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I haven't seen too many movies yet this summer in the theaters, X-men 3 was about it, but I'll see the new "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" when it opens this weekend mainly for Keira Knightly. Having said that, someone seriously needs to feed the girl -- that can't be healthy.

For those of you who missed the fireworks, I've got pictures here for you. These were taken in Escondido's Grape Day Park earlier this evening. First, the Marine Corps Band San Diego played. Then, there were fireworks...after the jump (out of consideration for those of you on slower speed connections).

Today's evidence to support the headline is Michael Browing of the Palm Beach Post who writes this in a book review. Instead, for every Osama bin Laden and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi we can show a Bill O'Reilly, an Ann Coulter, a Rush Limbaugh, a Glenn Beck and a Sean Hannity. Idiocy parades unashamed in the […]

And be downright shocked by how out of touch they are. I watched today's "Meet the Press" and was amazed at the holier-than-thou attitude demonstrated by everyone on the panel with the exception of Bill Bennett. If I were a J-school student watching that, then the most encouraging thing about a career in journalism -- […]

That's right, it's the 34th annual banging of the tip jar. Tommorrow's the 4th of July, but today is the 3rd of July -- aka my birthday. If you feel so inclined, drop a nice birthday wish in the comments. Or, you could head over to Amazon.com and buy me a gift of some sort. […]

It seems that the New York Times, which divulged a classified program aimed at tracking terrorist financing a couple weeks ago, has decided that their initial "public's right to know" defense was inadequate and is falling back on their "everybody knew" defense. Patterico has helpful details here and here. I'd also like to note that […]

I've been doing some more blawg (that's a legal blog for those of you unfamiliar with all of the hip blog-terminology) reading on the Hamdan case and came across this piece over at Professor Bainbridge's place. Bainbridge appears to suggest that the Congress re-pass the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005, re-stripping the court of jurisdiction […]

After today's Supreme Court ruling in the Hamdan case, I've decided to update Article II, Section II of the U.S. Constitution to what current Supreme Court jurisprudence has changed it to. Article II. - The Executive Branch Section 2 - Presidential power The president only has the power the Supreme Court chooses to give him, […]

The Supreme Court ruled 5-3 today that al Qaeda is a signatory to the Geneva Conventions -- seriously. Terrorists who wear no uniform and purposefully target civilians are covered by the Geneva Conventions. What's troubling is that the Court did this in the face of the Detainee Treatment Act passed by the Congress in December. […]

A U.S. Marine recruiter who was "featured" in Michael Moore's "documentary" was killed in Iraq. The headline: 'Fahrenheit 9/11' Marine killed in Iraq Not included in this short wire story (a longer version is here) was an anecdote about Staff Sgt. Raymond J. Plouhar that brought a smile to my face. Raymond Plouhar said that […]