Ed Morrissey: David Freddoso tried to explain that the only change Barack Obama would bring to the Beltway would be an introduction of the Chicago Machine politics that made him successful to the Beltway. The Inspector General of AmeriCorps, one of Obama’s pet projects, has discovered this the hard way. The independent investigator got fired for peeking too closely at an Obama contributor: President Barack Obama says he has lost

A Labour minister has sparked controversy by claiming that an alternative symbol is needed for the Red Cross because of the logo’s supposed links to the Crusades. Foreign Office minister Chris Bryant said that the historic emblem risked undermining the work of the humanitarian organisation. His intervention came as MPs debated the adoption of the ‘red crystal’ – a diamond-shaped badge – to avoid the religious connotations of the cross

Hmmm. Does this mean the Weekly Standard is not really on the political right? I’ll have to remember to ask Shep, or that Napolitano lady what is suddenly all the rage again… FBI agents visited the offices of the conservative Weekly Standard magazine yesterday after a shooting at the Holocaust Memorial Museum and told employees they’d found the magazine’s address A senior Standard staffer confirmed the visit but declined to

Dan writes: Those of you who think it was okay for [David Letterman] to use a puppet A-Rod to screw a puppet Bristol Palin in Yankee Stadium, I want to hear it justified. Okay then. I justify it this way: This is what comedians do — particularly those who are charged with topical humor on a nightly basis. You can argue that the joke wasn’t funny, that it was mean

Via Fausta, David clarified that he didn’t mean to imply that Willow Palin, 14, was a slut, but that Bristol Palin, 18, was a slut. Because, you know, all unwed mothers are sluts, except for his wife. Especially if their moms look hot in a skirt. And it’s important for you to know that it was supposed to be consensual between Bristol and A-Rod, because that’s the kind of people

The hateful racist looney who shot and killed the guard, we’re being told, proves that the DHS report on “right-wing extremists” was correct. Jawans profile the guy, and find: * He hates Bush. * He hates the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. * Hates Jews and blacks. * Holocaust denier. * Hates Christians, especially Catholics. * Doesn’t think Hitler went far enough. * He is a 9-11 Troother. * Anti-Illuminati.

Feel it, people. Feel it.

It was just a joke. Really. It will be a story only after Ed Whelan apologizes for it.

Jammie Wearing Fool has the details. Could the TILT messages have something to do with an onboard explosion? This makes the search for the black boxes and other debris even more urgent. I look forward to hearing what the gate agents and airport security have to say on this matter. I’m sure I’ll be outraged if I find out that 200+ people died because someone didn’t want to be guilty

Cynn, in comments, and Alicublog, via link, seem to think that my “joke” about Letterman from last night is somehow inappropriate.* I want to stress to you scum-sucking morons that I don’t care whether Letterman and his writers thought he was addressing the presence at the Yankees game of Bristol Palin or Willow Palin. Either way, his “joke” was a sick and assaultive act directed at a young woman who