Glenn Reynolds caused a firestorm yesterday, by writing:

IN THE MAIL: Col. Buzz Patterson’s War Crimes: The Left’s Campaign to Destroy Our Military and Lose the War on Terror.

I don’t think that the left wants to lose the war on terror, exactly — they just want Bush to lose the war on terror. I suspect, however, that Patterson’s theme is one that we’ll hear more in the future, especially if things go badly in Iraq.| MORE ›

For those interested in women – issues: two quite interesting articles appeared today at Turkish Daily News. The first article deals with women in the Ottoman Empire. The second with women in today’s Turkey.

From “Ottoman Women – betwixt and between reforms”:

Communities do not change quickly. Just a century ago people did not have televisions and Internet.| MORE ›

Andrew Sullivan has a post up about Ralph Emanuel (D), who has had it with Dick Cheney’s flip-flopping on what branch he belongs to. Emanuel’s message: if Cheney does not belong to the executive branch, “he should not receive its funds.” Emanuel elaborated: “As we say in Chicago, follow the money.”

Andrew comments:

Cheney is acting as if he is outside the constitution and above the law.| MORE ›

The Washington Post will in the coming days publish (what promises to be) a fascinating series about US Vice President Dick Cheney (h/t Joe Gandelman). Today, the WaPo published the first chapter of Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency: “Working in the Background.| MORE ›

Fred Thompson’s secret weapon:

IN the battle for the women’s vote, Fred Thompson has a secret weapon against Hillary Clinton – the legions of former girlfriends who still adore him and who want him to be president.

The Hollywood actor and former Tennessee senator racked up an impressive list of conquests during his swinging bachelor days in the 1990s, but he appears to have achieved the impossible and kept their friendship and respect.| MORE ›

A video at YouTube, about Bin Laden and the offensive in Iraq:
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“That’s the real trap of government expansion — it feeds on itself, and the money always runs short.”

- Ed Morrissey, Captain’s Quarters

A very interesting short contribution at the AEI website, written by Gary J. Schmitt. The title of the article: “To Be, or Not to Be . . . an Empire.” Read it in its entirety, here are the last three paragraphs:| MORE ›

Victor David Hanson takes on critics of the surge in his latest article for NRO:| MORE ›

Sounds like a great movie… and the review is even better:

Although we do meet the possible suspect Omar (Aly Khan), there are not any detailed scenes of Pearl with his kidnappers, no portrayals of their personalities or motivations, and we do not see the beheading and its video. That last is not just because of Winterbottom’s tact and taste, but because (I think) he wants to portray the way Pearl has almost disappeared into another dimension.| MORE ›