The Long Road.

Billy Beck makes a point that I made yesterday:

Doug Mataconis links and quotes Radley Balko on the latest rumblings among the savages:

“This is why ‘spreading democracy’ is such a foolish foreign policy objective. There are lots

Gerry Willis , in the Los Angeles Times,  attempts a tortured defense of the practice of abortion:

But is abortion murder? Most people think not. Evangelicals may argue that most people in Germany thought it was all right to

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

Good lord, it MUST be.

I mean, in the last week, I’ve gotten… and I kid you not, around 1000 notes telling me I need enlargement.

I dunno. Only thing I can figure is my reputation somehow became otherwise than

Over at Blue Crab Blvd, Gaius tells us:

Christopher Booker and Richard North, writing in the Sunday Telegraph, detail the incredible levels of fraud and deceit behind the global warming scare. The article is a preview of their new

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

An interesting note from Glenn today. He’s apparently come to the very same conclusion I came to years ago:

DO NOT TRUST CONTENT FROM ANDREW SULLIVAN: I can’t go around answering all of Andrew Sullivan’s misrepresentations, but it’s telling that

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

Apparently, the press is desperate to get something in the paper to push Norman Hsu off the front page, and for the ability to say “They have crimnials too”. Via Memeorandum, The WaPo is an example:

Republican presidential candidate Fred

Irish eyes are not smiling: 

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) -It took 44 years and three overtimes for Navy to beat Notre Dame again.

The Midshipmen snapped an NCAA-record 43-game losing streak to the Fighting Irish on Saturday with

I’ve got one in the quips, that runs something like this:

There is no such thing as an “illegal immigrant”. Either they are immigrants, who arrived here and live here legally, or they are criminals. The former, are entitled to

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

Rich Lowry has an interesting article on Real Clear Politics by way of Memeorandum:

Would someone be fit to be attorney general of the United States if he had once said, “I think there are probably very few people in

The more I read Joe Klein the more I’m convinced the guy is working at being stupid. Nobody could come by his level of stupid, naturally. When he opens with this, you know it’s going to be brainless:

I’m puzzled

Mega-Idiot, Matt Stoller:

I like Tom Perriollo, though I find this diatribe on the common good very annoying.

Censorship may not be a viable or appropriate solution, but do any of us honestly believe that the ready availability of internet