Apparently, the Nature of Strategic Military Planning Eludes the Left

From the London Times, this morning:

THE Pentagon has drawn up plans for massive airstrikes against 1,200 targets in Iran, designed to annihilate the Iranians’ military capability in three days, according to a national security expert.

Alexis Debat, director

Captain Ed, this morning:

Earlier today, I noted Fred Thompson’s sponsorship of the Fox broadcast of the next Republican debate, and called it a “shrewd move”, which resulted in some, ahem, mixed reviews from CQ readers. It occurred to me

WASHINGTON —Fox News-  Washington, D.C.’s new fire chief recently asked police to launch an investigation after a tip that some fire department employees turned at least one fire station into a prostitution house.

Fire Chief Dennis Rubin wants to know

From Doug Ross.

Hat tip:  Don Surber.

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3- 22-98 Rochester NY

With the events out in California today, it’s time to address the issue of Guns and the liberals intent to remove them from the hands of the people.

Travel back in time with me, to a

An interesting note this morning from Texas, that was little noticed elsewhere, and yet bears directly on us all, in terms of our own internal cultural war, that the social left has declared on us:

DALLAS —(Houston Chronicle) A federal

Since today is supposedly a day in celebration of unions, and since my position on unions is fairly well known, perhaps I should make an effort to catalog some of our comments about them in the past.

Unions are Killing

DURHAM, N.C. — (AP)  A judge has sentenced disgraced prosecutor Mike Nifong to one day in jail for lying to a judge while pursuing the Duke lacrosse rape case.

Nifong was held in criminal contempt of court Friday for lying

Either I got it wrong, last night, or it’s been moved. In any event, the Larry Craig resignation news conference is listed this morning at 12:30 eastern. There’s vid available, too.

The story that the “paper of record” has ignored has a rather large right up on the WSJ’s Page One, today:

The U.S. Justice Department is investigating possible campaign-finance violations by top Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu, according to people

A busy day of work, today, and me without decent net access, means you get my notes from today all at once in The Ramble:

• Tony Snow has basically given his two weeks notice.  Says cancer isn’t the reason

Bit beat to Martin Lewis. However I will not be denied.

For those who just don’t know when to stop digging,  The winner of the first Bitsblog Golden Shovel Award:

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) – Mike Nifong, the

Robert McFadden, New York Times, reports on Saddam Hussein’s illegal war material found at the United Nations.

No unconventional weapons were found in Iraq after the United States-led invasion in 2003. But a potentially deadly chemical agent produced by

Sliming’s New Meaning, Apparently, Is When You’re Quoted Accurately

I understand lefty bloggers are quite bothered by this story in the Washington Post, with the eye-catching headline, “Lawmakers Describe ‘Being Slimed in the Green Zone’

Jim Geraghty, National Review

Michelle Malkin has Larry Craig’s police transcriipt and tape.

There seems to be no clear ccnsensus on the tape.  From the legal perspective, the tape seems helpful.  Craig does not admit to anything near illegal and is the more