Feels sad about Teddy, but finally gets to be Massachusetts’ Senior Senator! The Day Lebanon Died Related Sad, really.  It seems not so long ago that we were excited by Lebanese Protest Babes:   And it could have been, too, if the “international community” had . . . ah, well: none of that.  They weren’t even aware of the Syrian reactor that the Israelis took out, were they? No, much

>Comment by Chuck Adkins on 5/21 @ 6:15 pm # Left in my comment section of my Blog. Chuckie, Dan Collins, Jeff Goldstein’s mini-me, is calling you a bad person. This is from a guy who stalks his exes on the internet, calls Glenn Greenwald a faggot, uses the word “nigromancy” as a clever allusion to Obama’s charm, and knows people in his grad school hated him because he wore

At The Atlantic, Megan McArdle asks, “Are conservatives out of ideas?” Her answer, unsurprisingly (to me, anyway) is “yes,” though she adds: There is, however, a nascent optimism in the conservative and libertarian policy worlds. The last five years have been pretty demoralizing. Now I’m seeing more and more people who are actually looking forward to going into the wilderness for a little while, where they can get their heads

At the L.A. Times, Peter Wallsten reports on Barack Obama’s new organizational and outreach efforts in the Sunshine state: The extended fight with Clinton helped Obama build volunteer networks and burnish his get-out-the-vote techniques in less populous general-election battleground states, such as Colorado. But winning Florida’s 27 Electoral College votes will require him to build his campaign machinery almost from scratch. *** The Florida efforts are being replicated nationally, with

Walid Phares.At the same time, the Syrians are reaching out to Israel?  Can that possibly mean that they’d dash the hopes of the “Palestinians” in exchange for the Golan Heights?  Somehow, I don’t find that credible.My suggestion is that US forces might occupy a portion of Syria roughly equivalent in size to Lebanon without a great deal of trouble.  Then we can talk. Related: According to Palestinian Media Watch, the ‘Palestinian’

…Well, only in the UK, for the time being. But there’s always hope that our legislators and justices will look abroad to find out what the sophisticates are doing and, in a perverse reversal of the impetus for founding this country, seek the approbation of their English betters. After all, what good is having a “Living Constitution” if it can’t vacation over seas now and then, and bring back a

Identity-theft amnesty:  As everyone knows, America is experiencing an epidemic of identity theft. In the last five years alone, complaints to the Federal Trade Commission from U.S. residents who have had their identity stolen have skyrocketed 60 percent, to 258,427 in 2007—one-third of all consumer fraud complaints that the commission receives. What’s less well understood, however, is how illegal immigration is helping to fuel this rash of crime. Seeking access

White Christians are “make pretend” believers and conservative Christians emulate the people who killed Jesus, according to articles in a controversial magazine run by Sen. Barack Obama’s longtime pastor that paint traditional Christianity as false and racist.Stanley Kurtz, a National Review Online contributor, concluded after reviewing two years of Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Trumpet Magazine that the Trinity United Church of Christ pastor practices a black liberation theology brand of Christianity

that stating the truth about liars doesn’t constitute libel: Israel Radio’s Paris correspondent Gil Michaeli has just reported that the French Court of Appeals has overturned the libel judgment against Phillipe Karsenty and has determined that Karsenty did not libel France 2 correspondent Charles Enderlin when he reported that the ‘death’ of 12-year old Mohamed Al-Dura at Netzarim in the Gaza Strip in September 2000 may have been staged, and

Reuters ran a story Sunday that largely slipped beneath the radar: Democrat Barack Obama said on Sunday he would pursue a vigorous antitrust policy if he becomes U.S. president and singled out the media industry as one area where government regulators would need to be watchful as consolidation increases. “I will assure that we will have an antitrust division that is serious about pursuing cases,” the Illinois senator told an