Writing in The Weekly Standard, David Tell asks, “Who Is Syed Athar Abbas? And what was he doing with a $100,000 ‘fine particulate mixer’ last summer?” (Note: If you answered, “blending daiquiris,” you’re not half as funny as you think you are. Blunt of me to say, I realize. But so true.)

You’ve really gotta hand it to Joel Mowbray: he just won’t let the State Department off the mat, dag bless him. Nor should he. Let the weasels squirm, I say. Here’s a bit from today’s drubbing in the National Review: The State Department is fighting a terrorism task force’s recommendation that suspected terrorists be denied visas — this is the same department that wants to hold onto the visa-issuance power

And to think, I used to believe that this dude was crazy… Yeah. Crazy like a money-chucking, caravan-leading, rocket launcher-toting Libyan fox, maybe…

Wow. Take away all the cursing I do, and I’m not even remotely funny… [Related: That Noam Chomsky’s one insipid little cockring, ain’t he…? I mean, talk about an assface! Am I right…? Work with me here, people. [tap tap] …Hey, is this thing even on…?]

Commenting on the story of a teenager’s death at a Georgia gun show, Oliver Willis proposes that we pass legislation outlawing all accidents. And all criminals too — just in case the anti-accident laws prove difficult to enforce. …Or maybe it was me who proposed those things, I can’t remember. Whatever. Check Oliver’s comments section for details. All’s I know is, once some dude started talking about giving pistols to

7 more dead in Tel Aviv. Scores injured. All part of the Palestinian peace project — this time courtesy of the fuzzy bunnies of Islamic Jihad. This latest bombing occured as members of Israel’s parliament discussed a plan to provide humanitarian relief for Palestinian “refugees.” Sorry. I just don’t see the shade of grey here.

The site’s been down for close to 16 hours now — and continues to be “down,” in every important sense. In fact, the only reason you’re seeing this page is because I’ve deleted most of the individual archive pages to clear some “space.” By any reasonable accounting, I should have plenty of space — but then, machines aren’t at all reasonable. Which is why Al Gore must never be elected

“Palestinians wearing Israeli army uniforms detonated a roadside bomb near an armored bus Tuesday and then sprayed automatic fire at Israeli civilians as they fled near a West Bank settlement, authorities and witnesses said. Seven people were killed and more than a dozen wounded.” The gunmen fled the scene and were being pursued by army helicopters. It was the first deadly attack on Israeli civilians since June 20 and came

The Washington Post’s Richard Cohen argues that many Black democrats would gladly abandon their scruples and vote republican just to see a Vice President with (kinda) dark skin living in the Big White House: Bush is not the sort of Republican to kiss off the black vote. The first time he ran for governor of Texas, he got just 15 percent of the black vote. Four years later, he got

“Ukraine’s police have arrested three men and a woman on suspicion of murdering five people and then eating their flesh,” Reuters reports. ‘During the last case they killed a young woman in a forest and then cut out fleshy parts of the body and ate them. This is horrible,’ a spokeswoman for police in central Ukraine said on Monday. She said the four suspected cannibals were a husband and wife,