Columnist Robert Novak has Brain Tumor

The Chicago Tribune:

BOSTON – Syndicated columnist and former “Crossfire” host Robert Novak has been diagnosed with a brain tumor and is suspending his journalistic work.

The story doesn’t say if there’s a malignancy, there.

I hate to say this

I’m going to break my “No AP feed” rule to make a point, here.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) –A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by conservative radio talk show host Michael Savage against an Islamic civil rights group

Timing is everything. Bruce posts a Project Hero post, and I’m out of town.

Oh, well.

This week, Bruce digs into the story of an attack in Afghanistan a few weeks ago, where 9 soldiers got killed. The story here,

One of the biggist liabilities that Barack Obama has, is the people who are already going to vote for him.  A case in point shows up in the Rocky Mountain News this morning, in an article by Daniel J. Chacon:

Thanks to the guys for keeping things going while myself and my family were gone camping. Only a one-nighter, but nice to know the blog continues while I’m gone.

I only have a few pics  but I do have some

• I managed to catch a first place this week at OTB’s Caption Contest.
• for the last week or so, we’ve brought up John Edwards and his scandal. Kaus has been watching this for a while too, all credit to

Captain Ed:

NBC’s Jim Miklaszewski and Courtney Kube get the skinny on the abrupt cancellation of Barack Obama’s visit to Landstuhl and Ramstein yesterday.  The campaign tried to excuse it by claiming that it wouldn’t be appropriate to visit while

• 90 Billion BBLsof oil under the ice.
• So, Obama went to the wall today. We’re suppsoed to be impressed by the turnout. Perhaps before you get too impressed with how well Germans react to his posturing, perhaps you’ll be

 Thomas Barnett notes:

Spray one apartment and the bugs move over to the next. Wherever there’s the least resistance or the most opportunity, you find them clustered.

The Anbar awakening ruins al Qaeda’s long-term chances in Iraq, and so the

I’ll use James’ post over at OTBto spring off of, because I’ve been thinkng about this for a couple of days:

John Edwards has been spotted back together with his alleged mistress, Rielle Hunter

James quotes the story, and

What you see here is something called “Happy Flu, which is an experiment run by Marc Danziger. If you’ve got a blog and you saw this here first, click “Spread It” which will give you a chance to get the

• A .491 Blood Alcohol level? Why is this guy still breathing? And he was Driving?
• Profits at The New York Times are off 82%If I’m Rupert Murdoch I’m watching this one.
• Dolly visits Texas. No deaths, far as

Here is where the Democrats are today, as noted at OTB’s comments section last night. Two different people, both leftists, both speaking about Iraq and the liberation of it’s people: First one:

Certainly when you look at the cost/benefit equation,

Yes, as you can doubtless see, we’re changing the basic layout.

I’ve found a template I can work with, and will be doing that for a few days. Mostly I’m trying to bring the color and font setup over from