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A Philadelphia Daily News reporter called me the other day for comment on perverted men who have nothing better to do than set up websites counting down the days until famous young girls, such as the Olsen twins, turn 18. I had somehow missed out on this phenomenon. (Wizbang was paying attention.)
Contemplating my own [...]

Excellent post by Junkyard Blog on the “Abu Ghraib Bait and Switch.” Go there now!

Hazardous material experts were called to U.N. headquarters on Monday after a suspicious powder was discovered on the 27th floor, according to Reuters.
Free Republic poster Martin Fierro observes: “Have Blix inspect it. He’ll have an answer for us in five years or so.”
Or maybe they should just ask these guys.

If you got the impression last week that Joe Biden has a son in the military on active duty in the Gulf, that’s exactly the impression he wanted to give. While hissing at Attorney General John Ashcroft last week about the so-called “torture memos” and the Geneva Convention, Sen. Biden made a grand stand of [...]

What on earth is the point of this?! And why will this worldwide waste of trees be a best-seller?

…that yesterday was World Naked Bike Ride Day?
Quipped an observer at a Seattle naked biker protest: “We saw a lot of swaying, but it wasn’t of minds.”

Interesting development this weekend in Ireland, which overwhelmingly passed a referendum to stop granting automatic citizenship to anybody born on the island. The vote, supported by 80 percent of the electorate, brings the country in line with the rest of the EU nations, which offer citizenship based either on the nationality of parents or on [...]

He’s baaack. Marion Barry is running for D.C. City Council. “Someone asked me, ‘Are you up to it?’ ” Barry told the crowd. “Damn right I’m up to it! With age comes wisdom. You know that, too, don’t you? With age comes wisdom.”
More of the wisdom of Marion Barry:
“I promise you a police car [...]

Lots of puzzled readers have asked if I am the same Michelle Malkin who posts to the alt.atheism newsgroup. No, she is the Bizarro Michelle Malkin. We were apparently both born in Philadelphia and the similarities end there. She is a left-wing, God-hating social worker who hates being confused with me as much as I [...]

Hollyweird darling Courtney Love surrendered to law enforcement authorities yesterday to face a felony charge of assault with a deadly weapon. The charge stems out of an incident on April 25 in which Love allegedly attacked a woman with a bottle and metal flashlight. She’s due to be arraigned on July 9, between shows in [...]

Just received Jeremy Rabkin’s The Case for Sovereignty: Why the World Should Welcome American Independence in the mail. This is essential reading. The main point of the the book, Rabkin writes, “is to remind readers that the United States has no reason to be defensive about retaining its independence.” Nor does the Bush administration have [...]

A reader notes:
I have my own Reagan moments and I really love the man. Even at his funeral he was still uniting people. He got the Clintons sleeping together again.

Read this. Then wipe away your tears and read my friend Mike Fumento’s important piece on defeating Alzheimer’s.

Ben Johnson at FrontPageMag raises troubling questions about the imam selected to represent Muslims at President Reagan’s funeral today. Excerpt:
Magid, who was born and educated in the Sudan, is the Director of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS). ADAMS has numerous close affiliations with the main targets of “Operation Green Quest,” “the largest U.S. [...]

Fight Islamofascism in Europe. Buy Brigitte Bardot’s book.

Jesse Issa Maali, a Palestinian-American millionaire businessman who has contributed generously to Palestinian charities, is upset because federal prosecutors are criminally prosecuting him for hiring illegal immigrants. Since laws against illegal immigration are rarely enforced, Maali’s lawyer argues that the prosecution of his client amounts to selective law enforcement. Similar complaints were voiced [...]

Quick, someone stop these federal law enforcement officials. They’re trying to - gasp - enforce the law.

From the “We’re Anti-War, Not Anti-Military, Honest!” files:
The Olympia (WA) City Council retreats for now from its proposed resolution to bar the USS Olympia, a nuclear sub, from docking in its namesake port.
Instead, the liberal narcissists on the council have now resolved that they “should provide the captain and crew of the USS Olympia [...]

Check out these disturbing stories from the New York Times and Wall Street Journal today on the continuing menace of Moammar Gadhafi. It appears Gadhafi was personally involved in organizing an alleged terrorist plot against the Saudi crown prince.
This is a mighty mess, what with shady American Muslim (and Saudi-subsidized!) activist Abdurahman Alamoudi [...]

Yes, I called Ted “Crispy Brown” Rall and his ilk “bottom feeders” on the O’Reilly Factor tonight. Sorry I insulted the fishies.

I’ll be leaving for D.C. later on today for President Reagan’s arrival. Will attend the public viewing this evening. From the Washington Post today: Anthony Ferrari, a Miami businessman, traveled up here for the funeral procession. “The man had a big impact on America. He really loved this country and it showed.”

New column: “My Ronald Reagan moment” is up. And the Washington Post revisits Lenny Skutnik and other everyday heroes honored by President Reagan.

Here’s the transcript of a local PBS town meeting on immigration I attended last week. It was the usual Can’t We All Get Along-Celebrate Diversity-Embrace Change emote-a-thon. Frank Senso was as fair as a PBS host can be on this issue. But the panel was about as kookily unbalanced as Courtney Love teetering in stiletto [...]

Thanks to the fabulous Stacy Tabb of Sekimori, we’re up and running with a new look and a blog. Still working on putting together a blogroll and other de rigeur blogstuff. The kids are asleep and I’ll be tooling around. Let me know what you think.