Tom Maguire has a great post up about La Plame’s pension files and the light they might shed on her “covert” status with respect to the legal definition under IIPA. One key issue from the statutory definition of “covert agent” is whether Ms. Plame met the requirement for service abroad.  From Mr. Taranto: Left unanswered is the question of when Plame has her last overseas assignment; if it was before

Hell, no!  He won’t go! Columnist and author Eric Cartman Alterman was arrested Sunday night inside the debate spin room and charged with criminal trespass after police say he refused repeated orders to leave. Goffstown, N.H. police say Alterman was in the spin room as a guest of the Creative Coalition and went to an area reserved for a private reception for WMUR-TV. Police say he was asked by an

Ben Smith at The Politico: The news, though, seems to be that Hillary is repudiating her long (if tepidly) held support for the Defense of Marriage Act, which her husband signed, and which drew her criticism in New York. Her unadvertised shift is a very big deal, and reflects, among other things, the rapidly shifting national terrain on the issue. UPDATE: Clinton’s spokesman points me to the text of her

OpinionJournal on useful idiots including ex-CIA Robert Baer and Sy Hersch: For example, what did the former CIA agent Robert Baer mean in Time magazine, when he wrote that the Lebanese government should “know better” than to believe that Fatah al-Islam is a Syrian creation, because “at the end of the day Fatah Islam is the Syrian regime’s mortal enemy”? Mr. Baer’s point was that a Lebanese civil war might

Iran’s president insists Iran won’t destroy Israel, but says, “With God’s help, the countdown button for the destruction of the Zionist regime has been pushed by the hands of the children of Lebanon and Palestine,” Ahmadinejad said in a speech. “By God’s will, we will witness the destruction of this regime in the near future,” he said. He did not elaborate. But, we’re told by Iran’s apologists in the blogosphere,

I may start working on a show called ”Sleepf*cker”, about a police investigator who’s trying to track down a sexual predator who’s him.  Much hilarity ensues. I hate it when a perfectly good thread premise like a baby mummy custody battle gets ruined by topicality.

Wretchard details that actions that Chavez is taking against Globovision, now that he’s refused to renew RCTV’s public broadcasting license.  The pretext? The Venezuelan government “filed charges against local network Globovision for what they said was indirectly encouraging Chavez’s murder by airing footage of the 1981 assassination attempt on the late pope John Paul II. ‘In my view, this television network, in this specific part of its programming, committed the

It is a popular misconception that the oracle predicted the future, based on the lapping water and leaves rustling in the trees; the oracle of Delphi never predicted the future, but gave guarded advice on how impiety might be cleansed and incumbent disaster avoided. It has been speculated that greenhouse emissions emerging from the earth exalted the Pithia to an ecstatic state, spurring her oraculations.  And, coincidentally, the Gorbacle thinks