Nuance.* Makes me wonder what was on the menu. Besides chicken, crow, and Ahmandinejad ass, I mean.

From Investor’s Business Daily: […] George Soros is known for funding groups such as MoveOn.org that seek to manipulate public opinion. So why is the billionaire’s backing of what he believes in problematic? In a word: transparency. How many people, for instance, know that James Hansen, a man billed as a lonely “NASA whistleblower” standing up to the mighty U.S. government, was really funded by Soros’ Open Society Institute, which

Your tax dollars (not) at work. From the WaPo: The White House reached out to National Public Radio over the weekend, offering analyst Juan Williams a presidential interview to mark yesterday’s 50th anniversary of school desegregation in Little Rock. But NPR turned down the interview, and Williams’s talk with Bush wound up in a very different media venue: Fox News. Williams said yesterday he was “stunned” by NPR’s decision. “It

From the WSJ: Two bastions of liberalism are discovering the nasty side of campaign finance reform now that it has landed in their own backyards. On Sunday, a spokeswoman for the New York Times admitted it had “made a mistake” when it charged the radical group MoveOn.org a special discounted rate for an ad accusing General David Petraeus of betrayal in advance of his Congressional testimony. Meanwhile, DailyKos’s Markos Moulitsas

From the NYT: A special military appeals court, overturning a lower court ruling, on Monday removed a legal hurdle that has derailed war crime trials for detainees at Guantanámo Bay, Cuba. The ruling allows military prosecutors to address a legal flaw that had ground the prosecutions to a halt. The decision, by a three-judge panel of a newly formed military appeals court, was an important victory for the government in

From the Islamic Republic News Agency: Despite entire US media objections, negative propagation and hue and cry in recent days over IRI President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s scheduled address at Colombia University, he gave his lecture and answered students questions here on Monday afternoon. The American media establishment, hostile to free speech, stacked the deck against our brave President. But stalwart in spirit and confident in his convictions, Mahmoud perservered. On second

Hot Air has the video. Obvious follow-up question: Is this a scientific anomaly based on some sort of Persian resistance to chemical differences in the brain? Or were, like, stones involved? **** update: Students applaud and cheer; Dean Coatsworth shakes Mahmoud’s hand. Like I said he would. Next up, stuffed shrimp and a bit of hobnobbing with the earnest chin-rubbers from the cultural studies and English departments. All in all,

…but I’m beginning to suspect Dilbert might just be the kind of cubicle jockey who in his free time would happily go door-to-door in support of a Wesley Clark/Jim Moran presidential ticket — not because he hates the Jews, mind you. But rather because he just doesn’t like to see them controlling US foreign policy while simultaneously oppressing and murdering the Palestinian people. Besides, he’s read Portnoy’s Complaint. So let’s

It would’ve taken me less than five minutes to unload the dishwasher — but rather than putting away freshly scrubbed plates and glasses, I decided to relax, read the sports page, and enjoy a blueberry muffin, instead. Best decision of the morning, I think — though there’s no telling what I’d do had I the same choice to make all over again. Which, I suppose, is why I’m such a