There’s been a lot of misdirection on the intartubes over the real true inside story of Hitch and the Syrian Nazis. Ace, who’s been over there in Lebanon with him and some other guys, does a nice job of trying to play things down, on the theory that it’s really Hitch’s story to tell, since he was the one who got kicked in the head, and that it’s going to

Trip Shakespeare.

For those of you in the course, the Google Groups site is insisting I look like a computer virus, so I’m posting something below the fold for the moment.

Josh Gerstein at Politico: In his first weeks in office, President Barack Obama shut down his predecessor’s system for reviewing regulations, realigned and expanded two key White House policymaking bodies and extended economic sanctions against parties to the conflict in the African nation of Cote D’Ivoire. Despite the intense scrutiny a president gets just after the inauguration, Obama managed to take all these actions with nary a mention from the

But when my sons watch the Underworld movies, I don’t mind watching her perform acts of ultra-violence in a tight leather catsuit. Since I’m old, though, I save my fantasies for the way she says “monster.” I’d just love to have Kate Beckinsale call me “monster” in that posh accent. In a similar way, I enjoy reading David Thompson report on eurenviroweenies: Note how those who don’t share Mr Hundal’s

From The Hill: A $100,000 fundraiser for Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) held last year at a big-game ranch in Western Pennsylvania may have violated campaign-finance rules, according to campaign-finance experts. Campaign-finance records do not reflect any payments from Murtha to LBK Game Ranch or the company’s president, Bill Kuchera, for the use of the site for the Aug. 21 fundraiser. The records also contain no mention of in-kind donations from