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From the Boston Globe: In the first week after the Supreme Judicial Court decision took effect on May 17, 2,500 gay and lesbian couples applied for licenses; 1,700 have done so in the six months since then, according to unofficial tallies by the Globe and state officials. In all, the state’s Registry of Vital Records […]

Jonah Goldberg tries to defend the President on Iraq: When Paul Wolfowitz told Vanity Fair in May 2003 that the administration settled on the WMD issue for bureaucratic reasons, opponents of the war cynically distorted the interview to make it sound like the administration wasn’t convinced about the WMD threat. What Wolfowitz was actually saying, […]

The Department of Education engages in some petty fear-mongering: The Education Department has advised school leaders nationwide to watch for people spying on their buildings or buses to help detect any possibility of terrorism like the deadly school siege in Russia. The warning follows an analysis by the FBI (news – web sites) and the […]

As the debate regarding the desirability of locking up those dangerous Japs who also happened to be Americans during WWII continues, I sent the following email to Deacon of Powerline, Eugene Volokh of the Volokh Conspiracy, Clayton Cramer and Eric Muller: Dear sirs, I have followed the debate between Ms Malkin and her various critics […]

Michelle Malkin advocates Newspeak: As for the term “concentration camps,” it is very misleading. It is true that many politicians and public officials, including President Roosevelt himself, used this term to describe the relocation centers. But it wasn’t until the liberation of the Nazi death camps beginning in 1945 that the phrase took on the […]

From WND The New York Times, which yesterday buried the story about a former national security adviser caught shoving highly classified documents in his pants, today suggested in a news story the scandal of the missing documents might hurt his chances of becoming secretary of state. Sandy Berger, national security adviser during the Clinton administration, […]

Adam Gopnik writes in Paris to the Moon The performance of Les Trois Petits Cochons, for instance, uses, with slight variations, many of the devices, not to mention the music of the Disney version of the story from the thirties. There are French touches, though. The catastrophe, or climax, comes when the wolf pretends to […]

Nate posts on TWA 800: 0 The number of ships or subs the Navy claimed were within 185 miles of the disaster. 4 The number of Navy ships or subs the FBI, in its final report, admitted were in “the immediate vicinity” of the disaster. 7 The number of days it allegedly took the Navy […]

Last month, representatives of WTP went to the National Archives to pull the correspondence of the Office of Chief Counsel for the Treasury Department and for 1913 through 1917. The index of records showed the records were available for 1903 through 1912 and for 1918 and after. However, the index contained the statement “No Longer […]

Matt Drudge has a link to a British story about a three-year old child who died of heart failure due to her obesity. Meanwhile, today’s Star and Sickle covers the ongoing debate in St. Paul to ban smoking from restaurants, bars and night clubs – all in the name of health. It seems to me […]