…with Ramesh, on who should replace Gonzales (and yes, I think he should be replaced–I never thought he should have been appointed in the first place):

I just want it to be somebody the president has never met.

The biggest flaw of this president is selecting cronies and people he knows and trusts for key positions, rather than looking for those most qualified (Harriett Myers being the most prominent example). Unfortunately, it’s a failing of almost every president. (Anyone remember Craig Livingstone?)

Vaclav Klaus says that environmentalism is the new communism.

Of course, a lot of Europeans wouldn’t see anything wrong with that, since many of them have been pining for its return.

A New Jersey court has recognized the Second Amendment, and overturned a gun forfeiture law.

My disgust with Congress has found new depths. They’re buying votes for a troop withdrawal with pork.

[Update a few minutes later]

As Glenn’s emailer says, I guess we can now call them the coalition of the bribed.

[Update at noon eastern]

Porkbusters is on the case.

My disgust with Congress has found new depths. They’re buying votes for a troop withdrawal with pork.

[Update a few minutes later]

As Glenn’s emailer says, I guess we can now call them the coalition of the bribed.

[Update at noon eastern]

Porkbusters is on the case.

My disgust with Congress has found new depths. They’re buying votes for a troop withdrawal with pork.

[Update a few minutes later]

As Glenn’s emailer says, I guess we can now call them the coalition of the bribed.

[Update at noon eastern]

Porkbusters is on the case.

One third of Washingtonians are functionally illiterate.

DC always struck me as a canary in a coal mine for what the fate of the entire country would be if liberal Democrats got all their federalized social-programs hearts’ desires.

Mrs. Wilson seems to have trouble keeping her story straight.

Steve Gilbert has put together the time line that makes it look most likely that Joe Wilson did so, and when and why.

In a nutshell, up until no WMD were discovered in Iraq, Wilson didn’t say anything about the “sixteen words.” But once he saw the political opportunity, and had joined the Kerry campaign, he decided to try to pretend that he’d told the administration otherwise beforehand. And he used his wife’s connection to the CIA to enhance his credibility with his fellow Democrats. Particularly damning is the fact that Armitage spilled the beans to Woodward before Wilson’s op-ed piece (and thus before the White House would have had any reason to “punish” him). He most likely got the information from Democrats or other reporters, or from Wilson himself.

[Update in the evening]

Looking at the responses from commenters who often disagree with me, but are sane (and occasionally, but not usually, correct when they do) and the usual nutballs, I think that Steve Gilbert’s post might prove to be this year’s “Rathergate,” once it starts to bounce around the blogosphere. This seems to me like irrefutable evidence that the entire leftist myth about Plamegate (that the media has always eaten up like ice cream in a Houston August) is, and always was, completely bogus.

Steve Gilbert has put together the time line that makes it look most likely that Joe Wilson did so, and when and why.

In a nutshell, up until no WMD were discovered in Iraq, Wilson didn’t say anything about the “sixteen words.” But once he saw the political opportunity, and had joined the Kerry campaign, he decided to try to pretend that he’d told the administration otherwise beforehand. And he used his wife’s connection to the CIA to enhance his credibility with his fellow Democrats. Particularly damning is the fact that Armitage spilled the beans to Woodward before Wilson’s op-ed piece (and thus before the White House would have had any reason to “punish” him). He most likely got the information from Democrats or other reporters, or from Wilson himself.

[Update in the evening]

Looking at the responses from commenters who often disagree with me, but are sane (and occasionally, but not usually, correct when they do) and the usual nutballs, I think that Steve Gilbert’s post might prove to be this year’s “Rathergate,” once it starts to bounce around the blogosphere. This seems to me like irrefutable evidence that the entire leftist myth about Plamegate (that the media has always eaten up like ice cream in a Houston August) is, and always was, completely bogus.