Glenn Reynolds gets the Afterthought of the Day award for this post. In related news, Birmingham Baron Michael Jordan also played basketball in Chicago.

Not yet, but you had better keep an eye on me, she says:The safety of the president and the country was put at risk, and it may have been due in part to the blinders of political correctness and complacency. If it means now that the White House will be applying extra...

Tony Blair's government, its mendacity slipping the surly bonds of earth, embarks on a campaign against meteorological defeatism:It is goodbye to those miserable showers and isolated storms. Prolonged sunshine is expected under new “positive” forecast guidelines...

Pentagon Analyst Pleads Guilty to Passing U.S. State Secrets White House Spy Linked to Coup

Good news, Freepers:Facing recruiting shortages brought on by the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army has decided to accept a greater number of recruits who score near the bottom of military aptitude tests, the secretary of the Army said Monday. Coming off a...

Donald Boudreaux explains the libertarian antiwar position for all those who missed it the first thousand times.

Writes Andrew Sullivan:This blog broke the story of more Geneva Convention violations recently: the posting of mutilated and dead Iraqis photographed by U.S. soldiers on a website also devoted to porn. Now, there's an investigation. No other blog, to my knowledge,...

Joshua Frank writes:In a recent article in these pages, I criticized Cindy Sheehan for going soft on Hillary Clinton’s warmongering. Well, I was wrong. Sheehan hasn’t gone soft on Clinton; she's attacked the New York senator for her hollow position on the Iraq...

Glenn Reynolds, citing some less successful blogger:"The groups that will gather in Washington DC for a major anti-war protest this weekend have financial ties to major leftist fundraisers like George Soros and Theresa Heinz Kerry, and beyond them to communist...

Thought for the day, from Gene Healy:I love technology, really I do. Ipod. Internet. Modern dentistry. Not starving to death. We live in a world of ever-increasing technological miracles, and if we really appreciated it as much as we should, we'd walk around all day...