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Surely this time, this time, air power will do the trick: Democrat leaders in Congress vow they’ll move to block President Bush from invading Iran, but Pentagon officials say that won’t be necessary, because they have no active plans for a ground attack. In fact, officials tell WND they have war-gamed a full-blown invasion and […]

RK sends us a link informing us that John Edwards’ campaign is officially doomed: New BlogmasterAmanda Marcotte in Diaries Feed of Amanda Marcotte’s Diary1/30/2007 at 5:50 EST This is both my first post to the Edwards blog and my announcement that I’m joining the presidential campaign for John Edwards for 2008. I’ll be taking over […]

Isn’t it supposed to be the worstest, most deadliest disease ever in the history of Mankind? Perhaps TB is simply too dangerous to be fully unleashed on the planet. South Africa may forcibly isolate patients being treated for a highly drug-resistant form of tuberculosis to prevent new infections from spreading on the AIDS-hit continent, health […]

The Divine Camille in Salon. Five pages and a quote-worthy section on every page: Well, as long as the Democrats are perceived as the anti-religion party, we’re going to lose the culture wars…. I’m speaking here as an atheist who studies religion and respects it enormously. In the history of mankind, the benefits that religion […]

Even an unemployed homeless man living in the woods can teach better than the professional educators at your children’s public school: The man and girl told police they had lived in the park for four years. The pair appeared clean, well-fed and healthy, Barkley said, and the girl was well-spoken beyond her years. The man, […]

Jess is feeling a bit torn: I’ve been reading a lot of the online columnist Vox Day. Although I think he confuses correlation with causation much of the time, I really can’t argue with a lot of his observations. One of his favorite topics is feminism. The gut reaction I have is totally opposite his […]

New Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito split with the court’s conservatives Wednesday night, refusing to let Missouri execute a death-row inmate contesting lethal injection. Alito, handling his first case, sided with inmate Michael Taylor, who had won a stay from an appeals court earlier in the evening. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia […]

The Fraters Libertas can’t resist, even when the bear in question is busily soiling itself again: …never underestimate the power of an MSM internal watchdog to pardon the unpardonable. And in Platt’s column I recognized the familiar style of the Star Tribune’s so called “Reader Representative” Kate Parry. That style, outlined and excerpted for your […]

Roberto Gotta criticizes Mondiale marketing: For a number of years, Del Piero has been the public face of a brand of mineral water Uliveto, also the official supplier to the azzurri. The script writers were probably overfatigued when they wrote the storyline. In a variety of situations and locations, Del Piero has been extolling the […]

Eman asked for a definition of a media whore a few days ago. Here, as promised, is one. This is only a partial definition, however, and it is related to the variant I describe as the courtesan, as opposed to its charlatan counterpart. MEDIA WHORES – CHAPTER TWOThe CourtesansCogliendo le rose. Aristotle insists that in […]