Is it not time to awake from the deceitful dream of a golden age and to adopt as a practical maxim for the direction of our political conduct that we, as well as the other inhabitants of the globe, are yet remote from the happy empire of perfect wisdom and perfect virtue?
Funny how certain strings […]

Federal investigators last night arrested six men who were planning a heavily-armed armed attack against soldiers at Fort Dix as part of a jihad against America, according to two law enforcement sources. …The would-be attackers, ethnic Albanians who had been under surveillance by the FBI for months, practiced by shooting paintball guns and real weapons […]

My URL is blocked in China. Am I really that bad?
[Via D-Ring.]

Wonder how this will turn out:
Erbil, Iraq - More than a dozen potential business investors arrived here today via a direct flight from Vienna to see for themselves the vast opportunities available for international business.
The Kurdish Minister of Finance and Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Business Transformation and Director Task Force to Support Business and […]

UPDATE: I couldn’t upload the .pdf of the HB 1287 Floor Substitute, so I sent it over to Vince and he’s posted it in his post on the bill. 
Rep. Chisum, the author of HB 1287, the bill which will require schools statewide to offer elective courses on the Old and New Testaments, is likely to […]

[Via Eye on Williamson]
The San Antonio Express-News offers a quick guide to where important bills are this session of the Texas Legislature — what’s passed, what’s expected to pass, what’s up-in-the-air and what’s languishing.

The Times’ Week in Review had an interesting column yesterday about the foreign policy implications of public kisses. The column looks at the recent uproars over Richard Gere’s effusive kissing of Indian actress Shilpa Shetty (interestingly, there’s no word on the immediate evasive actions she attempted) and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s kissing of the hand […]

President Bush addressed the 2007 MilBlog Conference?

The results of the fourth survey conducted by the U.S. Army’s Mental Health Advisory Team (MHAT-IV) were released Friday (the day all bad news is released so it’ll make the little-read Saturday newspapers). They don’t paint a pretty portrait of current stress, depression and morale levels in Iraq — especially with the recent increase in […]

Oh, snap! Dunnam just called Craddick out on promising to print his rationales for overruling points of order in the Journal and not doing it. (Something I pointed out in the comments at BurkaBlog last week.) He cited two points of order — from 25 & 26 Apr — that were still lacking rationales in […]