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I get home tonight, flush the toilet and the lever inside the tank breaks. It somehow got corroded and just snapped. A quick jaunt over to Home Depot and $4.28 later and I've got it fixed. I need to visit Home Depot more often; the young lady working in the fixtures department...hubba, hubba.

Bush bypassed those annoying Democrat senators today and gave a recess appointment to U.N. Ambassador John Bolton. Democrats are, predictably, outraged by the move. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, criticized the recess appointment. "The abuse of power and the cloak of secrecy from the White House continues," Kennedy said in a statement. "It's bad enough […]

On "Fox News Sunday," Sen. Chris Dodd, when discussing the nomination of John Roberts to the Supreme Court, referred to the "privacy clause" in the Constitution. The printer must've made a mistake with my copy, because I can't seem to find that pesky clause anywhere.

You know, if you were a Kool-Aid drinker, then you'd think that this never happened before. You know, when Democrats controlled the Congress. That's why there's so few things named after Democrat Sen. Robert C. Byrd.

One month and five days after The New York Times ran an article allowing a lawyer to lodge an anonymous, ad hominem against director Peter Jackson, the Times finally acknowledges its faux pas. An article in Business Day on June 27 headed "Lawsuit of the Rings" described a court action by Peter Jackson, director of […]

Former President Jimmy Carter apologized yesterday for his failure to take strong action more than 25 years ago when Islamic terrorists overran the American embassy in Tehran, Iran, and held Americans hostage for more than a year. "My failure to take decisive action gave terrorists the impression that America was weak," Carter told the Baptist […]

Characterizing the America-hating cartoonist Ted Rall as an America-hater apparently gets his panties in a bundle. Unfortunately, Taranto's apparently too good a man to take Rall up on his offer -- so I'll do it for him. What do you say Teddy-boy America-hater? You (the America-hater) and me in a Toughman fight with the proceeds […]

I saw this Associated Press article on the wire earlier, and you can quickly guess what piqued my interest. Feinstein is a middle-of-the-road Democrat who sometimes breaks ranks with her party colleagues. Two years ago, she was one of six committee Democrats who voted in favor of Roberts for the appeals court. Feinstein is middle […]

Courtesy NRO's Kathryn Jean Lopez, we have a revealing excerpt from a press conference held yesterday by House Democrat leader Nancy Pelosi. The following exchange is in regard to the early morning passage of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). Q Can you elaborate, Madame Leader, on some of the offers that were made […]

I've been criticized by an elderly individual because I have failed to publish any pictures or accounts of my recent foray into hot and humid New England. I'm working on it, but here, to tide you over is a photograph of one individual who wasn't bothered by the recent record highs.