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First, what the heck are we doing having a debate in May ... of 2007? This super-early primaries and campaign schedule is simply insane. I'm sure the Washington press corps loves this, but most of America just doesn't care. Chrissy Matthews was pretty darn bad, though this will definitely be good practice for the Republicans […]

This story has been updated Bill Allison over at the Sunlight Foundation makes the case that California Sen. Dianne Feinstein is guilty only of the "appearance of" conflict of interest in her dealings on the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies sub-committee. (via Instapundit) The most charitable thing one can say about Byrne is […]

There is good news for those of you following the silliness that was a middle-schooler's idiotic move to toss a ham steak in the middle of a table of Somali students. The authorities have decided not to press hate crimes charges. And it only took two weeks to come to their senses -- that's above […]

Democrats insist that they want to fight al Qaeda terrorists ... in Afghanistan. Any suggestion that there might possibly be any al Qaeda types in Iraq is met with scorn and derision. Today's case in point is courtesy the guys over at Powerline who have video of Rep. Jack Murtha accusing Gen. David Petraeus of […]

And by "con" I mean conservative, as historian Mark Moyar has found out. Mark Moyar doesn't exactly fit the stereotype of a disappointed job seeker. He is an Eagle Scout who earned a summa cum laude degree from Harvard, graduating first in the history department before earning a doctorate at the University of Cambridge in […]

A couple of notes on the new design: A stylesheet switcher is still on my list of things to do. The delay is due to the utter complexity of the stylesheets on this template. Swapping calls for "white" (the text color) with "black" is relatively easy, but there's a lot of hexadecimal values that are […]

Courtesy of Patterico comes this story about a lawyer and his pants. The lawyer took his suit pants to a dry cleaners and they lost them. It happens. But then the lawyer sued -- and what a lawsuit it is. He wants $67 million. For one pair of pants. How does he come up with […]

The San Diego Union-Tribune won a Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for exposing Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham as a thoroughly corrupt politician. In fact, if there's a sure way of winning a Pulitzer, it's discovering and documenting corruption by a national politician. It appears as though a Pulitzer Prize may be waiting for any news organization […]

Washington State's "Baghdad Jim" McDermott is going to be paying Rep. John Boehner more than $700,000 after a federal appeals court struck down his First Amendment claim that he had the right to distribute to the media an illegally made recording of a cell phone call. Democrats have once again proved that they are against […]