Peter Wood, on the ongoing political theatrics of the left:

My account of how New Anger came bubbling up in Chait

President Bush claims that he’s concerned about spending.

Yeah, right.

The freepers aren’t impressed, either:

Gawd, that’s almost like Jeffrey Dahlmer pushing for a vegetarian diet.

…Bush control spending? Start with that prescription drug extravaganza?

…The biggest government spender since LBJ ask for spending limits? LOL

I’d like to think he’s serious, but if so, it’s too bad that it took a Democrat congress for him to get religion.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out if he is. If he vetoes appropriations bills, as Bill Clinton did in 1994 (when he didn’t get enough spending from a Republican congress), who will get the blame in the media for “shutting down the government”? I think we know. As it was then, it will be the political party that starts with an “R.”

James McCormick has a long, but useful review of Mark Steyn’s book on demography and destiny. It seems like an important companion to The Anglosphere Challenge. Be sure to read the comments as well.

Eating alone, in Iraq. Guess those troops aren’t as dumb as the senator thinks they are.

[Update at 10 AM EST]

Here’s more. You do have to give him some credit for being a good sport, though:

Before taking off, supposedly the helicopter pilot jumped out of the front seat while the rotor was turning (an extremely rare event), approached the rear of the bird, and asked Senator Kerry to autograph a copy of the photograph below.

To his everlasting credit, Senator Kerry was a good sport and actually signed it!!!

[Update on January 5th, 2007]

This story seems to have been debunked.

Robert Fisk:

I picked up Jimmy Carter’s new book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid at San Francisco airport, and zipped through it in a day. It’s a good, strong read by the only American president approaching sainthood.

Emphasis mine. I’ll bet he typed this completely unironically. He also thinks that the Brookings Institution is a “right wing think tank.”

Robert Fisk:

I picked up Jimmy Carter’s new book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid at San Francisco airport, and zipped through it in a day. It’s a good, strong read by the only American president approaching sainthood.

Emphasis mine. I’ll bet he typed this completely unironically. He also thinks that the Brookings Institution is a “right wing think tank.”

Robert Fisk:

I picked up Jimmy Carter’s new book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid at San Francisco airport, and zipped through it in a day. It’s a good, strong read by the only American president approaching sainthood.

Emphasis mine. I’ll bet he typed this completely unironically. He also thinks that the Brookings Institution is a “right wing think tank.”

I’m hearing that Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD) has suffered a stroke. No word yet on how serious it is, and here’s hoping that it’s minimal, and that he recovers soon.

But if it’s serious, and he dies or has to step down for health reasons, Republican Governor Mike Rounds would almost certainly appoint a Republican in his place, giving control of the Senate back to them (or rather, if it happens before new Senators are sworn in in January, allowing them to retain control, since the new leadership hasn’t been elected yet).

[Evening Update]

Good news for the Senator and his family (and yes, incidentally, for the Dems)]

It appears that it wasn’t a stroke. Glad to hear it, Senator. Get well soon.

[Morning update]

Not so good news. Sounds like it was an aneurysm, or some other kind of brain hemmorhage. He just had surgery, which was reportedly successful. No word on the prognosis, but right now he’s in critical condition.

A four-year-old boy was suspended from school for sexual harassment–of a teacher’s aide:

A letter from La Vega school district administrators to the student’s parents said that the boy was involved in “inappropriate physical behavior interpreted as sexual contact and/or sexual harassment” after he hugged the woman and he “rubbed his face in the chest of (the) female employee” on Nov. 10.

Must be education majors.

With Pinochet now in the grave, Vladimir Dorta republishes his 2003 historical essay on Chile and the fantasies of the left.