politburo diktat 2.0

Marine Corps Times reports:

A major from Baton Rouge, La., was awarded the Silver Star July 14 for gallantry in combat while serving as the commander of Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, in Iraq.
Then-Capt. Jason E. Smith led a rescue convoy through Fallujah on April 13, 2004, to reach Marines who were surrounded by […]

John Cole thinks the Dems should hire him a fact checker: “The chief spokesman for the ‘reality-based’ community at his best. Is he this stupid? Did he just get ‘caught up in the moment?’ Or is he simply lying?”
In reference to the Kelo decision, the infamous eminent domain case last month, Dean laid it […]

Dear Barbara: Try looking
Here’s the deal. The Kossacks and Lefties are claiming that the “Air America stole money from poor kids” story is fake. Leading the charge, Barbara O’Brien of Mahablog. At her own blog, at dKos, at the American Street, etc., her post has sprung up.
“Air America stole from poor children” … […]

Musharraf says Brits should have banned Islamist groups
Musharraf calls ‘goose and gander” on Tony Blair. While I have to admit that he has a point, I would be very surprised to learn that Osama bin Laden is hiding in the wild Lakes District near the border with Scotland.
BRITAIN is regarded as a safe haven by […]

Mamamontezz has the details.

Bad News - New York Times
Richard Posner, the hardest-working Federal Judge in the public-intellectual business (and co-author of the increasingly influential Becker-Posner blog) thinks out loud about the news media in Sunday’s New York Times (already available on the Web.)
Excerpt:
Being profit-driven, the media respond to the actual demands of their audience rather than to the […]

This July is the 60th anniversary of the publication, in The Atlantic, of Dr. Vannevar Bush’s hugely influential article, “As We May Think.”
As World War II was drawing to a close, Dr. Bush laid out an agenda for, and made some predictions about, the new disciplines of computing and information management that, in hindsight, look […]

WWII as an online game
just a sample:
Roosevelt: wtf! thats bullsh1t u fags im gunna kick ur asses
T0JO: not without ur harbors u wont! lol
Roosevelt: u little biotch ill get u
Hitler[AoE]: wtf
Hitler[AoE]: america hax, u had depression and now u got a huge fockin army
Hitler[AoE]: thats bullsh1t u hacker
Churchill: lol no more france for u hitler
Hitler[AoE]: […]

U.N. Mystery Man: Who Is Jean-Bernard Merimee and What’s His Oil-for-Food Tie?
by Claudia Rosett
NEW YORK - As investigations proliferate into the United Nations Oil-for-Food scandal, one of the more intriguing mysteries involves a former French diplomat with a direct link to the U.N.’s executive suite: Jean-Bernard Merimee.
The 68-year-old Merimee, one of several individuals now under […]

Criticizing Saleh’s regime is like shooting fish in a barrel, but few things irk me more than the targeting of kids. As previously discussed, the kidnapping and imprisonment of kids in Yemen is used both as a punishment against adult relatives and as a tactic of intimidation against reformers and critics.
In today’s mailbag from Yemen, […]

In the ever-widening circle of media scandals now embroiling the country, evil genius Karl Rove is believed to be behind Contestant-gate and Dance-gate. Forsaking his secret relationships with the dowdy Ms. Miller and the aloof Mrs. Wilson, “Roving Karl” apparently took up his confidential messaging with the distinctly hotter Paula Abdul and Kelly Monaco. Investigators […]

Mark at Be Lambic or Green is hosting the Skeptics’ Circle next week, and he’s looking for ’skeptical’ entries .
His instructions are here:
Orac has posted some commentary on what the Circle should be and where it should go (not to mention a call for new hosts).

Sadie means it, too. Never, never, never doubt this woman’s determination.

NASA grounds shuttle fleet
Two and a half years and $1 billion dollars later, NASA hasn’t fixed the danger from falling foam insulation. I certainly hope that it hasn’t damaged Discovery and that Commander Collins and her crew get home safely. But in any event, this is a complete disaster, much worse than an […]

Does the Plame/Rove affair: 1) need a name that will stick? and 2) seem awfully confusing, at times resembling a game of Clue?
In that spirit, I offer up …(forgive me Father, for I have sinned, in non-critically linking to Annoyingana Huffington) .. this link to the Huff Puff.
Briefly, Judith Miller did it. Pissed off at […]