No, it’s legalized prostitution.

Like the various ways to collect interest by other names to get around the Islamic injunction against usury, this is another amazing example of the contortions of language that people will go through to remain consistent with unrealistic religious beliefs.

There’s further evidence that Senor Padilla is John Doe #2. Which means further evidence that there were Middle Eastern connections to the OKC bombing. And a coverup by a federal government more obsessed with demonizing “right-wing extremists” than in getting to the truth.

For info on the significance of this information, check out this site (which seems to be a blog dedicated to this topic), and this one.

Check out this new search engine with graphical results. It’s hypercool.

Next time you hear a leftist whine about blacklisting, show him this.

A second-year medical resident lost his job at U of Wisconsin, and then had a new one rescinded, from Michigan State, because he had the temerity to question Islamic fundamentalists giving lectures on Islam in what was supposed to be an orientation for medical residents.

This one promises to be as entertaining as the “Australian Acadmics” petition.

It’s one to sign if you think that Al Gore is really your president.

It’s got about 900 right now. I’m not sure which are funnier, the ignorant rants from the supporters (“…in my heart I just know he won…”), or the flames that start in the mid 800s (not coincidentally, about the time someone notified Free Republic about it).

There’s a new movie out starring Bruce Willis and Tom Daschle.

There’s a new movie out starring Bruce Willis and Tom Daschle.

There’s a new movie out starring Bruce Willis and Tom Daschle.

The problem with Fox was a Denial of Service attack.

I wonder if they were targeted for political reasons? Could it possibly have anything to do with this story?

All I know is that hardly anyone saw my column yesterday. And it’s still down, for the most part.

Mickey Kaus objects to the term Homeland Security. So do I, for all the same reasons. It’s been creeping me out ever since we first created the position (and not just because we put Tom Ridge in charge of it…).

As a solution, he has another suggestion, which is interesting, but has a few loose ends. He wants to call it instead the Department of Defense, and to rename the Department that currently holds that name back to the Department of War.

It would be kind of confusing, especially after all these years, to move a name from one department to another. I’m not sure there’s any precedent for it.

But it also begs all kinds of questions. Would missile defense, which is currently being managed by the Department of Defense, which would become the Department of War, move over to the new Department of Defense? If so, what else would? Would it depend on the nature of the hardware, or where it was deployed? For example, would an anti-aircraft battery based in New York be part of the DoD, but one based in Kabul be managed by the DoW?