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http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/009699.php April 16, 2007 Prayers For WFB And The Anchoress Patricia Taylor Buckley, the beloved wife of conservative godfather William F Buckley and mother of novelist Christopher Buckley (Thank You For Smoking), has passed away this weekend. National Review's The Corner has a number of touching tributes in remembrance. Bob Leibowitz, who knew Mrs. Buckley for many years, writes his personal recollections of the "den mother of the conservative movement". Our prayers go to the two Mr. Buckleys and all of their family and friends.While you say your prayers for the Buckleys, spare a few for The Anchoress as...

You know, if she were to just *shut* *up* we'd find something else to write about. By Moe Lane Posted in Congress — Comments (4) / Email this page » / Leave a comment » Sooo... You gotta admit, she keeps plugging. Despite violating the Logan Act (Not that that would worry any American politician!), repudiating the Syrian Accountability Act [text here] (A scrap of paper! True, one with her signature on it, but! A scrap of paper!), putting extremely unwelcome words in the mouth of one of our most fervent allies (But that's a plus! For certain members of...

U.S counter-terrorism officials would neither confirm nor deny a report that fugitive Boston mobster Whitey Bulger has been spotted stirring up trouble in Iraq. Bulger, whose mug has graced the FBI’s Most Wanted list since his disappearance in 1994, is reportedly the kingpin of a mafia/terrorist cell known as the Winter Hill Jihad. U.S. intelligence sources say the lawless environment in the newly Democratic nation is well-suited to Bulger’s penchant for extortion and murder. But Bulger rarely appears in public, leaving most of the dirty work to his top henchman, Sayid "The Rifleman" al-Flemmi and "Cadillac Faruq" Salaami. To elude...

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"It's not easy being green. Just ask former Vice President Al Gore," the Fox News Channel's Terry Keenan writes at www.foxnews.com.? ????"While the newly anointed Oscar winner has made what Katie Couric called a 'triumphant return' to Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Gore was tripped up by a simple question from Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe. Late into the hearing, Inhofe showed Gore a clip from his film, 'An Inconvenient Truth.' The clip challenged the audience with this question: 'Are you ready to change the way you live?' ????"Simple enough. But Inhofe took this question a step further, by placing it right...

Columnist ill Catherine Seipp, longtime West Coast columnist for National Review Online (www.nationalreview.com), remained hospitalized yesterday. "She's sedated, with painkillers among other things," daughter Maia reported yesterday at her mother's blog (http://cathyseipp.journalspace.com). Mrs. Seipp was diagnosed in 2002 with inoperable lung cancer. "Lungs collapsed so right now we just want to make sure she has dignity and is not in pain," Maia wrote yesterday. "The doctor says she has a couple days left. ... I'm at her bedside now, holding her hand. I tell her she has 292 comments on the latest blog post ... but she just squeezes my...

Tuesday, March 13, 2007 Dentate gyrus yoga Study shows why exercise boosts brainpower, so if that's true, Tom McGuire and I will be brainier than ever: Tests on mice showed they grew new brain cells in a brain region called the dentate gyrus, a part of the hippocampus that is known to be affected in the age-related memory decline that begins around age 30 for most humans.Our dentate gyri must be gyrating. Yesterday I went to the 9:30 AM yoga class. I hadn't been to a yoga class in nearly ten years, since the time a nice Indian lady...

BY JAMES TARANTO Tuesday, November 28, 2006 3:24 p.m.   Responding to Rangel "The National Commander of The American Legion called on Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) to apologize for suggesting that American troops would not choose to fight in Iraq if they had other employment options," says a press release from the legion: "Our military is the most skilled, best-trained all-volunteer force on the planet," said National Commander Paul A. Morin. "Like that recently espoused by Sen. John Kerry, Congressman Rangel's view of our troops couldn't be further from the truth and is possibly skewed by his political opposition...

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On Tuesday we noted that Uwe Reinhardt, a professor of political economy at Princeton, had issued, in a Washington Post op-ed, a partial defense of John Kerry's most recent calumny against American servicemen. Although acknowledging that Kerry's remark was "uncouth," Reinhardt argued that the all-volunteer military is invidious because those with greater education and opportunities have less incentive to join up. What we didn't realize, because Reinhardt didn't mention it in this piece (though he has elsewhere), is that this matter is personal to Reinhardt. As Town Topics, a weekly Princeton newspaper, reported in August 2005, Prof. Reinhardt's son, Mark,...

We still have a puncher's chance of withholding the Senate; maybe inner-city St. Louis will break for Talent. Maybe Old Man Conrad will make a comeback. Additionally, the Allen camp is insisting that some numbers have been transposed by the networks and that Allen is actually winning. Regardless, let's be honest enough with ourselves to admit that this has been a dreadful night, regardless of the result of the unendurably execrable Allen-Webb campaign. Let's be sure to comport ourselves with dignity and class right now. No shrieks of foulplay, no whining. There's no crying in politics, at least not in...

Please read the link from Kim Priestap of Wizbang and then click on this video. It's a wonderful song for our troops http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYXaSAAMm0s&eurl=

Red-hot Healey scores vs. Deval in debate...finallyBy Kimberly Atkins and Dave WedgeThursday, November 2, 2006 - Updated: 02:35 AM EST Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey battled to pin down rival Deval Patrick on taxes, crime and immigration last night, demanding that he “tell the truth” as she saved her strongest debate performance for their final prime-time clash.     Throwing barbs and often ignoring the rigid rules limiting back-and-forth exchanges, Healey pointedly challenged Patrick’s criticism of her as a mere “criminologist” while touting his own prosecutorial experience.     “I’d like you to please name for us a case in which you were a criminal...

To say that "exit strategies" from Iraq have become the flavor of the month would be to exaggerate the situation to the point of absurdity. Exit strategies are not even the fall fashion. They are the regnant topic of conversation all across the political establishment and have been for some time. Even the Bush administration has some share in this discourse, having now abandoned the useless mantra of "staying the course" without quite defining what that "course" might be—or might have been. (A rule of thumb in politics is that any metaphor drawn from sporting activity is worse than useless,...

Last week on The O'Reilly Factor, the high-flying Fox News Channel's most popular show, ABC News political director Mark Halperin confessed to a left-wing bias in many of the old, establishment television and print media, to the absolute delight of liberal-baiting host Bill O'Reilly. "So you're admitting... maybe your own network tilts to the left?" a smiling O'Reilly asked, relishing the moment. "If I were a conservative," Halperin replied, "I understand why I would feel suspicious that I was not going to get a fair break at the end of an election. We've got to make sure we do better...

Dear [sl’s Mom], now that the situation here is slowly returning to normal, though never again like it was, I thought I would drop you a line and tell you a little of what has been going on here. You are, of course, aware of our horrible "October Surprise". You remember that hereabouts September and October are usually the most beautiful months of the year, and that the fine fall weather often extends way into November. Not this year. After a lovely spring and unbelievably gorgeous summer, everything seemed to fall off the planet the third week of August, and...

9/11 enemies are still hiding in plain sight September 10, 2006 BY MARK STEYN SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST I suppose my I'll-never-forget-where-I-was recollections are pretty typical: a half-curious pricking up of the ears when they cut into the morning show on the radio with breaking news about a plane hitting the World Trade Center -- it sounded like a twin-prop or Lear jet -- and then the slow realization when the second plane hit that something bigger was going on. My editor called from London a few seconds later, and I switched on the TV. But, even in the midst of unprecedented...

Captured document:: AP employee spied for Saddam     Document ISGQ-2005-00026108.pdf dated July 25 2000 is a report from an Iraqi Intelligence officer to different Iraqi Intelligence Directorates talking about information provided to them from a trusted source that works in the Associated Press (AP). The information is about the formation a newly formed UN weapons inspectors team called UNMOVIC. Translation of page 4 and 5 of ISGQ-2005-00026108.pdf Republic of Iraq The Presidency of the Republic The Intelligence Service Date: 25/7/2000 Number: 6146 Secret To: 5th / 4th / 13th Directorates We were informed from one of our sources...

TORONTO (AFP) - Bill Clinton hates it, but it is true: He will be 60 on Saturday, and he is often the oldest man in the room. The former baby-boomer-in-chief and 42nd US president admitted at a world AIDS conference here -- at which delegates serenaded him with "Happy Birthday" -- that his approaching milestone filled him with trepidation. "In just a few days, I will be 60 years old. I hate it, but it's true," the snowy-haired veteran of two tumultuous White House terms said.

Pepsico Inc. Chief Financial Officer Indra K. Nooyi will replace Steven Reinemund as chief executive, the Pepsi-Cola and snacks company said yesterday, making her the No. 2-ranked female CEO in the Fortune 500.     With her Oct. 1 appointment, Mrs. Nooyi takes her place in an elite group of 11 female CEOs running Fortune 500 companies. Patricia Woertz at agricultural processor Archer Daniels Midland Co. ranks first. ADM is ranked 56th in the Fortune 500, while Pepsico, the world's second-largest soft-drink company after Coca-Cola Co., is ranked 61st.     "I'm very excited and at the same time very humbled," she told analysts...