Fort Dix?

The Star-Ledger is reporting:

Federal investigators last night arrested six Islamic radicals who were planning a heavily armed attack against soldiers at Fort Dix as part of a jihad against America, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

In a statement

Must have been a slow news day.   The media has a stock of standard stories they periodically dust-off and then foist-off as if they were new.   The nice thing about blogging about them, is that no new creative effort is

Kerstin Gehmlich reports on a potential pitfall for Mrs. Clinton’s campaign:

PARIS (Reuters) – Socialist Segolene Royal failed to win over a majority of women voters in France’s presidential election and may have paid a price for focusing

James Lileks, a terrific writer and one of the best newspaper columnists in America, says on his blog today that his newspaper, the Minneapolis-St.Paul Star-Tribune, has decided to kill his column and have him write straight local news stories. This

The Associated Press reported on republican in general, and the Rudy Guliani campaign in particualr, dissatisfaction  with the selction of Keith Olbermann as republican debate moderator.

Greenwald seemed to resent the characterization of Olbermann as the partisan hack that he

Continuing from the earlier post, there’s another lesson we can learn from recent events in Europe: Perhaps our image in the world isn’t quite so damaged as the left would have us think.

We have in France a President

CAMARILLO, Calif. â€”AP–  Gasoline prices have surged to a record nationwide average of $3.07 per gallon, nearly 20 cents higher than two weeks earlier, according to oil industry analyst Trilby Lundberg.

The previous record was $3.03 per gallon on

Financial Times– Paris– Let the finger-pointing begin. Ségolène Royal’s defeat on Sunday night left the French Socialist party in disarray and searching for someone to blame. There is hardly a shortage of scapegoats.

It is the party’s third consecutive presidential

How dumb can dumb get?  In the case of Sheryl Crow, it is pretty dumb.  From the Puffington Post:

We have risen to great heights of arrogance in our refusal to acknowledge that the earth is changing.

Can Crow

Cliintoniods call it parsing, like the meaning of the word ‘is.” Normal folks just call it lying.  B.J. Clinton could lie with finese.  Alas, Mrs. Clinton lacks her husbands language skill.

Here is what the Pinch Sulzberg vanity blog is

PARIS, France (CNN) — Conservative Nicolas Sarkozy greeted news of his election Sunday to a five-year term as France’s president with a vow to serve as a leader for all people of France.

“The president of the republic must love

Fukuyama, in the LAT today, argues, ‘so what if Iraq ends up in a civil war’?

An intensifying civil war will be a tragedy for Iraq, but it is not the worst outcome from a U.S. standpoint to have a

So today is cinco De Mayo.  Or as those who actually speak English say it, May 5.  This gets celebrated because of a victory by the Mexicans over the French.  Which, given what we’ve seen of the French, of late,

James, over at OTB writes today about an article posted by worldpublicopinion.org :

(Link fixed, sorry James…-Ed) 

Worldpublicopinion.org a project of the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, has recently published an public opinion poll on

So asks the AP.

NEW YORK -AP- In an angry commentary on April 25, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann accused Rudolph Giuliani of using the language of Osama bin Laden with “the same chilling nonchalance of the madman” to argue that