Five British hostages who were kidnapped in Iraq almost a year ago are being held inside Iran by Revolutionary Guards, according to two separate sources in the Middle East and London. The hostages were handed over to the Revolutionary Guards by their Iraqi kidnappers last November, the sources believe. One of the sources said they were being held in the western Iranian city of Hamadan. If confirmed, the involvement of

force doomed Iraqi children to bust a move before . . . (h/t Thor)

I do not know whether Michael Hirsh should be blamed for that Newsweek sub-headline, as he cites evidence that the North is seceding from the North: As John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge observed in their 2004 book, “The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America,” the nation’s population center has been “moving south and west at a rate of three feet an hour, five miles a year.” That is the ironic

Barack Obama’s slipping poll numbers are likely to further fuel Democratic disquiet that the protracted fight between Obama and Hillary Clinton is creating a racial divide in the party: “If this party is perceived by people as having gone into a back room somewhere and brokered a nominee, that would not be good for our party,” House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn (S.C.), the highest ranking African American in Congress, warned

Excitable Andy is upset with John McCain for saying that “it’s very clear who Hamas wants to be the next president of the United States,” though a top Hamas official has publicly endorsed Obama: My response is simply that honorable campaigns do not allow foreign agents, especially terrorist organizations, to insert themselves into American presidential politics. No respectable foreign governments do such a thing; and the gambits of al Qaeda,

His ears just got bigger again. Pinorecchio and The Reverend on Pleasure Island. 

Good guy, excellent blogger.  Go wish him a happy birthday at Vodkapundit.com.

Ben Smith has a post up at the Politico, reprinting an e-mailed after-action report on the Pennsylvania primary by Obama backer Dan Wofford (son of former US Senator Harris Wofford (D-PA)), which leads with his comments on the impact of Obama’s “clingy” kerfuffle and poor debate performance. But regular pw readers know I am a sucker for the undercovered topic of political organization, which is what most of Wofford’s commentary addressed.  For

I saw one of these on the expressway today.  Pretty cool looking.  Profile’s like a vintage Mercedes.  Don’t know anything else about it, though.

All Flavored Condoms on the “I’m too drunk to write a poem” poem