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Some 9/11 conspiracy theorist has sued the Durango (Colo.) Herald for covering-up "what really happened" that day. The nutjob is Judith Pfeif, and she wants to be compensated for all of her research. It is unclear what drugs contributed to her research and whether they are available without a prescription. Get a blog, Judith.

OpinionJournal.com's James Taranto absolutely nails Rep. John Murtha's latest pronouncement, so I'll quote it extensively. 'In Cold Blood' The Pentagon is investigating whether U.S. Marines committed war crimes in a November incident in which 15 Iraqi civilians were killed in Haditha, Iraq. NBC News reports that Rep. John Murtha, who voted for the war in […]

I read this story because the FARK headline read: "7-year-old boy will attend school as a girl, will be allowed to use the girls' bathrooms and changing facilities, and to wear girls PE clothes. He either has a gender identity disorder or is a friggin' genius" You'll have to forgive me for being dumbfounded at […]

If you're looking for a glimpse into what's going on in a copyeditor's head, put them in a training class and ask them to write a headline. I've been spending a lot of hours the past few months working on a new computer system at work, in addition to my regular duties. (That is why […]

National Review's Ramesh Ponnuru made an appearance on "The Daily Show" yesterday. You can get the video here. I'll say this for Jon Stewart, if he didn't read the book, at least he got a better briefing on it than did Alan Colmes.

Don Luskin points us to a David Cay Johnston article on how putting $50,000 in a Roth IRA in 2010 can turn into $41 million over Madeline's lifetime. Of course, Johnston isn't really excited about Maddie the multimillionare -- he's mad that the government isn't going to get to tax that money. That is, until […]

Mexico is threatening to file lawsuits in U.S. courts if the National Guard does any law enforcement-type duties. I'm sorry, but this is mad. I understand that the President can't nationalize the National Guard and then put them to work doing law enforcement duties domestically because of the Posse Comitatus Act. However, the Mexican government […]

The report on Ward "Little Eichmanns" Churchill is out and the investigative committee has found more than enough evidence that the University of Colorado professor is a plagiarist, fabricator and an all-around academic fraud. Findings The conclusions of the investigative committee that examined seven allegations of research misconduct against University of Colorado ethnic studies professor […]

I watched the president's speech last night and was moderately unimpressed. We'll see shortly if the government -- including the congress -- is really serious about staunching the flow of illegal immigrants. Like they say in Missouri, show me. I was happy to hear that the so-called practice of catch-and-release would be coming to an […]