I am proud to be "Blogging for Bolton", and not at all for Lincoln Chaffee. I'm inclined to agree with Hugh on Chaffee.

The Plameout continues to be a source of good fun. In today's episode, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's prosecutorial conduct is examined by one of his peers who is in a very good position to know whereof she speaks.

What a Load of Armitage! What did Patrick Fitzgerald know, and when did he know it? By Victoria Toensing in Opinionjournal.com

Where is Margaret Thatcher when you need her? Iain Murray discusses White House wobbling on global warming in his post at National Review Online

Update: here's a link to a post by Rich Galen that Iain Murray refers to in The Corner at National Review Online.

Pajamas Media collects a series of posts to pay homage to a woman who stood strong in the face of tyranny throughout her life IN MEMORIAM: ORIANA FALLACI, 1930 - 2006

The Miami Herald reports, "Hulk Hogan's car catches fire on Bay Harbor Islands." Another comeback is sure to be in the works after this.

Betsy's Page's post entitled Giving a "political" speech in wartime excerpts a column by Tony Blankley in the Washington Times that is well worth reading.

Betsy's introduction to the column:

"The Democrats have gotten all up on their high horses about Bush giving a speech on Monday, the anniversary of 9/11, in which he defended the war in Iraq and tried to rally support for that war. Horrors! Apparently, to the Democrats, talking about the war is a political speech. In their minds, it is Bush's war and thus it is a political war. And defending his efforts in the war on terrorism - that's political too. And shouldn't be said. Presidents shouldn't try to rally support when the country is at war if the other party opposes the war. The rules keep changing. Remember when they said that the President wasn't explaining to the American people why we were fighting?"

Google Video has a recording of the PBS debate between Loose Change Vs. Popular Mechanics. I'd say that it should be called on account of incredible ignorance, misreporting, omission of evidence and just silliness.

"As a model of directness, the idea of creating enough chaos to collapse the current world system has few peers."

A must read post at The Belmont Club introduces Lawrence Wright's article in the New Yorker.

From post at The Belmont Club, "The view looking out from within al-Qaeda is completely different from the standard narrative provided by the newspapers. We learn about a man who converted Bin Laden to Salafism and who later accused him of leading the Jihad to catastrophe -- a man who is in US custody. Wright describes the pivotal role of Afghanistan in creating a place for Jihad to train and formulate its plans, and why September 11 is regarded by some Islamic radicals as a complete mistake."

Ann Althouse proves that a picture is worth a thousand words.

What a whuppin' the socialists are taking today on the topic of state control of free markets in an excerpt from an upcoming article by Richard Epstein that will be published in the Hoover Digest. Please read The Corner on National Review Online: Free Markets Under Siege. Epstein and Hitchens in the same day!

The wonderful Christopher Hitchens ties a hapless Australian Broadcasting Corporation interviewer in the tatters of his formulaic arguments from the Michael Moore debating club in this post from The Belmont Club: How not to hunt a tiger

More bad news for those who suffer from BDS in Yahoo! News Katrina's Floodwaters Far Less Toxic Than Feared

Thoughts on the politicization of scientific research--that is, scientific research that is funded by the federal government.

Prometheus: The Promotion of Scientific Findings with Political Implications

The fifth anniversary of 9/11. I continue to feel emotions that change in a moment every year on this date after 2001: great sadness after watching amateur video that expresses the same raw emotion and confusion that we all felt at first. I felt anger after watching the second episode of "The Path to 9/11" on ABC. Anger at the terrorists. Frustration with a government that refused to take the terrorists seriously until they committed an act that could not be ignored. Pride in re-reading a story of the bravery and selfless devotion to duty, honor, and country exhibited daily by our mighty warriors in the Special Forces. And resolve after listening to our President address the nation tonight.






















Long may she wave. America will never submit to Islamofascism.

Incredible! Could the father of Islamism really be a sexually repressed, introverted, self-hating, bitter ignoramus? The Observer Review The age of horrorism (part one)

I love Australia. Even their scandals are fun. AP: Striptease Heats Up Global Warming Event.

We lost a very good man today. Steve Irwin, the famed Crocodile Hunter of TV and of at least one movie, died while filming a documentary.

Some of the reactions have criticized him for taking unnecessary risks, or for his perceived politics, or for an episode where he apparently put one of his children in dangerous proximity to a crocodile, or for other equally silly reasons.

I prefer to remember Steve as an incredibly enthusiastic person. I had the privilege to travel to Australia and New Zealand several times in the 1980s while I worked for a data communications start-up. Australia is full of enthusiastic people; people who love life and are eager to embrace those who are friendly and return their embrace.

Queensland has lost a great ambassador. The world has lost a great conservationist. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family, his friends, and all who loved him and whom he loved, no matter the species.

CNN.com: State funeral possible for Irwin

The SciGuy exclaims, "Wow ... IPCC report leaked ... most interesting."

For me, not so much. More like, "Grudging acknowledgment in leaked IPCC draft report that global warming disaster scenarios belong in movies, not in real life. For the rest of us, break out the tube tops and sun tan lotion, and get ready for longer growing seasons, better and cheaper food, and more beach music."

Counterterrorism Blog: The "Azzam" Threat: A prelude to Future Jihad in America

If wanna-be Jihadist Adam Gahdan thinks that he'll convert Americans to Islam by threatening beloved figures like Billy Graham (in one of the groups Gahdan singles out for destruction), he's got another thing coming. Try playing that tune down South, beard-boy. Counterterrorism Blog: The "Azzam" Threat: A prelude to Future Jihad in America

Kenneth Anderson writes in the New York Times Magazine, "It's Congress's War, Too".

We deserve a Congress that would seriously take up the issues that Kenneth raises without demagoging them.