Dead Man Dying

Memorandum is abuzz with blogs repoting the death Fidell Castro, as if a dead man could die. Here is Perez Hilton:

Sources reveal exclusively to PerezHilton.com that U.S. officials will be holding a press conference shortly to announce the death

WASHINGTON -LA TIMES- The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is expected to advise President Bush to reduce the U.S. force in Iraq next year by almost half, potentially creating a rift with top White House officials and other

The FBI has released photographs of persons of interest who were seen acting suspiciouslly aboard several Seattle area ferries.   The attitude of the Council on American Islamic Relations is summed by the Seattle-Times headline, “FBI’s release of ferry passenger

Glenn Reynolds has the lastest exciting episode of Name that Party.   View the video.

Hat tip:  Allah Pundit, Hot Air.

More, Don Surber.

For reasons beyond the realm of understanding., the New York Daily News, has seen fit to publish a list of demands by the ajudicated defamer, who uses the moniker the Reverend Al Sharpton.   In the article Sharptoin issues

I find myself amused by this Katie Hafner story in the New York Times today… And the impression that the story tries to leave his that’s the edits within Wikipedia we discussed here some day ago, were at its

John Hinderaker over at Powerline asks:

Is Bill Moyers the most contemptible man in American public life?

Perhaps, or perhaps not.  But if not, he is certainly emblematic for the always contemptible left.

The Jawa Report tells us the tale of the magic bullets:

Tuesday August 14, 2007: An elderly Iraqi woman shows two bullets which she says hit her house following an early coalition forces raid in the predominantly Shiite Baghdad suburb

Jim Angle on Hume’s show, last night:

We’ve told you how the use of food crops for biofuels has driven up the prices for tortillas in Mexico, breakfast cereal in the U.S. and beer in Germany.

Now Spiegel Online reports

Goldfarb, over at the Weekly Standard:

It appears that today is a watershed day with regard to US policy in Iraq. Democratic leaders now acknowledge that the surge is working. The only catch is, they say it’s no surprise, they’ve

I’ve been seeing this meme for several days now, ever since it started coming out that we were actually winning, militarily, in Iraq.  I guess I’m a little surprised that the comments are coming from this source, but I’ll

McQ does a fair job of following up on this Beauchamp thing:

“They told stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the

Garbage in, garbage out.  One Chris Goodall demonstrates.  What an attention grabbing headline:

Walking to the shops ‘damages planet more than going by car’
 

Shame the headlines is not supported by by facts contained within the article itself.

Walking

Michael Goldfarb at the Weekly Standard is reporting:

THE WEEKLY STANDARD has learned from a military source close to the investigation that Pvt. Scott Thomas Beauchamp–author of the much-disputed “Shock Troops” article in the New Republic’s July 23 issue as

Kathryn Jean Lopez, Natonal Review, posts: 

Bill Bennett asked this at the top of his show this morning: If Jeri Thompson’s old boyfriend is front-page news, will we get prominent treatment of Hillary Clinton’s husband’s extracurricular activities? Investigative