Negroponte to State Dept

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 —NY TIMES- John D. Negroponte, whom President Bush installed less than two years ago as the first director of national intelligence, will soon leave his post to become the State Department’s second-ranking official, administration officials said Wednesday.

(H/T photo:  Sweetness & Light )

Just as surely as dead meat attracts flies,majority status in Congress attracts moonbats.   Josh Gerstien, the Sun(NY) reports, how Rahm Emanuel was ambushed:

A noisy band of anti-war protesters prompted House Democratic

Michelle Malkin:

My blogging has been lighter than usual the past few weeks due to family time, Fox News duties, holiday chaos, holiday illness–and, yes, planning for a trip to Iraq. As you know, ex-CNN newsman Eason Jordan extended an

The New York Post, better late than never, discovers an allegator in Mrs. Pelosi’s Swamp, to wit her ethically challenged Chairman of the Judiciary Committee John Conyers.  

But Conyers’ credibility as the Democrats’ moral watchdog was shredded by the

Today’s Snark of the Day comes from Don Surber:

When I read the post-Christmas story in the Washington Post, “U.S. Wants Polar Bears Listed as Threatened,” my first thought was: What about the baby seals?

Polar bears

Author unknown:

There’s a sucker born every minute

New York State governor Eliot “Phineas Taylor” Spitzer must believe there are 19,254,630 of them.

P.T. gave his first address to the New York State legislature, giving with one hand while taking

Well, now… this oughta close the deal…..

RALEIGH, N.C. —AP- Duke University has invited two former lacrosse players accused of sexual assault to return to school as students in good standing, a defense lawyer said Wednesday.

Collin Finnerty and Reade

Amazing, is the kindest thing I can say.

Word from Iraq, today, that people weren’t respectful at Saddam’s necktie party, has the denizens of the left all up in arms. Places like The Raw Story, The Huffington Post

From The New York Observer, this morning, comes word that Bill Keller, of the NY York Times is considering pulling a Hugo Chavez, and silence a voice he views as a problem:

 

The New York Times will soon decide

Hume, last night:

One of the Iranian president’s top advisers claims Adolf Hitler was a Jew who co-founded the state of Israel. The Middle East Media Research Institute reports Mohammad Ali Ramin told an Iranian Web site that Hitler —

Let’s talk about anger.

First, perhaps it’s useful to get a working definition, from the above link at Dictionary.com:

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) – Cite This Source

an·ger /?æ?g?r/ Pronunciation Key – Show Spelled Pronunciation[ang

Nifong’s actions are inexplicable only if you assume that his purpose was to get at the truth about what actually happened at the party where the stripper claimed to have been raped.

That assumption has never been made in this

 A tale of two homocides, which left two black men dead.    Ten of thousand protested the death of Sean Bell.   Wheras his fellow citizens seemed rather unmoved by the death of  Kevin West.

The difference?   Bell died at the hands

First Jamil Hussein and now Eason Jordan.   What gives?

Yesterday Bit wrote:

If we’re to take the reports from AP at face value, it would appear that Jamil Hussein, That mysterious, erstwhile “informed source” over in Iraq …. the

Some of you may recall that we had a discussion in these spaces as regards to the violence in France, particularly that which was concentrated in the Muslim areas surrounding Paris.  Apparently, not much has changed, except for the idea