The Washington Post’s Ellen Nakashima is sure to give the nutroots the vapors with this one: When FBI investigators probing New York prostitution rings, Boston organized crime or potential terrorist plots anywhere want access to a suspect’s telephone contacts, technicians at a telecommunications carrier served with a government order can, with the click of a mouse, instantly transfer key data along a computer circuit to an FBI technology office in

I’ve been snapping up pets over at Facebook today.  I think some of them have potential:

testifies today, so naturally it’s time for pre-emptive declarations of failure. Inconveniently, events aren’t co-operating.

Reported, strangely enough, by the New York Times from an even stranger dateline — Paris, France: After the Paris police smashed a cell suspected of sending insurgents to Iraq early in 2005, French authorities predicted a new and dangerous threat: young Muslims lured to the Iraqi battlefields who would return, radicalized, to use their newfound battlefield skills in terrorist acts inside France. *** Now, as members of the cell are

Allahpundit did his usual bang-up job exposing director Spike Lee’s attacks on the Clintons and their black supporters as “merely an unusually grotesque example of a standard form of leftist identity-politics demagoguery.”  However, I would take issue with the word “merely.” As Protein Wisdom’s esteemed host Jeff Goldstein has argued: [T]he social construction argument for race — based as it is on dubious claims to history, memory, and heritage that collapse

Woman claims Clinton told true story. Death Cab for Dhimmi Breaking: Douchebag Claims Prick Called Wife Cunt 15 Years Ago OMFG! On Tim Russert, Hitchens said to Sullivan: “Oh, well don’t be such a lesbian. Get on with it”

Fox News cancels John Gibson. Go on. Justify it.

h/t Enoch_Root

The Absolut reconquista ad flap has become serious. I know, because Stephen Green, aka Vodkapundit, has switched to Ketel One. It’s possible that this rift was inevitable, looking back on V&S Absolut Spirit’s “Absolut World” ad campaign launch. ABSOLUT® BRINGS ‘IN AN ABSOLUT WORLD’TO LIFE WITH KANYE WEST, EDDIE IZZARD AND PEREZ HILTON… On February the 27th, ABSOLUT® VODKA, the world’s most iconic spirits brand, will premiere Visionaries, a series

Previously on Protein Wisdom: Gleen(s) today make jackasses of themselves even more than usual, picking a fight with an AP puff piece on Mike Mukasey. He begins by asserting that Mukasey is one of the most divisively controversial figures in American politics today, which is something that Gleen(s) would like to see to, but which brings hermeticism to the brink of absurdity by any reasonably objective measurement. Anyone more than