Hmm. I see Carrot Top’s still holding a slight edge over Tony Woodlief in the “Sexiest Male Blogger Protest” Poll. The good news, though, is that Tony’s absolutely crushing both Dick Gephardt and Usama Bin Laden (Bin Laden, yes; Bin Sexy, fuggetaboudit). Me, I’m getting my ass handed to me on Muffy Tepperman’s site by Don Rumsfeld — though Richard Bennett remains the dark horse. Counting on a last minute

Writing in The National Review, James Robbins again takes issue with the the state department and the CIA, both of whom, according to a recent The New York Times report, continue to “view Arafat as the best chance for peace and stability over the long term”: […] the American fixation on Arafat is in fact the main obstacle to the emergence of a true nonviolent political opposition movement in the

Jesse Walker, writing in Reason, takes on the Patriot Act and the U.S. intelligence community: So what have our intelligence agencies done since September11? On one hand, they asked for, and received, a host of new powers in an anti-terror bill, including the right to engage in secret searches, warrantless Internet surveillance, warrantless access to phone records, and a requirement that retailers report ‘suspicious’ customer transactions to the Treasury. Civil

Writing for the editors, The Weekly Standard’s Fred Barnes argues for a way to deter air terrorism: “Arm the Pilots and Profile the Passengers”: The first [step] is arming pilots. This is such a simple solution to airline hijacking — such a powerful deterrent — that pilots and passengers overwhelmingly agree it should be done as soon as possible. In fact, practically everyone is on board, except the Transportation Security

A few weeks ago, NRO’s Jay Nordlinger undressed Mary McGrory in his “Impromptus” column, and I got a little titilated. Today, Nordlinger undresses Norman Mailer. Thankfully, nothing moved this time, if you know what I mean. Still, good stuff: Is Norman Mailer still worth bothering about? Let

…And speaking of baseball… The Fat Guy wants to take a tempered Maple game bat to the knee caps of MLB labor agitators: Here’s a little something that all of you Internet-wired baseball fans can do to send a message about labor relations. Go and vote for all Montreal and Minnesota players on the All-Star ballot. You can vote 25 times per email address (they say…haven’t done it yet). Nobody

As I’ve made clear here on several occasions, I’m a huge fan of the original Bad News Bears. I even have a Kelly Leak replica Bears jersey, which my wife gave me as a present this past Xmas. So anyway, I mentioned this to Marc Weisblott via email last evening (in the course of commenting on his nifty new site design), and he emailed back this link — a “then

As I’ve made clear here on several occasions, I’m a huge fan of the original Bad News Bears. I even have a Kelly Leak replica Bears jersey, which my wife gave me as a present this past Xmas. So anyway, I mentioned this to Marc Weisblott via email last evening (in the course of commenting on his nifty new site design), and he emailed back this link — a “then

*If you are able, save for them a place inside of you and save one backward glance when you are leaving for the places they can no longer go. Be not ashamed to say you love them, though you may or may not have always. Take what they have left and what they have taught you with their dying and keep it with your own. And in that time when

From University of Chicago law professor Richard Epstein’s “Taking the Con out of Con. Law,” in the latest National Review (subscriber’s only, so I’ll quote at length): What should the justices do with [the McCain-Feingold] campaign-finance law? For starters, it would seem odd to engage in a strict construction of the phrase ‘freedom of speech’ that would prohibit individuals from acting collectively for political action. No sensible interpretation of the