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ACLU in LA opposes Katrina cross memorial on private land with private funds.  You get the idea that, like the devil, a cross is death to them. And more: Alaska ACLU attacks church property tax exemptions.

Special K may be a quick-acting antidepressant. Like heroin? Globe

What will be the impact of the MySpace-Google alliance? TG Daily

Great example of fauxtography: Michelle

Bernard Lewis warns about the 22nd of August. (Drudge)

Moslem woman-only beaches - in Italy!  Will they take their burkhas off? What do they wear underneath? God forbid they have to associate with Italians, with all of those guys staring at their bella figura.

Lieberman website and email hacked and shut down. Breitbart. Here is where his site was, until last night. I see a federal case. Lannie Davis will not be surprised.

Hotties in the IDF. h/t, Tim Blair

Pollsters surprised by Hillary negatives. Why?

Tort scams, and Vioxx. The latest. Is it true that over 50% of tort cases are scams?

The view from my alley in Baghdad. Iraq the Model

Cover your goats' genitals or face death - In Iraq. For whom, may I ask, are goat genitals arousing? Is that a Moslem thing, or what?

Blogs will rebel against political speech. Yes - we all will. And we will not vote for McCain, either. Kim

Half of US skeptical about media propaganda. Only half?

Dixie Chicks cancelling tour dates. Sold a million of their newest, though.

It's August - but the news will not quit. Reutersgate update, at Pajamas. Another Reuters scam. God knows how many times this same distraught lady has lost a home in Lebanon? Ynet notes that the Qana thing was staged, and by now everyone knows about the ubiquitous Mr. Green Helmet.

Napster may be for sale again. 

LA Mayor scared into apologizing to Moslems for his sympathy for Israel. What a pussy schmuck.

What is wrong with "world opinion"? Everything. Rightly So

Farewell to Susan Butcher. The only Iditerod driver whose name  I knew, either.

Do  you vote with your amygdala or your prefrontal cortex (I use my hand, personally.)

Russia drifting backwards, but without the Commie excuse this time. Publius

PC.  A healthy essay on the insidious topic. Linknzona

The problem with universal suffrage. Uncle Felzer, at Moonbattery.

Unbelievable hypocrisy from Kofi Annan. Is anyone surprised?

Over-privileged kids. Is it any favor for them? Conspiracy

Doublespeak in the Middle East. From our pal at Grandaddy

Iran and U-238. Where are the headlines?

Where have all the flowers gone? Will the Pete Seeger pacifist Left ever learn? Captain Ed

Move On determined to crush Lieberman. Lamont  probably will - but what kind of victory is defeating your own party? Is that worth a celebration? And did everyone already read Peretz' piece in Opinion Journal?

Moslem London big wig copper blames Brit Moslem rage on Islamophobia. Has he been chatting with Al Sharpton?

An excellent - if slanted - review of Lebanon, and the role of Hez in their politics, appearing in this coming Sunday's NYT Magazine. One quote:

Hezbollah’s crowning moment came in May 2000, when Israeli forces withdrew from Lebanon after a 22-year presence. Refusing to accept the U.N.’s judgment that the withdrawal was complete, Hezbollah vowed to continue its ‘‘resistance.’’ While Hezbollah never quite made clear whether its resistance was ‘‘Lebanese’’ or ‘‘Islamic’’ in spirit (both terms were used interchangeably), this ambiguity went to the heart of the matter. Hezbollah simultaneously represented radical religious militancy and a peculiar sort of Lebanese patriotism, based on an existential struggle against Israel and the convenient ignoring of Syrian domination.

Whole thing here.

WWW turned 15 yesterday. Synthstuff

The beauty premium. Yes, if you look good, you tend to get paid more.

Did Feminism destroy "real men"? Daily Mail

Mine is bigger than yours.  The average new American house was 1600 sq. ft in 1975, and it was 2400 sq ft in 2005.

Did Steinbeck create the myth of the Okies and the Dust Bowl? New Criterion says yes.

Why do I love Beirut? Rantings of a Sandmonkey. Sissy has a couple of photo reasons, also.

Is Nasrallah the new Arafat? Big Pharoah

Square watermelons?  I do not like these. Alphecca

When they say The Commandante "will be back with us soon", do they mean like Lenin, under glass? And where is Waldo  Raul?  Is he alive? Something odd is going on in Cuba.

Live tropical fish trade is destroying reef life.

Lamont update. We told you it was a strange campaign. Just One Minute. Now it turns out he owns Wal-Mart stock (not in a fund, either), but preaches agin 'em. Woopsie. I thought our MA Dems were kooks, but CT is winning that contest.

India orders Coke and Pepsi to make their formulae public. That'll be the day. My opinion? Camel urine, plus sugar. And why are we in Iraq? Forget oil. We are there for the benefit of Big Soda - for the camel urine.

The end may be near for ACLU judicial blackmail. Moonbattery

Yo Dilbert. Do cubicles have a future? The inventor of them regretted it.

Hez declares open war on the US. Does that mean Iran does too? Front Page

Dems increasingly renounce Israel. Betsy

Oysters. Dr. Bliss inspired me to check the Oyster Bar's menu. Yes, they do offer many oyster varieties! And it is never the same. I'll take one of each.

New York Night Life.  Chatted with an early-20s kid working in NYC this summer. I learned that the young folks do not go out for the night until 11 or 12 pm. That's when the fun starts. And they tend to end up in Alphabet City around 4 AM. Only a few years ago, you would not enter Alphabet City without a Marine Corps guard. What a city!  Thank you, Rudy. Thank you, Mike. They took NY back! Back from the creeps, and back from the Dem machine creepy politicians. It proves that you need two political parties. Sad to say, the Dems were killing the world's greatest city - while claiming it was "ungovernable." Yes - ungovernable by them. Rudy and Mike are not owned by anybody. Name me a single person who doesn't wish they owned a pied a terre in NY, these days.

Argument and disputation. Best basic intro to clear thinking and effective argument-building that I have come across thus far: Attacking Faulty Reasoning by T. Edward Damer. He also makes a strong case for the idea that moral positions are as amenable to logical inquiry as anything else. Our Maggie's Farm Barrister made me read it. A college course for $15 ain't bad.

Is China engaged in organ-harvesting? From the phone calls quoted here, it sure sounds like it. We forget - because we want to forget - that people in the East have a different view of the value of the individual human life from that of us in the West. It's a multicultural thing, ya know?

"Jews distrust the wrong Christians." Kesler

The heat wave in Yankeeland broke last night. It was fun, while it lasted.

Surgeons find odd collection of stuff in Serbian guy's stomach. That's Serbia for you.

Anthill Socialism. Don't you want to sacrifice for the Greater Good? Don't you want your kids to learn how?  People's Cube

AOL: They emailed their new strategery today. Free AOL. Precisely what it's worth.

A blog, called Get Rich Slowly. h/t, Synthstuff. But who wants to get rich slowly? I want MINE, NOW.

OK. This is funny. Preppy Rap: Tea Partay at Youtube  (fixed it)

"I hate foreigners." Better not say that in Britain. The Thought Police siren will be getting closer every second. This is exactly like the Stasi or the Gestapo - and it is evil. Hey Brit coppers - I hate foreigners. I hate foreigners. I hate foreigners. Ha ha. Well, maybe I don't, but I can say it all I want.

More on churches in disarray, self-doubt, and general wackiness. Hey, preachers! It's very simple: Come to Jesus, or get another job. A quote from Maxed Out Mama's piece:

And another thing - it was after women started to be ordained as ministers within the Episcopalian church that it drove right off the rails. I predict that the next generation of Catholics are going to be a lot more conservative in their opinions. I laughed in the early 80's when Episcopalian women started holding conferences and talking about the "godess Sophia". But I cried when the diocese of Pennsylvania had "alternate liturgies" posted on its website that were clearly Wiccan in 2004, and conflicted ministers who could not decide whether they wanted to be Druids or Episcopalians most in 2005. And I wasn't even surprised when the Episcopalian conference refused a resolution suggesting the road to salvation lay through Jesus this year. They're now quite proud to claim that they cannot offer a "definitive road to salvation".

If they cannot offer that, then why the heck should I go to church when I could sleep in with the girlfriend du jour? (see photo)

Standing on the waters casting your bread
While the eyes of the idol with the iron head are glowing.
Distant ships sailing into the mist,
You were born with a snake in both of your fists while a hurricane was blowing.
Freedom just around the corner for you
But with the truth so far off, what good will it do?

Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune,
Bird fly high by the light of the moon,
Oh, oh, oh, Jokerman.

So swiftly the sun sets in the sky,
You rise up and say goodbye to no one.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread,
Both of their futures, so full of dread, you don't show one.
Shedding off one more layer of skin,
Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within.

(Rest of lyrics below: for a Youtube video of the song, here. For the original recorded version, which is remarkable, here)

Wal-Mart 101: A primer on why cities should want Wal-Marts around. It's called jobs, and affordable shopping. The NY Sun explains how dumb the Chicago aldermen were to keep Wal-Mart in the suburbs and out of the city. On the other hand, Wal-Mart's growth has been disappointing in Europe. Reason discusses why they aren't charmed by it - it's cultural.

They call this new technology: houses made from living trees and vines. I call it stone-age technology. What do you think?

Israel admits mistake with Qana. More honor there than you will see in ten centuries of Jihad.

Andy Card: keep up with his three-part interview at Newsmax. He asserts media did harm security.

We posted Melanie Phillip's Londonistan recently. The otherwise fine, huge, and worthy Brooklyn Public Library has decided not to buy it. Scared of the Moslems. That is sick. They aren't afraid of offending anyone else, for sure. Can it be bought in Londonistan, I wonder?

Wonder what the Unitarians are up to these days? It's a bit hard to understand. Cramer. Sounds like they believe in nothing, and accept everything..or something.

Ledeen, quoted in Powerline, re the Dem's war against Bush - he gets it exactly right:

No one can doubt that this is a willful disinformation campaign, aimed at paralyzing and then destroying the president. I do not think people in the White House have ever fully appreciated their peril.

Ned gets jiggy with the poverty pimps and the net nutjobs. Michelle. 

I suspect that they have no idea who Ned is or what he is about. And do not care, if they can own him. Did he have to pay ("donate") to these people to show up? Can someone please find out?  If these folks had power, what would they do to the the rest of us?, asks Captain Ed. 

Supporters of Lamont have now put Lieberman in minstrel show blackface - no joke - image on right. I have no doubt that the blacks of Bridgeport will come out in droves to support a rich, white Greenwich prep school country clubber heir of multi-millions who probably doesn't have a single Dem golf buddy. Could these folks even be caddies at his club, or could Maxine Waters get a job as a waitress there?

To make things more ridiculous, to please the teacher's union, Ned has come out opposing charter schools. Come on, Ned. Your kids went to the most exclusive private school in the USA. Why shouldn't everyone have a choice like Ned did? And, BTW, black voters support school choice.

Is it all about, for these people (not Ned, tho), get the Jew? You have to wonder. Politics makes strange bedfellows, but this is ridiculous. Whatever he had to "donate" to them to come to the wilds of wealthy, suburban CT, he will owe them, big-time. Honestly, I think Ned is a good, well-intentioned, innocent fellow with peculiar Socialist family politics which he inherited along with his J P Morgan $, but this is getting WIERDER and WIERDER. CT voters are not racist (Lieberman is strongly supported by instate black politicians), but they aren't Al Sharpton and Maxine Waters fans.

My opinion? Ned has gone over the edge, partly because of inexperience, and partly out of naivete. The support of the Lefty blogs, extortionist Jesse Jackson, and con-man Al Sharpton, is the kiss of death: Lieberman wins, either way.

Update: To his credit, Lamont had that blackface image removed. Or, I should say, "scrubbed."

Update: Ex-Donk sees it the same way.

Wish I owned some of the private equity in YouTube. It's a great site, and a great service, and has already overtaken MySpace. Watch out, eBay. Wonder if Google will try to buy them before the $ gets higher.

Slacker males: Not the greatest generation. Viking

Stick with Babalu for Castro death watch #2713.

New work on the genetics of autism. Science Daily

A little tour through hell: Not with Vergil -  Maxed Out Mama visits the Dem blogs. Not a pretty sight.

Getting it straight: Terrorists don't have to follow the rules. The West has to. I agree with that thesis, as long as we kill the terrorists. Dem Project gets a bit upset about the double standard. Who doesn't? Happy to say that Israel is moving in with adequate ground troops. And Hezbollywood may turn out to be the scam story of the year: people believe what they want to believe.

No work ethic in Europe.  They subscribe to the "Vacation Ethic." But what about people who want to work hard, and do things, and not laze about like cows in a field? Tangled

Rick reviews the decline of chivalry in warfare. Part of the world is still in the "try to be chivalrous" mode, and the rest doesn't give a damn.

Media Lies: This time, the Detroit News. Israpundit

SPP and NASCO: The most under-reported major story of the year. RWH

Where were the men in the Qana rubble? The mystery grows. SISU

Cuba's hereditary dictatorship: What is his brother Raul like? Breibart. Charming fellow.

French ban topless sumbathing in Paris. I knew they were nuts, but this is the final proof.

An interview with Roger McGuinn. PopMatters. h/t, Althouse

AOL to unveli strategic direction on Weds. I can't wait.

CT newspapers support Lieberman: NYT supports challenger, but can't quite explain why. Calif. Yank

This absurd statement by the French: Iran is a respected, stabilizing force in the middle east. Is that just diplomat talk? YARGB

Ortega poised to be elected in Nicaragua. How nice for them. RTLC

Israel wonders what happened in Qana.

Size matters. Cartridge size and efficiency. h/t, Alphecca. My question - who cares about efficiency?

The list of lone Moslem shooters in the US grows longer. Anyone see a pattern yet?

Ramsey Clark plans emergency march against US support of Israel. Why?

Hez promises "next big battle" will be against the Leb politicians. This does not sound promising. Big Pharoah

Obrador shuts down Mexico City to protest losing the election. No wonder Mexico is such a mess. This goes beyond being a sore loser.

The photo proof that Haz is shooting from houses, in violation of Geneva.

New Orleans getting back to normal: 6 murders in one day.

A cease fire is a Hez victory. Jerusalem Post

Mel Gibson? Why do we care what movie stars say, drunk or sober? But that was really bad.

Atlas is covering the war from up close.

An interview with Roger Scruton, one of our favorite essayists. Find out what he thinks are the two things America can do to improve itself. h/t, Weekend Pundit

A pastor disowns pulpit politics. Makes sense to me, but his parishioners are not pleased.

Nashville Skyline. Maggie's Farm's Dylanologist is making the big move from Yankee-land, across the Mason-Dixon line to Music City to pursue his career. We wish him the best, and ask that the Volunteer State rebels treat him well. Even though he is a Yank, he's one of the good ones, and he'll keep working for us. To commemorate this, we offer two old YouTubes of Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan, One Too Many Mornings and Girl from the North Country.

And, speaking of the Southland - the Aquazone Bass Edition. Turn your monitor into a wild bass aquarium.  The flag? That flag don't stand for slavery none: it stands for the never-ending rebel, anti-authoritarian, anti-smarty-pants expert, free-thinkin' American spirit. Plenty of us Yanks admire and respect that rebel heart and soul and especially - God Bless him - the great American, Gen. Robert E. Lee.

Bush made me buy property in Crawford, says Cindy Sheehan. Wizbang.  This peculiar lady is an endless source of humor, but sometimes one feels sorry for her due to some emotional condition, despite being a traitor, an idiot, and a tool.

The Top 100 Fly-Fishing sites. Here.

Chicago shoots itself in the foot. Why not go all the way and set the minimum wage at 100/hour? Rick explains, patiently.

The ACLU scam: find a sympathetic judge, then clean up with the big bucks, just like trial lawyers with juries. But, win or lose, WE PAY the bill.  RWN explains.

New Sisyphus is thinking that something evil is loose in the world.

The Congregational Church, Town Meetings, and American democracy. Tom Brewton

Juan Williams leaves the Plantation. God Bless him. YARGB

On his way east from LA and Seattle, the Dylanologist stopped by to see his old friends at Pine Butte this week. Yes, snow in July. Great place. Photo.

If you are concerned about global warming, you will support this fix.

The genetics of "tameness," in NYT Science News/ I think I have enough of these genes to grow a garden, but not enough to be a good husband.

Bumble bee flies 8 miles to its home.

Good weekend day trip, if you are anywhere near Storm King. Always thought that was a killer name for a mountain. Those Hudson Highlands are surprising.

Zero to sixty in 4 seconds - on a battery. Alphapatriot. Cheap too.

Fisk - of all people - on Beirut. Many people are fond of Lebanon.

Cluck, cluck. Women in the UK may be able to sell their eggs. Tangled Web. Just like Brave New World. Can you get, brown, white, organic, large and medium?

Lamont: 2.8 million in 2005 income, 5000 in charity. Typical Dem - Let The Govt Do It. Just One Minute. Cannot include the Family Fund - I suspect that's a foundation with legally-required disbursement.

What's wrong with English instruction? Newmark, via Betsy

Cohen on survival and proportionality. Sanity.

How is this? Whole thing here:

"Islamic Iran will not be deprived from its obvious nuclear right, even by a resolution by an useless U.N. Security Council," Ahmad Khatami told worshippers at Friday prayers in Tehran, broadcast live on state radio.

Convert your LP records to CDs, with an Ion Turntable. Great idea. Does it eliminate the scratches?

Believe them - or don't. Moslems want to re-establish the Caliphate. They are not joking. Kidding around is not their schtick.

Dems propose a bill to halt global warming. It's another feel-good thing. If it does any good, I'll let you smack me with a mackeral and call me Mildred. On same subject, more evidence that Kyoto is a scam. Env. Repub

Doug Ten Napel provides a penetrating rebuttal to a comment on embryonic stem cells. Doug is like one of those guys who got Ds in college, read only comic books, and was smarter than anyone else.

Nasrallah is displeased. The IDF hacked into his communications network. I heard on the radio that he ran away and is at the Beirut Sheraton. Would love to run into this guy down in the bar, trying to pick up chicks.

How "assortive mating" affects social mobility. People tend to mate with those of similar income/education. Stumbling. Maybe a govt regulation against this insidious practice?

The Long Tail. Am I the only one who hasn't read this book? A review

Ampakines sound like good stuff. They reverse memory loss. They reverse what?

Edith let me take her photo at the beach on Sunday, but she refused a dinner date. (Is it still Sweeps Month? But we don't do ads anyway...) What the heck - she says she's 24 but she could be under-age anyway. Sour canteloupes?

Anderson Cooper confused about what a terrorist is. Wizbang

Nuclear power. The NYT can't figure it out. Jim Miller

Clinton duplicity: Do as I say,...  Pardon My English

Cindy Sheehan's fast: Not looking any skinnier...

Lee might be right about this:

We need to just accept the fact that the only thing holding Iraq together was Saddam, and just like Tito’s Yugoslavia was broken into smaller states, so should Iraq.

Al Jazeera is supporting Rick Santorum's opponent.

If you passed over it, go back and read yesterday's link to Brussel's Journal.

Hurricanes: The problem is people building and living too close to the coast. Duh. NYT At Maggie's Farm, we oppose any new Federally-subsidized flood insurance. It's stupid: we subsidize people to live in flood zones, then have to pay to rescue them from floods and hurricanes and to rebuild in the same place. Only govt could be that dumb. But it's not their money, is it?

Could be some truth to this, from piece in The Guardian:

Another Hizbullah leader hinted that the group had not expected such a ferocious response from Israel, as previous border incidents have usually played out in low-key fashion.

The more I think about it, the more I suspect that they wanted to create a little border scuffle as a diversion from Iran, and did not count on a strong reaction from an Israel who was feeling cornered and beseiged - and fed up with the fact that, with every concession, their enemies just move closer.

I'll sign it, but. The debate about "signing statments." Opinion in the NY Sun

No free lunch. Either permit drilling, or pay more for Arab and Venezuelan gas, and quit complaining. Wyoming protests new drilling on federal lands. 

Africa. The failure of the Doha Round means a dead end has been reached, for now. Publius. Africa needs agricultural markets, but the world doesn't want them to have them.

Biodiesel in Europe.

Bill Quick has some reasons to be, well, disappointed in  Bush. So does Lee.

Illegals get better deals with state colleges than Americans. No wonder they come. Can my kids do the same at the University of Guadalajara?

Homeowner kills intruder with .50 cal muzzle loader. How did he have time to load that thing?

Some fine Mary Chapin Carpenter lyrics at Villainous.

Case apologizes for AOL-Time Warner merger.

Good grief. Listen to these quotes re Rice's visit:

"The Americans want a new Middle East devoid of jihad, resistance, liberation, martyrdom, retaliation and dignity. These are all terms that disturb the Americans.

"They want to see a Middle East full of Arab presidents, monarchs and princes who serve as slaves for their American masters," Afaneh said.

    More in the Jerusalem Post

The girl who named Pluto. h/t, Norm

Neighborhoods begging for a Whole Foods. We have one, and I do not see what's so great about it.

Dead IRANIAN soliders being flown home from Lebanon. Big surprise there.

Why I love the Lebanese: they are party people. From those that I have known, I'd have to agree. Big Pharoah

The Bronco cheerleaders cheered the troops last week.

Europe doesn't want to talk about Eurabia. Why not? It is real. Augean

Why diplomacy isn't always constructive: Ahmadinejad on Sunday: "We are not fighting so that you will offer us something. We are fighting to eliminate you."  Who? Me? (from Atlas)

An Airbus whistle-blower in deep trouble in Austria. LAT

Judson Laipply does the Evolution of Dance. YouTube

Brits expected to welcome 45,000 criminals. That would be lovely. Tangled Web. (Isn't that what Botany Bay was for?) In other psychotic Brit news, Galloway glorifies Hezbollah. Gateway. I think they need to add Thorazine to their drinking water - or to their beer. This is not my homeland that I know and love.

A conversation with Milton and Rose Friedman. This is too good. Betsy

Maps of the IDF incursions into Lebanon. Belmont

Ben Stein: Israel is too restrained.

Repubs lag among Latinos. Why?

Bolton has proven himself better than advertised. Why oppose his nomination?

Much as I support the idea of a modernist secular Lebanon, perhaps that is simply not within the power of non-Islamists in Lebanon to deliver until military realities have altered the political realities. In short, if the other factions within Lebanon do not want Israel to completely demolish the national infrastructure that Hezbollah also uses, they need to realise that they, as well as Israel, need to declare war on Hezbollah. As long as ports, roads and airfields in Lebanon can be used by Hezbollah, neutrality is simply not an option for anyone.

From another point of view, The People's Cube offers some Progressive Solutions to the Middle East.

He was in DC for a while, then in
CT, then in Nashville, then in LA.
Now he is in Seattle, on the way to Montana. He is putting some miles on his Dyna Wide Glide.

Meanwhile, I need to keep up with the dylanology.

Cockroaches and Hezbollah. Shape of Days

Google is going gangbusters.  The guys are not going to relax.

Autism - chic. It is not fun, or chic, for the parents. Spiked

Thousands march in England against Israel. Mind you, this is in a country where you are not allowed to shoot burglars in your own house. Meanwhile Iran declares that it has taken control of the battle. Duh.

Different kinds of taxes. Interesting to consider, but, in the end, you are going to be taxed.  It's the price of civilization, but part of it is the price of imperfect democracy. I like flat tax.

Doubts about Israeli damage estimates. They will need to get in there with boots and tanks.

Zogby wants a political solution. Hello? Israel is preparing for a more effective solution.

Who are these idiots in Lebanon who want a free ride out, courtesy of the Marines? Right Wing Nation/  See Indepundit for a really cool evacuation ship.

Tough guy movies, at The Shelf

Should the UN be able to tax YOU? Gimme a break. Who are they, to me? I did not elect them. Brussels Journal

Env. Repub found us some good You-Tube rock videos here and here.

Department of euphemism: Partial-birth abortion now termed "women's health. Stop the ACLU

Smugness alert. Ex-Donk. Smugness is a very annoying trait.

There are 2000-8000 programming languages. Is this much diversity helpful? Am. Scientist

Women see color differently. Cognitive Daily

Big new nondenominational churches springing up in supposedly atheistic Manhattan. First Things

Gay intolerance: Gay Patriot complains that Leftist gays have no tolerance for gay conservatives.

Omar has a creepy post which makes me wonder whether anyone in the West understands these people. Iraq the Model

Neckties: Are they coming back, or going out? CSM

Clinton will campaign for Lieberman. As you may recall, Gore declined to support him: a bad idea, if he was your vice-presidential candidate.

According to Duke faculty, the lacrosse players are guilty anyway, as one prof is quoted in a piece at HNN:

"Regardless of the 'truth' established in whatever period of time about the incident at the house on N. Buchanan Blvd.," she mused, "the engine of outcry in this moment has been fueled by the difficult and mundane reality that pre-existed this incident." To Lubiano, the "members of the team are almost perfect offenders in the sense that [critical race theorist Kimberle] Crenshaw writes about," since they are "the exemplars of the upper end of the class hierarchy, the politically dominant race and ethnicity, the dominant gender, the dominant sexuality, and the dominant social group on campus."

It's always about "Whose truth?", like Pilate. How about The Truth? Yes - that same old cliched faculty-speak, which makes it clear that white males are always guilty. Further comments at Coyote

The dangerous fantasy of peaceful Arab intent: Seattle Times

Headlines you won't see: House Committee hears testimony debunking the hockey stick climate graph. Redstate

Who knew that you could buy an entire edition of a Law Review? Cramer. Shameful, stupid, whorish, embarassing.

The NYT spins it as a good thing that Lamont cannot raise $ in CT against Joe Lieberman. Nice try, NYT. What it obviously means is that he has minimal financial support in the state - but he is doing well in the polls.

We were going to comment on the VDH piece on the weariness with fighting Jihad, but Dinocrat beat us to it.

A cool resource: Middle East bloggers round-up, at Truth Laid Bear.

Toilet-training, Adorno, Barry Goldwater, and John Dean: Classic rambling blogging by Classical Values. I still believe there is a basic confusion existing out there: It's the Left and the Progressives who want to control our lives - not the Conservatives.  Or am I missing something?