Maggie's Farm

Beauchamp wanted to be the next Hemingway. Don't we all?

Suburban counterterrorist Shannen Rosmiller

Sorry, Northeast - the South has Risen. Am Thinker

Thompson talks tough on illegal immigration

The truth about Jena, via Powerline via Goldberg.

Belgium update. Moslem immigration is turning it upside down. Atlas

Time for another Boston Tea Party? And, related, how much is America taxing its rich?

Serious pumpkin-carving. Coyote

Why the California fires? CSM. Fire suppression is one of the factors.

Ethanol: Neither renewable nor reliable

A "successful blog"? TechCrunch brings in $250,000 per month in ads. That sort of blog income might cause even Maggie's Farm to reconsider taking ads: it would help cover our bar tabs at Rudy's.

Who endangers Europe more? Islamists or Islamophobes? Augean

This sounds like Mao's China: Touch your toes

Thoreau was a knucklehead. Sippican

Pat Buchanan on global warming:

Like the panics of bygone eras, this one has the aspect of yet another re-enactment of the Big Con. The huckster arrives in town, tells all the rubes that disaster impends for them and their families, but says there may be one last chance they can be saved — but it will take a lot of money. And the folks should go about collecting it, right now.

More at Moonbattery

Pelosi plans a PR blitz to protect the House. The Hill

Thompson talks about his daughter who died.

The myth of the Latino voting bloc. Polipundit

Why Hillary is the GOP's dream opposition. LA Times

Fair and balanced book reviews at the NYT. TigerHawk

Thomas Jefferson was a geek with the ladies.

Thompson: I will campaign the way I want to.

Violence in Iraq drops 70%. Ace. Also, The surge is only the first step, by Jeff Emmanuel at Am. Thinker. And  Bin Laden gives Iraq terrorists a pep talk. Also, What's the next challenge in Iraq? by Ignatius at WaPo.

Advice for the Indians of Manitoba. Black Rod. #1 - No Excuses. h/t, SDA

The UK's NHS has made dentists obsolete.

John Fund on Louisiana's Boy Wonder

"He knew what he was fighting for." The Congressional Medal of Honor, with video.

A push to legalize internet gambling.

Today's speaker line-up for Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week.

Did you miss The Barrister's Yankee Code during our technical problems over the weekend?

It's Islamofascism Awareness Week. Some of the speakers here at Gateway. Photo from No Pasaran

NYC has a private school crisis! NY Sun

Unsexy businesses are the best. Coyote

Ivory Tower hypoxia at the NYT

Apple Cider Pot Roast. This looks good to me.

Barone: The election picture has changed since last year.

A photo visit to Auschwitz. h/t, Grow A Brain

The Clintons and their pets. Can you judge people by how they handle their animals? Sounds like disposable stage props to me.

Chissano on What Africa Needs. S,C&A.

When work becomes a video game.

The Carnival of Education at Education Wonks

h/t, Hot Air

I'd rather have Eco read to me than to read him, and my lengthy weekend road trip was a good opportunity. The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, about a 60 year-old antique book dealer with amnesia, is a bit bloated but has enough gold in it to make it worth it.

The reading by George Guidall, a Broadway actor who has recorded 850 books, is superb. He hams it up, just right.

I am back from my Adirondack hunt. Great fun, of course. I missed quite a few grouse, but I knocked down a few too. Plenty of woodcock around, but I am always ambivalent about shooting them. Glad I missed the technical problems on the blog: it comes of using rustic servers made of wood and baling wire. Saw a fine shooting star, too, and made a wish. Photo is the West Branch of the Ausable River, in Whiteface.

 Daniel Botkin: Global warming doesn't matter. Blue Crab

Jindal's election. A good thing. So that is supposed to prove what, Paul? Classical

Basic difference between libs and conservatives. Captain Ed

Bonfire of the Moral Vanities. Dr. Sanity

Clintonistas rip "cheating Rudy." Is that a wise approach?

ABC spins the funny Limbaugh smear story. Confed. Yank

Gun-free zones and an unarmed citizenry. Wash. Times. Bad guys love gun control.

Who can understand the modern UK? Dust my Broom

Sex criminals vs. fun gals. TigerHawk

Dopamine and mussel glue? Neurophilosophy

Has Harry Reid gone too far to be re-elected? Betsy. I think so.

Does half of America hate Hillary? I don't find her very likeable, but I don't hate her. Just another arrogant, power-hungry pol, who has some wrong assumptions about life and human nature, who wants to use the fruits of my labor to build power, and who thinks she's smarter than she is.

Good news for the Cod? h/t, Flares

"I caused the market crash of 1987." Conspiracy

The EU will not have Free Speech. Gates. The Mandarins will not tolerate it. Related: The Enemy in Brussels.

Liberals are a puzzlement to me, by Bert Prelutsky. A quote:

Why is it that liberals seem to believe that recycling cans is an important issue, but defeating terrorism isn’t? Why do they put so much stock in the blathering of Al Gore and Michael Moore? Why do they regard secondhand smoke as a bigger menace than Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? What is wrong with these people?

Why will the same folks who’d call a cop if someone set foot in their front yard be so unconcerned about 20 million illegal aliens setting up camp in their country? And why will the same saps who work themselves into a tizzy if some small town sets up a Christmas tree in the public square defend a church’s right to provide a sanctuary for foreign nationals who have no business being in our country?

I, your News Junkie, am leaving for a three-day bird hunt tonight, but I am leaving our readers with these:

Keep your $5 million. Joe Torre is gone. Sad about it. It's the end of the Torre Era in New York.

If you don't know what a "Hudna" is, you'd better learn. h/t, Jules

Pakistan finally getting serious. This looks like the real deal.

Brown hands UK sovereignty to Brussels. The Last British Government

"Everything and its opposite is prima facie evidence of a US conspiracy." No Pasaran

The Garden State will be left with nothing but weeds. Ankle Biting

Voters vote with their gut. Pajamas (h/t, Blue Crab's comments on the subject)

A poll of the Right blogosphere. We are centrist, which is surely why Mr. Hawkins did not poll us.

The Barrister referred to obesity earlier today. Mr. Free Market asks "Who ate all the pies?"

Opie sent us the Thelonious Monk download site. Thanks, Opie

Is the value of wine fully reflected in its price? Prof B

The backlash against Gore and globalistical warmening begins

Will Massachusetts be the first state to legalize marriage with robots?

The history of curing ham.

The Dems on education, before they were in the Teachers Union's pocket.

Geographical history of world religion in 90 seconds.

Schools and the sexualization of children. Moonbattery

Rudy on Hillary:

"Honestly, I don't know Hillary's experience. She's never run a city. She's never run a state. She's never run a business. She's never met a payroll. She's never been responsible for the safety and security of millions of people... So I'm trying to figure out where the experience is."

Rudy is telling us - showing us - that he has what it takes to take on the Dems. That is more important to me than whether I agree with everything he has ever said. After all, the only person who is always perfectly right about everything, and with whom I always agree, is me - and I do not want a political job.

The Microsofting of Google. Opinion Journal

Major shareholder bails out of Times

How is the Chinese government doing?

The NYT takes a look at dentistry, finds an unmet need which only government can solve.  (Yes, the NYT is shocked that dentists work for the money.) Further discussion, including how it's done in the UK, at Gates

Opie wonders whether this cool exercise machine does any good. Hammacher Schlemmer

Pig Daddy's.  Read the update by Ric.

Can lack of sleep affect your kids' cognitive ability?

The New Republic claims Osama has won the war. Wishful thinking, TNR.

Speaking of which, How to find the bad news in a pile of good news.

First Boomer.  Welfare for the prosperous.

I agree with neoneo: The only reason to blast Turkey for what was done in 1917 is to undermine the fight for Iraq. It's not stupid - it's malevolent.

Sovereign wealth funds currently manage around $2,600 billion, compared with hedge funds managing $1,700 billion. What does it mean when nations themselves, and not their businesses, buy up foreign assets?

Tangled Web is not comfortable with it. The US will propose strict rules for these funds at next week's G7 meeting.

As we have said here, free-riders (parasites) on our medical care amount to 3% of the total funds. Mankiw. So what's the big deal?

The death of the record industry. TimesOnline

"It's too bad they can't make hysteria illegal." Classical Values

"You can't be too careful," so finish your wine.

Indoctrination vs. Instruction in Iowa

"Wars have been fought over less than what the ACLU is doing to this country." Moonbattery

Google top-ranked video: Hillary scandals

The schools that Katrina built. A hurricane is what it takes to change the schools. h/t, Viking

"News you can use." Where are the most libertine women?

Hitchens: "... let me introduce you to one of the most generous and decent families in the United States, and allow me to tell you something of their experience."

A Death in the Family

Suspended for picture of Jesus. Daily Mail. If you can't hang pin-ups anymore, and you can't hang a picture of Jesus or a cartoon of Mohammed, what can you decorate with? Thomas Kincaids?

Al Qaida crippled? WaPo. They decided to make their stand in Iraq, and counted on the anti-war movement to aid in their success. Wrong. It will be discouraging for their recruitment efforts.

More Art for Art's Sake. Daily Mail. Can you hear me now?

The New Yorker used to have little bits titled "There will always be an England." If they still had that, they would have printed this squirrely story.

Big Mako. 844 lbs.

Celebrity phones.

Gore slammed by prominent meteorologist.

My pheasant-shooting woes. The sad tale at Mr. Free Market. That's why shooting preserves in the Eastern US put birds out and shoot them a half hour later. Admittedly not very sporting, since they have never been outside a pen. That's why we call them "flying mattresses," and try to give them plenty of distance.

80 million years without sex. BBC Science. It does feel that way sometimes.

Photo: Big bunny. Patrick Pleul, EPA / Corbis - German Giants: Breeder Karl Szmolinsky, here in January, breeds rabbits like this one weighing more than 20 pounds at his farm in Eberswalde.

Iraq sees dramatically low death toll. Good for Iraq, and good for America.

Related: More on what Gen. Sanchez really said, at neoneo.

Vaclav Klaus "surprised" by Gore Nobel, wonders what Gore has done for peace.

Where our Homeland Security money is going. And, even dumber, The Gumball Threat.

The Family Cloth. Sheesh. I do not want to be that Green. h/t, Thompson

Secrets of the Knights Templar. AOL News

Jewish Elders lift 6000 year-old ban on ham! Onion

The rest of the story: What the MSM omitted from the Sanchez speech.

Draft Al Gore! Not likely, I think. Is said to despise the Clintons, but is fearful of them.

Did you know that the environmental movement was a moral "struggle"? And that I am, apparently, morally bankrupt? At least I have no debt, and I only lie to girls. White lies.

From Flopping:

On Wednesday, Hillary said: "I have a million ideas. The country can't afford them all."

Hillary's just getting started. In another year this figure could be quadrupled. See the background material here.

Gee, that's funny, because I have a million ideas too, and all of them are about reducing the power and scope of the federal government for the freedom and benefit of the citizens.

Has the political atmosphere shifted back to redistributionism? Be careful. It's easy to kill the goose.

Kiss my ass, Empire State Building, says Ace

Moronic Islamists go after Buddha again. They hate Buddha as much as they hate Jews. Also, how the Islamists attempt to influence Western elections.

Banning knives in the UK

Burning food for cars is stupid. Coyote. We agree. We have 500 years worth of oil in North America. Let's use it, while we build nuke plants.

Sarkozy: “If you think 53 makes you old enough to retire, then fine, go ahead and retire. But don’t expect the state to pay for it.”

Rudy's to lose. Cafe Hayek. I agree. Imperfect as he is, I think he's my guy. I was hoping for Thompson, but he seems half-asleep.

Moose using human shields.

We agree with Robert Reich! - against farm subsidies. Long outdated, but proof that once a govt gives a handout, it's tough to take it away.

New NASA evidence refutes global warming. Gateway. The video is good.

Even SF is fed up with human poop on the sidewalk. Jules. I thought they were compassionate and tolerant there. Bums are people too.

Got an elephant problem? Try bees.

Brit National Health turning to private insurors for help.

Who would expect this in Switzerland?

Is "personal responsibility" a "simplistic" notion? The NYT thinks so.

Vincente Fox called me a racist. Not only is he in error, but what did he do to make his citizens want to live in their own country?

Did you read about the "cascade effect" among scientists? They are human, after all.

Wise advice from Scott at Powerline, with this quote from Tony Blankley:

Every faction within the GOP coalition should agree immediately to make no further demands of their party. Just as the liberals did in 1991 and 1992, the conservatives of 2007 and 2008 simply should let their strongest candidate campaign in a way most likely to gain victory. Every conservative principle thereby would be safer than if heavy demands yield a Hillary presidency. Given the grotesque irresponsibility of the national Democrats, keeping them out of the White House should be the first calling of every patriotic conservative.

Photo was from Classical Values, last year

Randall Hoven's 101 Top Media Lies. Am. Thinker

Moslem medical students want special rules

Media still searching for the "defining atrocity." Neoneo. Exactly right. More on the inside story of Haditha at Sister Toldjah

Obama mixes church and state, says God should be guide. MSM silent. Also at Riehl. Driscoll says Obama wants to immanentize the eschaton, which we have discussed here at some length. That ain't Christian theology.

Two years of summer Arctic ice melt. Here's why.

The suicide bomber academy in Damascus.

China evacuates 1.4 million in face of typhoon. I think they have a more compliant population than New Orleans.

Father Desbois studies the fate of the 1.5 million Ukrainian Jews shot by the Germans. "The holocaust of bullets."

Quoted from Viking:

Hooverville, it's not - Suitably Flip: "It's Official: Bush Economy Achieves Longest Period Of Job Creation On Record" I blame the tax cuts. (HT: Astute Bloggers)

Purpose of appendix found, maybe. It's a bacteria-container.

Al Gore understands the need for the US to be in Iraq. Anchoress

Anti-semitism at the University of California? Stillwell

Image:  Chris Columbus, noted Italian-American racist, imperialist tool, Capitalist, and killer of brown people. He was also the founder of Columbia University and Columbus, Ohio.

Re that kid who was trotted out by the Dems to promote SCHIP, here's the rest of the story at Surber, Insty, and Steyn. Apparently this family made life choices which did not include insurance for their kids.

That is not "need." That is "choice." In America, we try to take responsibility for our choices like big boys and girls. (h/t, Buddy)

Violence in middle-class schools. How come nobody wants to admit that rotten behavior comes from rotten character, and not from the outside?

A Davos Declaration on Tourism. To my vast surprise, the tourist industry did not declare a ban on air travel despite its effects on the global warming crisis. They really do care, though - and that's what counts.

Al Qaida bagman in the bag. Lucianne. That has gotta hurt.

No more Halloween in Broomfield. What's Broomfield? And who dislikes Halloween other than evangelical Christians? Moslems? WTF? WTH?

Ancient engineers, without "math skills." Without math, too. Science Daily

"Where have all the peaceniks gone?" Am. Thinker, re Burma

The venerable Hamilton College finally gets a Hamilton Institute. In part, they objected to "Hamilton." Huh?