Whither the Israeli Statesman?

The Big Trunk, over at Power Line asks a question I have gotten rather a lot over the last few years:

As a distant lover of Israel, I have been genuinely puzzled by its failure to produce a statesman equal

Patrick Ruffini is back online with his own website. Check it out. It’s worth it.

Remember that Scen Cleaner on the British Telecom site I found a month or so back?Here ’tis again
Flash based.

Yeah, Billy I heard about that one.

Now, perhaps, you better understand why MSNBC is not on my ‘need to watch’ list. Matthews is a major reason.

At Power Line, Decon wonders how far the Democrats will sink into the Litmus test.

Judge Luttig’s father was murdered, and liberals may be poised to argue that this fact would render him impermissibly biased in death penalty cases

I just spent the last half hour trying to clean up a mess on this site.
(sigh)
Not sure where the issue is, but it looks OK at the moment.

Captain’s Quarters weighs in on the Schiavo case… a subject I’ve not Blogged about much.

Bill at INDC Journal points out a quote from Walid Jumblatt that brightens my day… and makes that of the naysayers all the darker.

After spending the day, working and taking care of some family health issues, my wife and I decided that it was time to take the Kids to a movie as a treat.  You know how it is; we’ve been concentrating

Ann Coulter… On target as usual.

Gannon didn’t write about gays. No “hypocrisy” is being exposed. Liberals’ hateful, frothing-at-the-mouth campaign against Gannon consists solely of their claim that he is gay.

I popped up at DeLong’s place with a question, in the comments to the story I linked in this space… asking if anyone had done a study between the numbers DeLong posted and women in blogging. I stated I suspected

Jane at Asymmetrical Information regarding SUV safety;

“Anti-SUV people, of whom there are a lot in my neck of the woulds, like to point out that many SUV’s are less safe than sedans. The reason that SUV’s are less safe

Still have a Beagle Mix that needs a home. Freindly little guy.
Can anyone help him?

Speaking of Libertarians and Republicans, Randy Barnett over at The Volokh Conspiracy makes the argument that …

…the creation of the Libertarian Party has been very detrimental to the political influence of libertarians. Some voters (not many lately) and, more

Well, let’s see now.

On the one hand we have Lawrence Summers, president of Harvard University, who said, in part:

“In the special case of science and engineering, there are issues of intrinsic aptitude, and particularly of the variability of