Via slayerdaddy, the transcript to CNN’s “Reliable Sources” (May 14), from which we learn from Mistress Arianna herself that many mainstream Democratic Party members have abandoned both the Party and the progressive movement (represented by the leftosphere)—most especially, Hillary Clinton, who Arianna insists cannot win the Democratic nomination for President: KURTZ: All right. Arianna, day after day you and your fellow liberal bloggers are openly dissing Hillary Clinton. Just this

What I wouldn’t give to see a gaggle of ironizing angst-monkeys wear a shirt like this into a pub that caters to NY firefighters or policemen. Not because I’m into bloodlust or neohipster pulping, mind you—rather, because I get a kick out of watching drunken twenty-somethings with pee-stained pants trying to sprint through tight alley ways. All the shrieking and crashing into garbage cans cracks me up.

Shake the Magic 8-Ball and…all signs point to yes! The other day I hoped aloud that the US would, once again, act as a beacon for freedom, and send a message to the rest of the world:  we shall not, as a nation, cave to the demands of the Islamists. And we have not—even if our “tolerant” press and academic elite argue that it is our multicultural duty to do

…To all you moms out there!  Posting will be light today, naturally. In its place?  A fancy lunch, and then maybe a few drinks.  Seems that because I take care of my son and work from home, I’m eligible for certain perks of motherhood—and without all that inconvenient monthly bleeding!  So.  How you like me now, T?

A number of regulars have noted that, as a way to help me finish this fundraiser with a flourish, they’ll match any donations from the left-leaning commenters who post here daily. So far, the sum total they have to meet?  $0.00. I know, I know.  Hardly shocking, is it?  But in the unlikely event anything changes, I’ll let you know. To the rest of you who have contributed—either with donations

1) Charles Johnson emails:  “Netherlands ‘Looking Into’ Hirsi Ali’s Past”: Netherlands Integration Minister Rita Verdonk is “looking into” the citizenship status of Ayaan Hirsi Ali. As Bruce Bawer wrote in an email, first they drove her out of her house, now they’re trying to drive her out of the country. On Friday Verdonk said Hirsi Ali had nothing to worry about: Liberals don’t care Hirsi Ali lied to get asylum

Not that I have any desire to ring the Iran nuclear alarmist bell any moreso than I’ve done already the last two days, but, well…“Pakistan’s former chief of staff: Iran probably has the bomb”.  Do read the whole thing. Factor in this information, which comes from Mirza Aslam Beg (who claims to have met with the Iranians concerning nuclear weapons 15 years ago) with the rest of what Iran has

Won’t be able to post much today:  my wife’s mother is in from out of town, so we’ll be doing a bit of entertaining—which amounts, roughly, to me tagging along wherever I’m told to go.  Usually I’m made to keep two paces behind the bread winner, but that’s only because my wife’s mom is fairly orthodox. At any rate, before I head out shopping and to Wash Park, I’d like