Via the Tampa Tribune and AIR: Two Saudi men were arrested Friday after they boarded a school bus and rode to Wharton High School in New Tampa. Students on the bus became alarmed, as did the bus driver, who called ahead. Hillsborough County sheriff’s deputies met the bus at the school and detained the men. No one was injured and nothing out of line occurred on the bus, deputies said.

From Terry Hastings, via email: The Duke Lacrosse saga continues to play out in the media.  When guilt or innocence is finally established, will the media examine its own roll in shaping the direction the story has taken?  Thomas Sowell asks some hard questions.  With respect to the mindset that some blacks have re guilt innocence of the Lacrosse players — According to Newsweek, the young man at NCCU said

From California Conservative: Going behind the scenes of crime and terror along our southern border, KRGV-TV Newschannel 5 in Texas leads an exclusive investigation and offers this shocking report. “Terrorists in our own backyard, and the government tries to keep it a secre — XENOPHOBES! RACISTS! YOU LIE! LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE!  AND BUSH LIVES IN TEXAS, SO TEXAS LIES LIES LIES LIES LIES! 

This is big news, but it isn’t being treated with much excitement by the MSM.  Pajamas media has a small round-up of reaction, including links to

Several people have pointed me to Truthout’s “apology” for advancing the Rove indictment story, which Truthout reported on in a way that has (to date) refused to correspond with either a) their enthusiasm for said indictment, or b) any ostensible connection to reality. But—because there is always still the chance Rove will be indicted— Truthout reserves the right to re-claim the scoop, even if they miss the date by, oh,

From LGF, an interesting theory regarding yesterday’s attack on Gitmo guard: The earlier report that Guantanamo guards were attacked by inmates while trying to stop a detainee from committing suicide was inaccurate. The guards were lured into a cell by a staged suicide attempt, then ambushed by the prisoners. […] The timeframe on this incident is unclear, but it seems to have coincided with the release of 16 prisoners. Is

I have 3 2 1 brand new DVDs of Serpico (Al Pacino), 2 1 of the original Bad News Bears (Walter Matthau, Vic Morrow, Tatum O’Neal), and one mint copy of The Towering Inferno (Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, William Holden). All great flicks, all must go.  Because I need to clear space for season 2 of “The Rockford Files.” $5 each, which includes first class domestic shipping.  Drop a note

—No, I didn’t forget.  But they’ll be no dancing tonight, I’m afraid.  At about 2:30 this afternoon, Patrick Fitzgerald showed up at the house with a pair of federal marshalls and took the little guy into custody, claiming he’d “lied” to the grand jury about his relationship with Judith Miller. Which, from what I understand, was nothing more than a mezcal-fueled one-night stand—the details of which he refused to disclose.

From ABC News: The United States should close its prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and avoid using secret detention facilities in the war on terror, the U.N. panel that monitors compliance with the world’s anti-torture treaty said Friday. The Committee Against Torture also said detainees should not be returned to any country where they could face a “real risk” of being tortured. The criticism, contained in an 11-page report, followed

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