Is Mrs. Clinton Worried About “1984”?

She ought to be.  The ad perfectly captures Mrs. Clinton’s cynical use of the word “conversation.”  View the video.   What do you think??

Liberals are now claiming a strange new theory of executive power — that it’s the bureaucrats, the “experts,” the permanent government in DC, that have almost all of the actual power in the executive branch, and the President is acting

The Daily Mail(UK) reports on extremists’ demands to kill Knut:

At three months old, however, the playful 19lb bundle of fur is at the centre of an impassioned debate over whether he should live or die.

Animal rights activists

Clarence Page is a liberal, but among my more favorite ones.   Page is calm, articulate, well reasoned, polite and respects data.  In short Page is everything, that Al Franken and Keith Olberman,are not.

Elite academic insitutions, life Havard, achieve

If A.J. Strata is right, and I sure hope he is, President George W. Bush is about to bitch slap Senators Leahy and Schumer.  I am no fan of Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, but I am adamantly oppposed to

I blogged about New Orlean’s Mayor, Ray Nagin’s suspicions yesterday.   Apparently I wasn ‘t the only blogger unable to resist the low hanging fruit.  Slate‘s Big Sister, Caren Crockett, has “a flood of ideas..

Can Mrs. Valerie Plame Wilson, a.k.a. Blondie give two different congressional committees two versions of the same story, and remain unindited for perjury?

The story Blondie told the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform is at odds with her

Since when does idle speculation equate to news?  I guess when the speculator is a black politician.   Personally, I suspect that Ray Nagin is an idiot and that the Washington Post will not treat my speculation as hard news.   Hamil

The tribes in Anbar are stubborn and they have many ruthless warriors. That’s a proven fact and it looks like Al-Qaeda had just made their gravest mistake—their once best friends are just about to become their worst enemy.

Omar, Iraq

I blogged about yesterday’s weather, which was fit for neither man nor beast   Yet the foul weather did not stop either car shoppng or John  Sullivan,and company, from marching  in Rochester’s Saint Patrick’s Day parade.

Marie Colvin, Sunday Times(UK) reports this juicy little tidbit:

The survey, published today, also reveals that contrary to the views of many western analysts, most Iraqis do not believe they are embroiled in a civil war.

That means that

If this is Saint Patrick’s Day, why isn’t the snow green?   When it comes to weather in Rochester, the phrase “Luck of the Irish” just does not seem to apply.   By the way, it was sixty degrees on Wednesday.   Mother

There is a paper in New York willing to dig into the Valerie Plame scandal, and it is not the New York Times.   The Rome Sentinel does what the main stream media either can not or will not do,

Remember, there was much talk within the Kerry camp that Joe Wilson might be the new administration’s Secretary Of State. The vainglorious Mr. Wilson surely had his eyes on that prize.

And any concern about the secrecy of his

Henry Waxman was digging for dirt.  All he got was hot air.  The Intelligence Identities Protection Act(IIPA), has several very specific requirements as to who is covered by the act.

Waxman was like a pitbull in asserting that the CIA