If you don’t read anything else this weekend, please do read this piece by Christopher Hitchens where he talks about the life of Army 2nd Lt. Mark Daily, who was killed by an IED explosion in Mosul in January.
The “pro-peace” (uh huh) movement strikes again:
Even though he pledged back at the end of August that he would resign from the Senate, effective 9/30, and in spite of a judge’s ruling yesterday that Craig will not be allowed to withdraw his guilty plea to the charge of disorderly conduct, the Idaho Senator is now refusing to resign.
Numerous readers have emailed me (and GWR posted about it in Wednesday’s open thread) the story about Senator Barack Obama’s refusal to wear the US flag pin, as a way of making a political statement about his disagreement with the Bush administration’s policies. Via ABC News:
Paul Detrick has a post up today detailing CNN meterologist Rob Mariciano’s critical remarks of the Goracle’s crockumentary “An Inconvenient Truth”:
