The Smaller of Two Evils

Byron York, at The Corner:

The new issue of The Atlantic has a piece by Mark Bowden, “The Ploy,” about the American interrogation team in Iraq that found Abu Masab al-Zarqawi. It is teased as “the inside story of how

Richard S. Lindzen writing in Newsweek, asks, “Why So Gloomy?” 

The current alarm rests on the false assumption not only that we live in a perfect world, temperaturewise, but also that our warming forecasts for the year

B.C.’ cartoonist Johnny Hart dies at storyboard

ENDICOTT, N.Y. -(AP)- cartoonist Johnny Hart, whose award-winning “B.C.” comic strip appeared in more than 1,300 newspapers worldwide, died at his home on Saturday. He was 76.

“He had a stroke,”

Witha hat tip to KJL, let’s check out a chart recently offered as ‘proof” of “global warming” by USA TODAY, otherwise known as “Useless Toady”.

Now…  look at the way this is laid out, and you’ll notice that the appearances

Since when is “Let It Snow” an Easter song?

Don Surber.

Edit:  changed photo.

It’s an unlikely story, and it’s even unlikely are that the story would continue to be retold a little over 2000 years later.  But so it is retold, and continues to become stronger in the retelling.

There’s an awful lot

Oil prices fell. The stock market rose. Video images of smiling British soldiers with Iranian President Ahmadinejad were everywhere. So were pictures of the 15 freed hostages embracing family members back home. The relief over the return of the Brits

From this morning’s Telegraph:

Hardliners in the Iranian regime have warned that the seizure of British naval personnel demonstrates that they can make trouble for the West whenever they want to and do so with impunity.

The bullish reaction from

William Douglas, McClatchy Washinton Bureau, asks the really dumb question of the day:

WASHINGTON – It’s become President Bush’s mantra, his main explanation for why he won’t withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq anytime soon.

In speech after speech, in

From – the – Washington Post,  Karla Adam:

LONDON, April 7 — An Iranian official said Saturday that allegations of mistreatment from a British naval team seized last month in the Persian Gulf were unfounded and stage-managed.

“The mistreatment

I am not sold on this idea, but does make an interesting meme.   Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit:

Interestingly, I think that the more Pelosi acts like a wannabe President, the worse it is for Hillary. And I think that Pelosi

Citation to accompany the award of the Congressional Medal of Honor, to Lance Peter Sijan, Captain, United States Air Force (posthumous):

While on a flight over North Vietnam, Captain Sijan ejected from his disabled aircraft and successfully evaded capture for

Ahmadinejad must be particularly pleased to see “deep thinking” journalists making the case that American actions in Iraq were the true cause of the kidnappings.

Fred Thompson, Red State.?

Noted in passing at the Washington Post:

On any given day, one isn’t likely to find common cause with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He’s a dangerous, lying, Holocaust– denying, Jew-hating cutthroat thug — not to put too fine

I’m looking for a WordPress plugin that will mail the whole body of a post, to an email address.