Doesn’t Fit the Narrative

Michelle notes that to get the story of what’s happening in Iraq, you need to turn to the newspapers… in Austrailia.

IT is whispered about at the margins of meetings, and discussed in Washington parties where rumour is passed around

By now, just about everyone is all over this Musharraf thing.

Perhaps it’s as well that I point you toward Memeorandum for the latest. Particularly from there, I’m finding The Corner to be useful. Also, Michelle is on top of

David Kopel at Volokh 

Earlier this week, Sen. Fred Thompson wrote to Field & Stream magazine, criticizing the UN’s campaign against the human right of self-defense. The Thompson campaign touted the letter on its website, and the letter got a

Lucy Laing, Daily Mail(UK) has the good news of the “boy who refused to die.”

Commentary by Karen, Doses of Reality:

This story has stirred up some conflicting emotions in me. On the one hand you

Captain Ed notes:

Pervez Musharraf has declared a state of emergency in Pakistan, apparently not content to wait for the Supreme Court decision on his presidential election victory last month. So far, he has given no reason for the declaration,

An interesting, but alas, not particularly shocking article appeared over at Q&O yesterday under the headline 8 of the 19 9/11 hijackers were registered to vote.

We all saw or are now familiar with the recent dust-up in the

CONCERNED LOCAL CITIZENS LEAD COALITION FORCES TO CACHE LOCATION

Posted: 30 Oct 2007 03:41 PM CDT

CONCERNED LOCAL CITIZENS LEAD COALITION FORCES TO CACHE LOCATION

Doctor Charles Krauthammer, this morning, over at Real Clear Politics, by way of Memeorandum:

The problem is Bill. But not the way it is usually understood, i.e., the sex scandal waiting to happen. There is that, of course. But

Gotta love it:

From: The Dread Pundit Bluto
To: Glenn Greenwald
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 12:52 PM

Glenn,

All fun and kidding aside (and this has been fun, at least for me), do you, for the record, categorically deny

John Harris over at the Politico:

Congressional Democrats certainly know the power of a throw-the-bums-out message. It vaulted them to power a year ago this week. Little wonder anxiety is boiling over inside the new majority as lawmakers ponder a

Father of slain Marine wins court judgment against Fred Phelps. Michelle Malkin has the background:

Father of slain Marine wins case against foul Phelps family

The normally rational Ed Morrissey, Captain’s Quarters, leads a long list of bloggers who

It’s as I said yesterday… the left… and this of course includes the press, is truly worried about Hillary Clinton getting the Democratic Party nod. How else would something like this appear in anything to do with the New York

In thinking on the events of last night, I’ve come to the conclusion that the left is really worried about Hillary Clinton winning the nomination. I mean, REALLY worried. The usual Hillary Clinton cheering sections, such a Ezra Klein,

Boortz yesterday, picked up in mid-description…

It seems that this person focus right now is in helping this sector of our economy avoid unionization. Unions are, apparently, hot to organize senior living facilities. OK .. so there’s no surprise there

Look, let’s call this what it is:

Saying that Glen Greenwald is a drooling, lying, sock puppeting idiot, is not a political statement.  Provacative, perhaps, and arguably correct, but it’s not political.
And that goes for Greg