Governmentally Mandated Samaritanism?

Should a law be established, with penalties in the form of fines and incarceration, which dictates that individuals are legally bound to dial 911 if they stumble upon a situation wherein an innocent individual’s life is in danger of being

Interesting response from NATO, to the questioning of Chuck Simmins, about why they don’t publish numbers of enemy dead.

It is ISAF policy not to release enemy lossses. This is not a measure of success for us.

Ummmmm…. Yeah….

About time…

WaPo- NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell yesterday ordered quarterback Michael Vick not to report to training camp with the Atlanta Falcons until the league has reviewed his legal troubles stemming from federal dogfighting charges.

Vick’s playing status is to

James Taranto has an op ed up as of yesterday that will interest those of you who noted our posting on the Joe Bruno/Elliot Spitzer/Andrew Cuomo thing here in NY, yesterday.

Culture of Corruption
Imagine if top aides to President

We were warned, last year, that we were going to have a monster of a hurricane season.  The proximate cause, we were told, was global warming.  Of course, that fizzled.  And the beginning of 2017 along, and the usual suspects

The Global War on Terror, on the home front:

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Bush administration took action Tuesday against an Iran-based foundation, including its U.S. branch, for allegedly providing support to Hezbollah, a terrorist group the United States

Spitzer denies any knowledge of what his closes aide was doing, which seems improbable.

But hang on. Even he didn’t know, isn’t this the same guy who wants corporate executives held criminally liable for the mistakes of their underlings, even

• If one more person asks me what my “carbon footprint” is, they’re going to be able to take measurements of my carbon footprint on their own backsides.  Idiots.
• Speaking of carbon footprints, I’m willing to bet this guy left a

By way of McQ, we see John Bambernek at Blog Critics… well, I’ll let him say it:

Today I filed an Federal Election Commission (FEC) complaint against Kos Media, LLC., better known as DailyKos.com.  I allege that they

Who is the 14% supporting Congress?

Jed Babbin says, it’s not as good for the Democrats as the 14% would seem to suggest.

Some of them must be people who are, um, a bit too busy to take pestiferous calls

Michelle Malkin says:

The newspaper that was hoaxed by Jayson Blair covers the magazine that was hoaxed by Stephen Glass, and which is now under tough scrutiny over the work of pseudonymous soldier “Scott Thomas.”

I am not

Word from James at OTB, which happened to be my first stop,  this morning:

Christiana Hendrix, wife of Cold Fury blogger Mike, was killed in a motorcycle accident Friday. My condolences.

(Sigh)

I can do little but had my

The Sister didn’t bother to watch the debate.   Apparently CNN didn’t bother either.   The debate had a serious lack of  questions.

If New York State Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo, were go on American Idol, what song would he sing?  Easy, “I Shot the Sheriff.”   The New York Times:

ALBANY, July 23 — Gov. Eliot Spitzer indefinitely suspended his communications director

• I hear you, Billy. In fact, I’ll take idea a step farther; where Gingrich gets himself into trouble, most often one is when he tries to accommodate the idiots among us.  He gets his lines all crossed up, the liberal