From Time: Ahead of this week’s U.N. Security Council deadline for Iran to abandon its nuclear activities and an expected report from nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei, U.S. officials have been mapping a plan to hit the defiant regime. But the attacks will be financial, not military. The U.S. and its European allies will ask the council next month for a resolution that would pave the way for political and economic

As I noted yesterday, I believe the many in the mainstream press will, so long as the can manage it, attempt to “do their best to softpeddle some of the upcoming revelations [concerning the CIA leaks].  For instance, we’ll almost certainly see equivocation, red herrings, non sequiturs, and a number of other attempts to minimize the potential damage to the CIA leakers (and, potentially, it seems, US Senators Durbin and

“Life in prison is worse for women than for men, argues prison writer-in-residence Emily Kingham. Men often cope with imprisonment by cutting off their emotions; women often become exhibitionists.” From The Social Affairs Unit: Prison bent. Any man I meet on the outside who hears about my job confesses his fear of being imprisoned, and then, in what is to me a non sequiter [sic], his fear of being raped.

Tara Ross, NRO: Opponents of the Electoral College have conjured up yet another scheme by which they hope to undermine America’s unique system of electing presidents. If they are successful, the Electoral College could essentially be eliminated at the behest of a handful of states, without the bother of a constitutional amendment. […] This latest anti-Electoral College effort, the Campaign for the National Popular Vote, was announced on February 23.

By the time I booted up the computer this morning, so much good work had already been done on this expanding CIA leak arrest story that I think I’ll just do some linking and quoting.  First, Ace, who shares my cynicism, notes how the mainstream message machine—along with many DNC loyalists and party chiefs—are likely to play this: Here comes what I like to call “The Weekend of Important Distinctions.”

—No, I didn’t forget.  But if you want the truth, I simply can’t find the little guy.  No note, no email, no messages on the answering machine, nothing. Normally, I’d be getting a little worried about now, but when I went to the fridge to grab a snack, I noticed that my bucket of Corona Light minis was missing—along with a foot long roast beef and cheddar hoagie, and a

“In the land of hungry blinkered horseflies, everything looks like a tasty and inviting dungheap.”

[update:  for those Mahablog / Greenwald readers who happen to click through (and not simply rely on the inference that I have called for the prosecution of all reporters, or called them nefarious, traitoress cockroaches), see both my second and penultimate paragraphs.] From FOXNews: A CIA officer has been relieved of his duty after being caught leaking classified information to the media. CIA officials will not reveal the officer’s name,

Allah brings to my attention this subhead from an ABC News report:  “Lack of Fund and Support May Force Hamas to Return to Violent Ways.” Which, were one to restate it more directly, would look something like this:  “Failure to Give in to Terror Group May Force Terror Group to Turn to Terror.” But I guess that kind of directness makes one appear to have an ideological agenda with the

From James Taranto, WSJ Opinion Journal: […] The idea that “politics ends at the water’s edge”—that whatever political differences exist between Americans, it is important for the nation to present its enemies and allies with a united front—largely prevailed in both parties from 1941 until 1968, when it was shattered by intraparty Democratic dissent over Vietnam. Today every prospective Democratic presidential candidate except Hillary Clinton is going out of his