Military sees big decline in black enlistees Must be time to reinstate the draft, right Charlie? (Authentic, fresh Goldstein posts below) My boy Preston’s fagblogging Monday Night Football over at Six Meat Buffet. Go, Faggots! Jane Smiley at the Huffpo: Who’s Sorry, Now? Is this a trick question, Jane? Cuz I’m thinking you’re still sorry.

Excerpt from Kurtz’s book, on sale tomorrow: The night before the story was tentatively scheduled to air, Rather was sitting at the anchor desk, with less than half an hour before the start of the Evening News. He called Josh Howard, who had recently been named as executive producer of 60 Minutes Wednesday, and asked what they were doing to promote his story. “We’re not,” Howard said. “We haven’t gotten

Malkin has the most to lose for having had the temerity to look into it (i.e., “stalk the family,” according to the left). What’s the true financial status of the Frosts? Probably somewhere in between what I reported last night and Faiz at Think Progress reports today. If I was wrong, I’ll send a personal apology to the family, as well as eat crow here.

“People continually replay negative experiences.” “People continually replay negative experiences.” “People continually replay negative experiences.” h/t Hot Air

…By pulling for the Bronx Bombers tonight against the Tribe — Erie heathens, the lot of them, with their flying bug minions blaspheming all that is holy in October. Not that I have any kind of special feelings for the Yankees, understand. It’s just that, well, all things considered, I like Drakkar and thin crust pepperoni pizza a whole lot better than, like, owls and corn. Bless you, Columbus. And

These are not happy days for the worldwide al Qaeda brand. Having focused most of its energies on fighting in Iraq, the movement has all but disappeared from the scene in other parts of the global jihad, notably the Caucasus, southern Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, Kashmir and the Arabian Peninsula.

Good stuff from Christopher Taylor, that supplements Darleen’s post from yesterday.  Both of them deserve Instalanches, IMO.

I apologize for having been so splenetic yesterday, but a troll put me out of sorts in the morning, and I had the impulse to make the site experience as unpleasant for it as it was making it for me.  Today, David Thompson directs us to noted right-wing hater Todd Gitlin’s new book, which critiques the present-day left (amazing that Clarissa Pinkola Estes’s wiki can be so full, and his mostly