For the contrast: We need lots of prayers tonight for a clean MRI tomorrow and for continued peace for Eric and I. Matthew’s one year MRI is only about 14 hours away. Most aggressive brain cancers will return within a year if treatment hasn’t worked, so this is a really important milestone. – Eric and I are a little moody today, not for any reason other than fear of the

If one child’s life is saved by these measures, they’re worth it . . . Modesto police said a missing 14-year-old girl was found safe in the trunk of a car belonging to a registered sex offender. Officers said the family of the girl had filed a missing child report around 3:00 a.m. Saturday, hours after she was last seen at her home in Modesto. Authorities found her after a

Prius to be fitted out with solar panels: Toyota’s goal is to sell at least 1 million hybrid cars a year in the early part of the next decade by offering the fuel-saving system on more vehicles. However, solar power is not seen as a viable way to power cars. Independent tests on Prius cars have shown that they could travel no more than a paltry 15 kilometres a day

I don’t type as fast as Dan, so you get bonus coverage of the seemingly cozy relationship between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MD) and the unabashedly Marxist-Leninist terrorists of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). That Pelosi was staking out “an alternative Democratic foreign policy” with respect to Syria and Iran was already known.  These continuing revelations about the Dems’ contacts with FARC are news, but

From Gateway Pundit: New information reveals that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was indirectly sending messages to the FARC. The Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) is designated as a terrorist group by the US government. Speaker Pelosi was doing this while at the same time she refused to bring a free trade agreement with Colombia up for a vote in the US House. In fact, Pelosi took extraordinary steps

Ketchup or mayo on my burger? Fuck it. Slather ’em both on there. I’m nothing if not willing to reach a happy consensus. I mean, who wants a condiment war? Except maybe John McCain?

From Pandagon’s Jesse Taylor (erstwhile conductor of the muscular Jerry Springer political freight train): I bow to you, Jeff Goldstein. You have redefined correctitude in my eyes, other random conservatives. American Thinker, you smell like jasmine and sunshine. However, you are all still idiots. I know that remembering all the way back to five years ago is like super hard and stuff, but let’s remember why we went through Plamegate

Jonah Goldberg has up an homage to a lefty writer of gobsmiting talent. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that he’s to political writing what William Shatner is to the Shakespearean stage. Mark Morford is a columnist for sfgate.com and the San Francisco Chronicle. He also teaches yoga, subscribes to magazines, admires trees, detests shrill alarmism (including his own), sleeps naked. He has not seen your blog,

Matthew Yglesias strikes again, with a new theory about American patriotism: American liberals and American conservatives are both Americans so our American patriotism is very similar. We just have different ideas about politics. Specifically, I would say that liberals do a better job of recognizing that much as we may love America there’s something arbitrary about it — we’re just so happen to be Americans whereas other people are Canadians

Excitable Andy did his triple-gainer into the Obama tank for the Times of London on Sunday.  Having noted his rampant hypocrisy last week, I skipped writing about it yesterday. Daniel Larison, however, took the time to fisk it from his perspective.  I am not in total agreement, but must note Larison’s response to Sully’s claim that Obama, by shifitng on Iraq, terrorist surveillance, etc. is undermining every reason to vote for McCain: That would be clever,