Saddam’s Capture: One Year Later

James Joyner at Outside The Beltway remarks about Saddam’s capture one year ago today, and allows;

Presumably, the effort to build a secure Iraq would be even further behind were Saddam still free. But that the level of violence would

For a long time I’ve used the phrase on every site I’ve written for, the line: “Remember; those who tolerate everything, stand for nothing.
What do YOU stand for?”.

McQ over at QandO points at the implosion of the ever

Michelle Malkin posts today:

“The family of Specialist David Mahlenbrock, a 20-year-old combat engineer who was killed in Iraq last Friday when a roadside bomb detonated, has a special request.

They are asking radio music stations to play Toby Keith’s

“Now, it’s our party; we bought it, we own it”

So says the rather aptly surnamed Eli Pariser.

Dodd Harris suggests, correctly, that the concept of a Socialist claiming property rights is amusing.

John Venlet meanwhile, suggests they paid too

WBZ-AM has announced that David Brudnoy passed away last night, finally giving in to the HIV he was diagnosed with years ago.

Sad.

Hobbs makes an argument that at least a few of my readers will find of interest. He notes on a fairly new blog called “Witting Shire” a post, which says in part:

“If you believe that man is nothing but

Gunman Kills 4 at Ohio Heavy Metal Show

I’m watching this one develop.
Lots of details, but what interests me is motivation, and I’m not getting a clear picture, yet. Comments as they occurr to me.

Update: Fox News has

Lt. Smash has posted An Open Letter to Pablo Paredes. Required reading.

Boortz found him, this morning. Here, my freinds is a typical middle of the road moderate Democrat. Or at least what passes for one. Boortz picks it up from there:

Polite is upset because of David Stoltzfus who runs a

An extention of my long form on the Basketball game/fight of week befrore last;Sports Inebriated is reporting today that

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — After weeks of pouring over videotape from one of the worst fights in U.S. sports history,

A hat tip to Ace of Spades HQ who reminds us that it was 24 years ago tonight that John Lennon was killed.

OK, so his politics were downright abysmal. (A fact that Ace also notes) but it was about

What do you know… ABC and the EU are both starting to understand what we’ve been saying here for years…Radical Islam is a problem

Now, it’ll only take them another 4 years to figure out what to do about

Beckwith, over at Southern Appeal brings up a topic I heard about last night in the chat room. I’ll post the whole thing here, as well, since, given the message, I’m pretty confident he won’t mind.

Operation Phone Card

On

Bob Lonsberry is a local talkshow host. He and I have our disagreements, but this column of his today is spot on.

Just read it.

Happy Birthday, Gennie.

Here’s a hint; 27 looks REALLY good, 20 years later.

Gennie says she shares a birthday with..

– Sinead O’Connor

I dunno how many people I’d admit that to, Gen.

– Terri Hatcher
– Eli Whitney