Final words on Beauchamp (if not TNR)

The Beauchamp stories keep coming and coming, don’t they? I don’t want to spend a lot of time on them myself, but I do want to put a couple of final thoughts out there before moving on. Having linked that Michael Yon piece earlier, I now read the following from one of Jonah [...]

On second chances

Read, if you would, this excellent Michael Yon piece, with which I have but one quibble:
The story of General Petraeus getting accidentally shot in the chest is a case in point. One of his own soldiers had pulled the trigger. Normally, something very bad would have happened to that soldier and his commander. Instead [...]

Balls

I’ll say this for Hugh Hewitt: He’s not afraid of being dreadfully, hackishly wrong.
In yet another paean to Mitt Romney today, Hewitt scorns “MSMers” and “already decided Romney opponents” as if they were one and the same:
Ryan Lizza pens a long profile of Mitt Romney for The New Yorker. It is an unintentionally funny [...]

Stark apologizes, DU’ers are…displeased (UPDATE: Kossacks also less than pleased)

Breaking news:
Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.) apologized to the House Tuesday for controversial comments he made about the Iraq war, following an unsuccessful attempt by House Republican leaders to publicly censure the 18-term lawmaker.
“I want to apologize to my colleagues — many of whom I have offended — to the president and his family and to [...]

Plame: Tinfoil hat securely in place

Well, Valerie Plame’s book will soon leave bookstores in droves, into the waiting hands of liberals everywhere (and, of course, conservative pundits who will tear it to shreds). Plame is, in fact, liveblogging at Firedoglake today.
MSNBC jumps into the fray here:
But when her husband angered the Bush administration by criticizing the war in Iraq, [...]

Netroots power!!!

Greenwald:
I wrote about many of yesterday’s developments concerning telecom amnesty and warrantless surveillance in this morning’s post, but I want separately to highlight one critical fact. Citing various media reports, Jane Hamsher last night noted that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid — in violation of all Senate customs and rules — apparently intends, in essence, [...]

Spot on

Jon Henke, in a comment on QandO (no comment permalinks, just scroll down):
(a) the Right has a lot of reflexive dogma, litmus tests and tendencies that are growing less and less relevant in today’s political landscape and which will gradually force the Party toward a vocal, true-believer fringe and away from political reality, and….
(b) this [...]

Haditha: The narrative fails once again

McQ points to a WSJ article that does a good job of explaining how the anti-war left’s narrative has failed miserably in the Haditha affair:
At Haditha, did the Marines act reasonably and appropriately based on their training? They were in a hostile combat situation where deadly force was authorized against suspected triggermen for the IED, [...]

Teh torture

With Michael Mukasey’s confirmation hearings being the topic of the week, it seems the torture vs. enhanced interrogation techniques issue has been brought back to the blogosphere’s front burner (see also Sullivan since Wednesday). There was an interesting anecdote on Laura Ingraham’s show this morning, where Laura mentioned that Jim Warner, a “resident” of [...]

Good

Good for the farmers:
The feds call industrial hemp a controlled substance — the same as pot, heroin, LSD — but advocates say a sober analysis reveals a harmless, renewable cash crop with thousands of applications that are good for the environment.
Two North Dakota farmers are taking that argument to federal court, where a November 14 [...]