A week ago, Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit linked to a post by a Patri Friedman at Catallarchy, The Voice of Hedonism. Glenn capped his remarks by noting an “interesting discussion in the comments.”

War on Terror British Police Get PC Operational Instruction ? Joe Gandelman Police in a city in Great Britain have been ordered to show respect by taking their shoes off before raiding the homes Muslim terror suspects. Seven Years After...

A prevalent meme in our culture is that Hollywood as an industry is in trouble. I've been thinking about it and it's occured to me that this is wrong. It's predicated on the meme that Hollywood needs movie theaters. I...

Wonderful news . . . Susan Torres delivered her baby today and the tiny girl, Susan Anne Catherine Torres, is "doing well," according to an email Jason Torres sent to the Associated Press. (Full thread with background here.) The...

…or they wouldn’t be spending their time obsessing about the president’s exercise habits.
The DNC has issued a press release critical of President Bush for excercising too much, while cutting funding for education (via Drudge):
Th...

From Steve Sailor, 2004:Baseball?s first flagrantly obvious steroid abuser didn?t arrive until 1986, when the Oakland A?s Jose Canseco won Rookie of the Year. Canseco started out tall and slender in the minor leagues, but eventually bulked up to 240

President Bush has made a recess appointment of John Bolton to be U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and I couldn't be happier. The President gets the man he wants at the United Nations to try to restore some sort of credibility there, (a monumen...

An insightful interview with an extraordinarily candid British jihadi.

Some highlights:

Taseer: Has it always been this way for you?

Butt: Always? No. I grew up in a very open-minded family; there are only four of us. My parents never made u...

So I was so hopped up on tea, Mountain Dew, and the biggest piece of Key Lime Pie you have ever seen, that I was suffering a bit of insomnia Saturday night during our mini-vacation. What to do? What to do? How about counting sheep…nah did not wo...

Thus does the government begin to build a voluntary database of people unlikely to blow up an airplane, updated and cross-referenced at least as often as Experion exports junk mail lists.

Rick Moran called, and now the mad scientist is in.
First and foremost: though I am a card-carrying scientist, and mad, I am neither an epidemiologist, a specialist in infectious disease, nor an expert in virology. I’m not even a physician. T...

One day removed from his recess appointment as the United State's ambassador to the U.N., John Make Those UN Sissy's Start Bolton continues to stir up controversy. With his new promoter Don King by his side, Bolton held a press

Cross-posted at Outside the Beltway.
According to the Indianapolis Star, Sen. Evan Bayh, Democrat and son of former Democrat Senator and Presidential candidate Birch Bayh, has raised more money for his Political Action Committee (used by many candida...

Actually, I don’t either, but I don’t wrongfully disparage those who do.
In a July 25 New York Times editorial, liberal fantasist Paul Krugman took a number of cheap and, uh, how shall I put this, truth-challenged shots at the South, and ...