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“Al-Qaida: Saudis Aided American Abduction.” This is news?
UPDATE: Ed at Captain’s Quarters has a different take:
It seems to me to be a classic misdirection tactic — get the security apparatus to waste time chasing its own tail while AQ does what it pleases during the confusion. Somewhat like the Nazi strategy of putting on American [...]

From Squaring the Boston Globe, we learn how a local historical society in Massachussetts has sanitized the Deerfield Massacre:
The year 2004 is the 300th anniversary of what less sensitive times commonly referred to as the “Deerfield Massacre”. This was a raid during the French and Indian War in which over 50 colonists were killed, and [...]

After I blogged about disclosure of pharmaceutical clinical trial results last week, several people wrote me pooh-poohing the problem, arguing that since all clinical trials are pre-registered with the FDA, there is no way pharmaceutical companies can conceal unfavorable results.
Today’s New York Times, however, suggests otherwise . According to the article,
The issue of The [...]

I hear that the Wall Street Journal will run a front-page investigative piece by Glenn Simpson tomorrow on The Muslim Brotherhood, a vast miliant Islamist group not well known in the U.S.
Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch wrote about the role of the Muslim Brotherhood as the fountainhead of Islamism in a recent piece for [...]

Standing up to evil? No. Advancing technology? No. Try baking bread bustiers.

The big Drudge headline this morning is a link to New York Times book reviewer Michiko Kakutani’s hibachi grilling of Bill Clinton’s tome.
This is off the subject of Clinton (insert cheers here), but if you haven’t read the classic McSweeney’s essay, “I am Michiko Kakutani,” you should. And if you just happened to be [...]

Happy Father’s Day to my Dad and my babies’ Daddy and all you all Daddies out there.
A few Father’s Day flashbacks for your reading pleasure…
“Male Stimulants’ Day?”
Dads, daughters, and PETA’s spoilsports
He was a good man

Bill Clinton on George W. Bush’s decision to invade Iraq, Washington Post, June 2004:
He both defends Bush for confronting a threat of which Clinton also spoke in dire terms while president, and minimizes the size and urgency of the problem posed by Iraq’s suspected weapons programs.
Bill Clinton on whether he would have supported the Persian [...]

Scenes from the Malkin household…
“Mommy, if you were a Care Bear, which Care Bear would you be?”
“Hmmm. Let me think about that.”
Answer.

Am scheduled to be on John Gibson’s show, The Big Story, at around 5:30pm tonight to talk about asylum policies and homeland security.

That’s the date Ted Kennedy pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of the crime at Chappaquiddick. The New York Post’s Eric Fettman hits one out of the park today in pointing out that the Democrats will honor Kennedy at their party convention during the 35th anniversary of Kennedy’s guilty plea. Fettman’s work is just one [...]

Sick of reading about sports scandals? Here’s the story of track star Tasha Danvers-Smith, who will not be competing in the Olympics for a very, very good reason.

The mommy who busted the bomber. Wow. (Via JewishWorldReview.)

A public confession: I have long had an intellectual crush on Mark Steyn. (My husband is okay with it–just as long as he gets to rave about the gorgeous Kim Serafin without me complaining.)
Anyway, I call the attention of all fellow Steyn lovers to this flaccid, attempted hit piece on Mr. Steyn. All you [...]

Or night, as it were.
If you haven’t already seen this takedown of the 9/11 Commission by Andrew McCarthy, it’s devastating.

Lots of good stuff on the 9/11 Commission, Iraq, and The Connection at Power Line.
Lawrence Auster comments on asylum and liberals…and damns me with faint praise.
In response to this provocative post from Hogs on Ice, John Hawkins offers interesting comments on the future of the blogosphere and the role of certain new entrants into the [...]

Socialism is alive and well right in my backyard. This article describes how militant central planners are trying to prevent a local hospital chain, Adventist Healthcare, from building a new emergency department in my town, Germantown, Maryland, which is a booming suburb of Washington DC. An excerpt:
Adventist HealthCare is seeking permission from the Maryland [...]

I will get to this execrable editorial from the Open Borders brigade at the Wall Street Journal editorial page in a (long) moment. But first, some inside background:
Before 2002, I had a fairly good relationship with the Journal’s editorial page–a wonderful thing for any young and aspiring conservative writer to have. On my home office [...]

Scenes from the Malkin household…
“Mommy, can I have a HoverDisc?”
“A what?”
“A HoverDisc.”
“Where do I get a HoverDisc?”
“On the innernet!”
Of course.

A 6-year-old girl, killed by blows delivered by the man who raised her. The man’s girlfriend, herself a victim of his abuse, testifying that the couple smoked cocaine while the child lay unconscious on a bathroom floor. It has been nearly 17 years since young Lisa Steinberg, illegally adopted by Joel Steinberg and his [...]

I am an American citizen of Somali [descent] who came to United States in 1989. I agree with your assessment of people coming to this country to do mischief, destroy properties to undermined our economy, and kill innocent lives and disrupt our way of live, under the banner of human rights and fear [...]

The family of fellow American Paul Johnson is asking for our prayers.
Pray hard for his soul, because the sad fact is that the Islamofascists have probably already killed him. Hope I’m wrong.
UPDATE: News of the beheading just broke. Paul Johnson, RIP. Will be interesting to see if we can verify when the savagery took place.

…and the day has just begun!
From a reader who contacted the New York Times ombudsman regarding Paul Krugman’s whoppers about the Justice Department’s prosecution of terrorists:
They blew me off. Said that was just his opinion, I need to show facts that prove him wrong, bunch of BS like that. Told me the [...]

Thanks also to John Derbyshire at NRO for the kind words. For some deliciously unkind words, read Derb’s column on The Cant of Our Age.

Hey, thanks to Instapundit for the new traffic! As for Nicole Kidman’s sick new movie stunt, three words: Jumped the shark.
More kidding about Kidman at Outside the Beltway.

My latest column is up.
Ashcroft’s remarks on the Abdi indictment.
More on the asylum racket from Juan Mann at VDARE. Wanna be an expert on the deportation abyss? Read my Center for Immigration Studies analysis and read more at deportaliens.com

Teh-RAY-zah Heinz Kerry tells CBS News: “I’m cheeky, I’m sexy, whatever. You know, I’ve got a lot of life inside.”
Flashback…

Just got off deadline. So Drudge reports that the loose-lipped scribes at Time Magazine have divulged Dick Cheney’s secret location.
Funny how the hysterical privocrats - the brilliant Manhattan Institute scholar Heather MacDonald’s term - shrug their shoulders at the casual disclosure of vital national security information. Who cares about the safety of the Vice President…the [...]

In today’s column, Paul Krugman of the New York Times argues that John Ashcroft is the worst attorney general in U.S. history. He states:
First, there’s the absence of any major successful prosecutions. The one set of convictions that seemed fairly significant � that of the “Detroit 3″ � appears to be collapsing over accusations [...]

A group of top medical journals is considering asking pharmaceutical companies to disclose clinical trials before they start. I’m no pharma-basher, but this is a terrific idea.
From Statistics 101 we know that if a product is as effective as a placebo, 1 in 20 trials will produce a statistically significant finding due to random [...]