Airbus A380 Completes Maiden Test Flight

So says Slashdot.

They’ve got pics, too.

In answer to the repeated questions from readers….

Yes, I have seen the Drudge Flash. I even heard the event on air. But I didn’t comment on it here for several reasons.

First and foremost; Err America engaging in

Remember under Reagan the rich actually paid more in taxes than everyone else? Odd, the Democrats never gave him credit for that, still claiming that the irch were not paying their fair share, whatever the hell that was supposed to

Pravda West, otherwise known as the WaPo is amazingly reporting something positive about President Bush. Only reason I can think of that they’d do such a thing is that they don’t consider that it’s all that positive a thing…. (Actually

AP- WASHINGTON – Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist on Tuesday rejected compromise offers that would allow minority Democrats to continue to block judicial nominees, saying all of President Bush’s past and future court choices deserve confirmation votes from the GOP-controlled

Captain’s Quarters note this morning that there’s a rather large hole in the report we were all fed yesterday about there being no weapons sent to Syria.  As I noted on OTB yesterday… seems to me they’d forgotten about that

Austin Bay Blog notes a report at the CBC which pases on some quotes from Canadian ambassador to Denmark Alfonso Gagliano, who says in part:

“The separation of Quebec from Canada is not stoppable,’ Alfonso Gagliano told Radio-Canada. “He’s going

Tim from Portland west, reminds me of another cancer survivor…Tony Snow is back on the radio… this being his second day. Says he’s feeling fine.

That pleases me no end… I’ve always rather liked that chap.

I’m seeing (thusfar unconfirmed) rumblings that Voinovich will now vote for Bolton and that the ads against him have been pulled.

Speculation: This is beginning to sound like he wanted some stroking.

More as I find.

KJL has sad news to pass along:

I’m keeping Laura Ingraham in my prayers and I know a lot of you will want to too. She found out Friday that she has breast cancer and will be operated on today.

INteresting comments from Michial Novak this morning on The Corner:

“If God is dead,” a brother Karamazov said, “everything is permitted.” Well, obviously there are atheists who have a strongly reasoned, and as they see it “objective” moral code

Jon over at Q & O has (correctly) decided there is a war for the hearts and minds of America.. Then he tries to identify who is fighting for what, puts his uniquely keen mind to the task and leaps

The Astute Blogger lives up to his name, this morning.

“I betchya that IRAQ – rife with neojihadist and neobaathist terror and nagged by lingering ethnic divisions (between Sunni Arabs, Sunni Kurdish, Shia and the Turkmen), and trying democracy for

John Leo argues that “Justice Sunday” will only add to polarization. Frankly, given the majority we now have, I fail to see how that is a problem. Such polarization would only reinforce how far out of the mainstream the ACLU

I’ve always found Chris Dodd’s seemingly going to bat for the Turtle Bay Crime Family, (TM) otherwise laughingly known as the “United Nations” amusing. But I’d like to make note of something that Novak mentions, almost in passing, in his