan strong man Hugo Chavez is threatening to expropriate oil and gas assets of Exxon Mobil, ConocoPhillips, Chevron Corp, Norway’s Statoil, Britain’s BP Plc and France’s Total. According to Al Jazeera these assets produce 600,000 barrels of crude oil a day. Well, who’da thunkit? This threat has been looming for some time. Highlighting how negligent lawmakers have been is the embarrassing fact

Maybe I’ve got my priorities very screwed up, but I find this sort of nonsense much more offensive than, say, nudity. Perhaps it is marginally less a boondoggle than purchasing the “rights” to name a star after someone, but I ran across this disturbing business in an ad hosted on ABC News’ website. The LifeGem ® is a certified, high-quality diamond created from the carbon of your loved one as