Seems like just yesterday that the L.A. Times and the AP were putting out civilian casualty figures from anonymous Iraqi government sources that did not gibe with prior reports from the LAT or the AP. The New York Times sees those numbers and raises them, again based on “unofficial” reports from Iraqi Interior Ministry officials: American and Iraqi government officials here are extremely reluctant to provide regular, comprehensive figures for

Some of the guys are back to posting. Please drop over there and give them a wave. Also, Smantix has retired from Six Meat Buffet (at least for the nonce), but you have a chance to meet “tiny elvis”. You may want to go drop by Cythen’s place for a disturbing post about the horrors of fat Mexican ROAD HEAD. Ewwww!

We haven’t mentioned this here at PW, but the ever-charming and classy Geraldo Rivera has stated that he’ll spit on Michelle Malkin if ever he runs into her. Personally, I think Malkin would probably kick his ass. Here’s your chance to let Mr. Rivera know what you’ll do to him, should you ever run into him. Because of the machismo.

Drum complained about “Gen. Petraeus’s PR blizkrieg” and got spanked by the general’s PAO, Col. Steven Boylan.  I give Drum credit for printing the reply at length.  I woud add, however, that the myth about Gen. Petraeus only briefing the GOP arose because Sen. Carl Levin was the only Democrat who bothered to attend Gen. Petraeus’s briefing.

Glazov: OK, let’s turn to your new book now, Indoctrination U: The Left’s War Against Academic Freedom. Tell us what it is about and the journey that led to it. David Horowitz: First it’s about how our universities are being turned into training camps for the anti-American, anti-capitalist left, and what can be done about it. Second, it’s about what happens to someone who attempts to get professors to present

More for Karl’s Haditha Addendum from Denis Keohane at American Thinker: The anti war Democrats and the left insist they care about the troops. Press them on that very thing, and demand Congressional investigation based on the following: 1) The Marines were presumed guilty well before the investigation and they had their rights to self defence exercised, and it was not just Murtha, as I’ll show. 2) There were months

Ha, Beldar! Mark Steyn‘s got my back (in a Viking way)! (h/t Insty)

The description of Mrs. Merdle from Little Dorrit: The lady was not young and fresh from the hand of Nature, but was young and fresh from the hand of her maid. She had large unfeeling handsome eyes, and dark unfeeling handsome hair, and a broad unfeeling handsome bosom. As you can see, Dickens finds a way repeatedly, palpably, to interject his feeling hands into the description.

In the revolving click-through ads, you can date Iraqi women, take a quiz to find out whether you’re gay, take a poll on gay marriage, find out about gay surrogacy options, and peruse gay and lesbian diamond rings (who’d have known that they have sexual preferences?!) among other things. Because of teh homophobia and xenophobia.

I don’t suppose Michael Ledeen will mind my quoting his short post in its entirety: I’ve been saying for some time that Syria is an Iranian colony, and that the defense pact the two signed several months ago was a serious matter. Now the Reform Party of Syria, which I trust, has just sent out the following: New IRGC base near Homs RPS News — The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps