Via Stacy McCain, via William Teach, comes Pam Gellar noting that Charles thinks he’s got the goods on Malkin to “take the gloves off” and go to war. I think the bicycle gloves might protect his palms if he wants to start a slap-fight, but what do I know? Hey, Pam’s not exactly my cup of tea, most of the time, but Charles’s fixation’s a little weird, IMO. He’s the

OUTLAW? Mark Summers has a beef with the pirates who are seizing cargo ships and taking hostages off the coast of Somalia: They’re ruining his bad name. For years, Mr. Summers has been donning frock coats and plumed hats and rakish red scarves and tucking blunderbusses into his belt to transform himself into Cap’n Slappy. That’s Pirate Capt. Slappy to you, mate. His alter ego symbolizes a spirit of freedom,

From the WSJ: In Ricci v. DeStefano, firefighters in New Haven, Connecticut who passed a qualifying exam were denied promotions to lieutenant or captain because of the color of their skin. They were white. The High Court will decide whether New Haven violated civil rights law and the Constitution when it threw out the results of the examinations after no black test takers passed. The city doesn’t deny that its

Family issues forced him south, and now he’s kinda stuck without funds. If anybody can spare some change, please send it his way; any little bit helps: vermontaigne – at – gmail – dot – com is the email address to use through PayPal.

Betrayal! (h/t cj)

So, I’m here in sunny Florida, visiting M&D and having a last family vacation before Brendan goes off to college, and really as family vacations go, it’s not bad, because one of the things that I learned by watching my dad closely is that it’s absurd to go into these things with any expectations or specific objects in mind, and expect to return home with your sanity intact. He’s a

Some torture is more forgivable than others, I guess. h/t Gregory and CP. **** related in kind: Byron York: If you go to Memeorandum, the most talked-about story on the Web today, or at least as of 11:20 this morning, is Peter Baker’s New York Times piece, “Banned Techniques Yielded ‘High Value Information,’ Memo Says.” The story begins: President Obama’s national intelligence director told colleagues in a private memo last

From Scott Powell, vice president of ELP Capital and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, writing in IBD: […] why would the Obama administration say they want to regulate venture capital firms? Some suggest that it may be an end run in the undeclared war on wealth because venture capital can create enormous fortunes outside of taxable income. But there are several other plausible answers. The first is that

Darleen’s already done the hard work of putting together the post, but I wanted to extract something former Bush speech writer Michael Gerson said in his Hewitt interview for special emphasis, because I think it gives insight into one prong of the strategy behind Obama’s remarkable and unconscionable buckling to his far-left base on the issue of potential “torture” prosecutions: I think it’s a terrible error for a couple of