Scandalized by David Brooks’s appearance on the Jim Lehrer Newshour, in which Brooks opined that it demonstrated fundamental dishonesty that the same people screaming for heads to roll over the revelation of Valerie Plame’s CIA employment didn’t care that it was Armitage, Larry strikes back. Larry has now revealed that David Brooks lives in an expensive house, but his mailbox is an eyesore. What a disingenuous bastard! If Joe Wilson

Captain Ed notes a NYT article (in the Style section) that ponders whether Americans are ready for a trophy wife as First Lady, with respect to Fred! Ed’s pissed off at the implication that he married her only for her looks, and she married him only for power and prestige. I, on the other hand, am amused at the wording of the article, which is entitled “Will Her Face Determine

author of Nanny State, has a new blog up. Nothing to see there, yet, but I’m confident we’ll be visiting soon and often.

Haven’t any time this morning, as Mary’s desperate to get us out of the house so she can get some work done, but the article in today’s WaPo gives us a clearer picture of the motives of this “jihadi wannabe.” Bilal Abdulla, one of the two doctors arrested after a blazing Jeep Cherokee rammed into the Glasgow Airport terminal on Saturday, is a deeply religious Iraqi who was angry that

Some of the MSM are apparently beginning to wake up regarding the presence of al-Qaeda in Iran. Evidence that Iranian territory is being used as a base by al-Qaeda to help in terrorist operations in Iraq and elsewhere is growing, say western officials. It is not clear how much the al-Qaeda operation, described by one official as a money and communications hub, is being tolerated or encouraged by the Iranian

I dig her.

Leftists shrug. Again. An underground prison containing hundreds of bodies has been discovered in Afghanistan. The prison, a former military barracks on the outskirts of the capital, Kabul, dates from the Soviet occupation of the 1980s, officials say. A senior police officer in Kabul says that many of the bodies were found blindfolded with arms tied. The find was revealed by a 70-year-old Afghan who worked for the Russians and

Rich Lowry, The Corner: At first I thought that commuting Libby’s sentence was a reasonable compromise—keeping him from serving prison time, but letting the jury verdict stand. But now I don’t think it makes any sense. There’s an incoherence at the heart of the administration’s case. It says that Libby’s sentence was excessive. But technically, it’s not. It’s only excessive if you think it was a politicized prosecution and never

I’ve written a bit on the topic of how doggedly the left holds to its ideological fantasies about Islamic terrorists’ acting out of economic desperation, even as a trove of empirical evidence is making it increasingly untenable to maintain such a (romanticized socio-economic) narrative. That is, unless you’re willing to ignore jihadists themselves — or recast them as “Neocon poster boys.” Which, now that I think about it, might not