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the less we seem to know. This sort of thing certainly puts that whole persistent vegetative state thing into question. (via Random Jottings) Perhaps the last word should go to Pat Flores, the mother of George Melendez, the 31-year-old coma patient who reassured his parents that he wasn't in pain after taking Ambien, as zolpidem […]

In recent months you've had Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad send a letter to President Bush encouraging him to convert to Islam, Fox News reporter Steve Centanni and camerman Olaf Wiig forced to convert to Islam at gunpoint and Al Qaeda terrorist Adam Gadahn on video "encouraging" Americans to convert to Islam "because today could be […]

Dixie Chick big mouth Natalie Maines calls President George W. Bush a "dumb F&%*" in a new documentary that will be incredibly popular in Canada and Europe, but not anywhere associated with "Dixie." I'll say it again: 99.4 percent of people who think President Bush is an idiot aren't nearly as smart as he is. […]

Bret Stephens has an excellent article in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal on the curious fact that liberals will defend their values against WASP conservatives, but not against Islamofascists. For whatever else distinguishes Islamism from liberalism, both are remarkably self-absorbed affairs, obsessed with maintaining the purity of their own values no matter what the cost. In […]

If you haven't read it yet, check out this piece by the Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan.

I'm not good at anniversaries. Or holidays for that matter. Five years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, I don't really want to spend my time looking backward. CNN is streaming that tragic day's coverage over the Internet in real-time, but I've little desire to watch it. I've got the TV tuner card […]

The New York Times resident Fig Tree, public editor Byron Calame, has a piece in today's paper on photographs used during the recent Hezbollah/Israeli conflict. I'm not that interested in the main subject of his column, but this bit at the end got to me. A final thought on morality. Some supporters of Israel, who […]

USA Today columnist Andrew Kantor continues to make journalists look bad over on his blog. Kantor has posted two updates (here and here) on his blog and closed the comments on his original post after racking up 101 comments -- most of which properly take him to task for what can only be described as […]

And I'd like to take this opportunity to note No. 4/5 Cal Poly SLO's victory over Weber State. After trouncing Division II foe Fort Lewis last week 44-0, Cal Poly followed up with another shutout with yesterday's 17-0 victory. That's right. Two weeks in and ZERO points allowed. Go Mustangs!

If you're a reader of Confederate Yankee or Little Green Footballs, you no doubt recall the Class B brouhaha over Editor & Publisher editor Greg Mitchell's defense of fake news. (See here and here.) Those articles got Confederate Yankee searching and he came up with a reason that Mitchell might be sympathetic to fake news […]