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Belmont Club
All For One & One For All

Easy-on Eason!
Howie Kurtz's Conflict Is Showing
By Mickey Kaus

Shedding light in dark places
by Cal Thomas
Conservative Christians would be wiser to improve our culture rather than criticize it.

CNN slimes our troops
by Michelle Malkin
One of the most common complaints I hear from our troops is that the media rarely report on the military's good deeds.

Defining monstrosity down
by Jonah Goldberg
John and Linda Dollar of Beverly Hills, Fla., are monsters. Or, to use the legalese required in these circumstances, they're monsters if they did what they've been accused of.

The Marines: A few sensitive men
by Kathleen Parker
In the 1998 movie 'Soldier,' Sgt. Todd is talking to the woman who nursed him back to health when she asks: 'What are you going to do?'

It's the Democratic party, they can cry if they want to
by Ben Shapiro
Somebody call the waaaambulance. Realizing that they’re losing the political battle, the Democrats have fallen back on their last resort: weeping.

It's a dangerous world
by Tony Blankley
President Bush's State of the Union Address last Wednesday included the most audacious presidential foreign policy utterances since President Kennedy's demand that the Soviet Union remove its atomic weapons from Cuba in 1963.

NY Times
Lesson of Clinton Fund-Raiser: Double-Check That Donor List

Secure the border
by Terence Jeffrey
If the Bush budget is approved as requested, we will spend far more money next year on new machines aimed at detecting radiation at our border than we will spend on additional Border Patrol agents to intercept the terrorists who might sneak across the border with the purpose of carrying out a radiological attack.

NY Times
For the Worst of Us, the Diagnosis May Be 'Evil'

NY Sun Editorial
The Rice Doctrine

Filtering out the best
by Thomas Sowell
The Senate is filtering out the best candidates for public service with unjust attacks during confirmation.

Ice-breaking opportunity
by Tom Goeller
Germans are reluctantly coming to the conclusion they may have been wrong to oppose the Iraq war.

Rummy's Got a Secret
He's hiding up to $40 billion in defense spending. Let's find it.
By Fred Kaplan

One Down, Two to Go
Democracy has come to Iraq. Is there hope for North Korea?
by Claudia Rosette

Blogger's 'Crime' Against the Islamic State
By Farouz Farzami

W. Post
Concerns From the Right
Some conservatives question the scope of Bush's agenda for his second term.

Review-Journal
Lecture causes dispute
UNLV accused of limiting free speech

NY Sun
Push Is On for Academic Bill of Rights To Protect Against 'Political Pollution'

To Withdraw Now Would Be Folly
The price of liberty in Iraq? Ten years' vigilance.
by Niall Ferguson

"Kill a Jew--Go to Heaven"
Natan Sharansky draws attention to a new report by the Palestinan Media Watch.
by Rachel DiCarlo

Go-Go Iraq
Democracy works. By Derek Reveron

Safe?
New Tricks for Finding Terrorists

Hold the Phone, VOIP Isn't Safe
Spam, spim, spit ... unsolicited messages just keep coming and mutating. Voice over internet is the next target, and providers are banding together to fight it.
By Elizabeth Biddlecombe.

Dairy Cows Breathe Easier
A long-awaited study attempts to clear the air about just how much dairy cows contribute to air pollution. But the California Air Resources Board says more research is needed.
By Amit Asaravala.

AP
Vatican: Marriage Annulment Requests Soar
The Vatican said Tuesday requests for marriage annulments have been soaring, with one cardinal lamenting that some Roman Catholics view them as a kind of church-sanctioned equivalent of divorce.

They March for Themselves
by Michael J. Totten
A former war protester explains why disgruntled Bush-haters have every right go to door to door in their neighborhoods...

Anti-Powerfulism
by Uriah Kriegel
An emerging pattern not only in the Democratic Party but in the worldwide political movement of the Left.

Tipping the Balance In Favor of Terrorists
by Michael M. Rosen
Should foreign terrorists captured abroad be entitled to the suite of constitutional rights available to criminal defendants in U.S. courts? The author examines some recent important court cases.

Little Doubt Canseco Played In Juiced Era
By Buster Olney

Speak Up Big Mac
By Ray Ratto

McGwire too hot to touch
Ray Ratto

Jose's Juicy Secrets
By David Schoenfield

Contra Costa Times
Steinbach shoots back at ex-A's mate Canseco

AP
Ivan Rodriguez denies using steroids

Canseco right on mark about McGwire
by Mike Bianchi
Let's stop playing dumb, shall we? Let's stop treating Jose Canseco like some sort scum for actually having the gall to stick a syringe not only in McGwire's buttocks but in McGwire's myth. Let's just come out and admit what we've suspected: McGwire's home run total, just like Barry Bonds' home run total, is as artificial as the nose on Michael Jackson's face.

Maggs costly, but necessary
by Peter Gammons

Reuters
Well, at Least He Won't Be Fathering More Fans...

USA Today
Podcasting: It's all over the dial
From a chatty, quirky couple to an obsessive movie buff, do-it-yourself Web radio is as diverse as the USA itself
Radio to the MP3 degree: Podcasting
Downloadable broadcasts catch fire
Podcasting basics


An artist called Tomi has created a limited run of silhouette iPod people from little Lego figures.

Limited to a run of 300 units, Tomi's PodBrix Minifigs cost $17. Each is mounted on a monochrome background, numbered and signed on the back.