The End of American Affluence is Someone’s Wishful Thinking.  Guess Whose? 

James Joyner this morning :

In what has to be the oddest Peggy Noonan column ever, she extrapolates from a single story of a Michigan family that decided to give up some modern luxuries to engage in subsistence farming

An interesting snippet from William Kristol, Weekly Standard:

What was more interesting was the accompanying statement by the Director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair, trying to justify Obama’s decision–or at least put it “into perspective.” The perspective, the context,

Barack Obama may think of himself as president of the world.   However Israeli Prime Misister Benajim Benjamin Netanyahu is insisting on acting in Irrael’s best interest, and not Obama’s, McClatchy Newspapers:

ERUSALEM – In a direct challenge to President

The term Madam Secretary has certain ring to it,  BBC:

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is offering the chance to spend a day with her husband Bill in exchange for help paying off her campaign debt.

The offer

It time for the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security,  Janet Napolitano,  to resign.

WASHINGTON (AP) – Civil liberties officials at the Homeland Security Department did not agree with some of the language in a controversial report

In a firefight, superior firepower prevails, C.J. Chivers, New York Times;

An American platoon surprised an armed Taliban column on a forested ridgeline at night, and killed at least 13 insurgents, and perhaps many more, with rifles, machine guns,

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This is the Friday Fish Fry Edition.

• (Chuckle) Insty notes Micheal Graham:
  

  MICHAEL GRAHAM: Janet Napolitano

You just knew someone would do this eventually.

Washington Times:

Liberal actress and political activist Janeane Garofalo, in all seriousness, said activists who attended tea parties are racists with dysfunctional brains in a recent prime-time television appearance.

“Let’s be very

Matthew Lee, Associated Press, is no Jan Schakowsky and is unable to shallow all of Mrs. Clinton’s delusions:

WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday the Obama administration will take the unusual step of trying to

So where is this much promised smart diplomcay the Obama administration has been promising. Al Jazeera:

The United States has said it would welcome dialogue with Iran but has not dropped its demand for it to halt uranium enrichment

Funny, we just don’t seem have hair stylists like Olga, Carl Schreck, Crime Watch:

In what is either the weirdest Russian crime story of the year so far or a new low in yellow crime journalism, a female hair

Representative  Jan Schakowsky (Illinois – Nine.)  is the Bitsblog’s Whore of the Day, and  darn fugly one at that.   If Schakowsky is going to call us despicable,  she might well have a reason.  Eric Zimmermann, Hill:

“The

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This is the “Day After” edition.

So many things went on yesterday, I can’t begin to discuss them all. An eventful day,

From the Mailbag:

In Stuttgart, Germany, a court judge must decide on a case of honorable intentions in a situation where a man hired his neighbor to get his wife pregnant.

It seems that Demetrius Soupolos, 29, and his former

Color this blogger stunned.    I come to praise the Frogs, a/k/a the Frencn.    The French Navy is acting with an audacity once reserved for the British  Royal  Navy and the United States Navy, McClatchy .

MOMBASA, Kenya – On another