From the Herald Tribune, “Many potential Padilla jurors unsure of 9/11 attacks blame”: A significant number of potential jurors in the Jose Padilla terrorism support case say they aren’t sure who is responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, many because they don’t trust the news media or U.S. government pronouncements. “There are too many ifs, too many things going on,” one male juror said. “I don’t know the

No word on what stay-at-home father’s work is worth (I blame for this oversight the institutionalized sexism that has no doubt “inscribed” Reuters’ Ellen Wulfhorst), but if you believe what the establishment feminists tell you, the work I’m doing as a man is probably worth, say, $164K. And while I find that calculus flattering, the way the final number is determined (based on potential earnings for analogous jobs not subject

Islam vs. Islamists: Voices from the Muslim Center, the documentary PBS finds, alternately, too long, too alarmist, too one-sided, and too devoid of scenes depicting the heroism of Latinos and American Indians to air, is reviewed at Ace’s place by commenter spongeworthy, a friend of the filmmakers who attended a New York premiere. The review answers the PBS justifications for not airing the documentary (the final cut was 52 minutes),

Dan Riehl has the story of some Virginia legislators who are putting pressure on four Virginia radio stations to drop libertarian talk-show host Neal Boortz’s show over comments he made in the wake of the VT shootings (Boortz attributed the fact that students didn’t fight back to the “wussification of America,” which he blamed on the left-wing nannystate). The radio stations reported that they received very little in the way

“Rice meets with Syrian counterpart”: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Syria’s foreign minister Thursday in the first high-level talks between the two countries in years, hours after the chief military spokesman in Iraq said Syria had moved to reduce “the flow of foreign fighters” across its border. The Bush administration has shunned Syria, which it considers a state supporter of terrorism, and last month President Bush assailed House Speaker

Ms. Baez calls the snub “strange irony”—which leads me to conclude that she defines “strange irony” differently than most of us.  Say, as “completely predictable.” From the Washington Post: Folk singer and anti-war activist Joan Baez says she doesn’t know why she was not allowed to perform for recovering soldiers recently at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as she planned. In a letter to The Washington Post published Wednesday, she

Funny, I seem to recall a lot of Democrats supporting his appointment.  Which I guess was just so that they could cut off his funding, deny the truth of his accounts about who we’re fighting in Iraq, and in essence, paint the military as part of the great neocon conspiracy to keep us fighting in Iraq on behalf of Halliburton and the monied Jews. Petraeus?  An administration automaton—a political mouthpiece

Remember.  She’s third in line for the Presidency—and she already considers herself part of a shadow State Department, though she’s far too desirous of publicity to actually, you know, remain in the shadows. Okay, then, Madame Speaker. You want some publicity?  Revel in this: The second most popular politician in Syria these days may be an American: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The California Democrat warmed Syrian hearts with her trip

From the New Republic’sLawrence Kaplan, “The Knowledge Gap”: Maybe it was a slip of the tongue. But, when Nancy Pelosi confessed last year that she felt “sad” about President Bush’s claims that Al Qaeda operates in Iraq, she seemed to be disputing what every American soldier in Iraq, every Al Qaeda operative, and anyone who reads a newspaper already knew to be true. (When I questioned him about Pelosi’s assertion,