They’re having a “War on Terror” haiku contest over at Free Republic. There are some pretty good ones.

Predator above
Unseen, a dot in the sky
Al Qaeda flambe’

Some judges still willfully misconstrue the Second Amendment. In upholding a gun conviction, the appellate opinion read:

“In order to establish a violation under the Second Amendment, one must establish [that] he is part of a state militia,” Circuit Judge Robert H. Henry wrote on behalf of the unanimous three-judge panel.

I hope that this one is appealed.

There’s an article on prospects for life extension, and Boomer desires for it, in yesterday’s Orange County Register.

[Update a few minutes later]

And here’s a related story via Instantman–an interview with Ray Kurzweil.

The Supreme Court let an appeals court ruling stand, in which it ruled that Peter Kirsanow had to be allowed on the Civil Rights Commission.

Thus ends Mary Frances Berry’s latest attempted power grab.

Mark Steyn takes on idiot journalists who think that the election was about gender, and in the process makes an important point.

What is a ”women’s issue” anyway? To some, it might be the sacred constitutional right to avail oneself of a partial-birth abortion. But to others it might be the war on terror. After all, if there’s one single issue that distinguishes Western values from Islamofascism, it’s the treatment of women. Imagine being forbidden by law to go to school or leave the house unaccompanied. Imagine the state deciding what clothes you can wear. Imagine being prevented by law from feeling sunlight on your face. I’d say voting for people who liberate women from theocratic fascism is a women’s issue.

He also debunks the notion, apparently undying among some in the media, of the “Clinton charisma.”

My favorite line is the last one, though:

Remind me never to complain about ”liberal media bias” again. Right now, liberal media bias is conspiring to assist the Democrats to sleepwalk over the cliff.

Mark Steyn takes on idiot journalists who think that the election was about gender, and in the process makes an important point.

What is a ”women’s issue” anyway? To some, it might be the sacred constitutional right to avail oneself of a partial-birth abortion. But to others it might be the war on terror. After all, if there’s one single issue that distinguishes Western values from Islamofascism, it’s the treatment of women. Imagine being forbidden by law to go to school or leave the house unaccompanied. Imagine the state deciding what clothes you can wear. Imagine being prevented by law from feeling sunlight on your face. I’d say voting for people who liberate women from theocratic fascism is a women’s issue.

He also debunks the notion, apparently undying among some in the media, of the “Clinton charisma.”

My favorite line is the last one, though:

Remind me never to complain about ”liberal media bias” again. Right now, liberal media bias is conspiring to assist the Democrats to sleepwalk over the cliff.

Mark Steyn takes on idiot journalists who think that the election was about gender, and in the process makes an important point.

What is a ”women’s issue” anyway? To some, it might be the sacred constitutional right to avail oneself of a partial-birth abortion. But to others it might be the war on terror. After all, if there’s one single issue that distinguishes Western values from Islamofascism, it’s the treatment of women. Imagine being forbidden by law to go to school or leave the house unaccompanied. Imagine the state deciding what clothes you can wear. Imagine being prevented by law from feeling sunlight on your face. I’d say voting for people who liberate women from theocratic fascism is a women’s issue.

He also debunks the notion, apparently undying among some in the media, of the “Clinton charisma.”

My favorite line is the last one, though:

Remind me never to complain about ”liberal media bias” again. Right now, liberal media bias is conspiring to assist the Democrats to sleepwalk over the cliff.

What kind of morons would take this web site, about whale watching in Lake Michigan, seriously?

The whales and dolphins have become part of the scenery and culture of the lake, and their connection to its history is as ancient as the Navajo Indians who settled the shore centuries ago. Although there are stories of the whales causing many of the shipwrecks in Lake Michigan in the late 1800s and early 1900s, these have proven to be fables; the freshwater whale is a gentle creature, and any negative reputation is undeserved. Come see for yourself …

What kind of morons? The certified kind (hint: they’re writing educational materials for your kids).

[Update a few minutes later]

I should add, kudos to the Muskegon teacher, Deb Harris, who caught this error and forced the publication to issue a correction.

Confounding the social engineers, Californians continue, bizarrely, to want a single-family house and to drive to work alone.

Well, they obviously don’t know what’s best for them. I guess they’ll just have to be reeducated…

Watching this morning’s mini-debate on Meet The Press between Terrel and Landrieu, it occurred to me that Landrieu is now in much worse shape for the run-off than she was in the general election.

In the general election, she could make the same argument that Johnson did in South Dakota–that she’s a member of the majority party, and will therefore have more clout in representing Louisiana. Now that the Donkeys have lost the Senate, she can no longer make that argument, but Terrell can, if she’s smart.

She couldn’t get half the vote in the general election. I suspect that many who voted for her because she was a member of the Senate majority may now switch. It’s hard for me to see how she picks up any significant Republican vote this time around.