Todd Seavey has the effrontery to thoughtfully review Jonah Goldberg’s book:

I always thought H.G. Wells

On the Constitution Party ticket?

The story isn’t well sourced, but it certainly wouldn’t shock me if true. Despite the fervent hopes of his followers, his chances of getting the Republican nomination are nil, and I can easily imagine them continuing to support him as an independent or another party.

The conventional wisdom would be that this would be bad news for Republicans, but I disagree. When you look at where most of his support is coming from (mostly anti-war), and the fact that none of the Democrat candidates will surrender as fast as the anti-war left wants them to (plus all his support from Soros & Co.) I think that he’d pull more from the Democrats than from the Republicans.

But that depends a lot on who the Republican nominee is. In the unlikely event that it were Huckabee, I can actually imagine a four-way race with another independent run by someone, so that there would be at least one candidate for those who want to actually win the war. And I think that it would fracture both major parties along libertarian/collectivist lines (something that is long overdue).

Fred Thompson is doing a fundraiser.

Roger Kimball, on political correctness, good intentions, and moral accountability:

In The Social Contract, Rousseau warned that

From Fred Thompson. Compare it to Huck and Hill’s.

[Evening update]

With Fred Thompson in Iowa.

Per comments, I’ll be amazed to see Jim Harris’ panicked response to this.

There’s a new blog devoted to freeing Mark Steyn. That’s in addition to the post that created the button on the left, which I wrote about here. I think that I’ll redirect that button to this post, and use it for updates from now on.

I’ve added a new button over to the left on my sidebar, supporting Mark Steyn and Macleans against the Canadian Human RightsWrongs Commission. Here’s the latest in the saga.

If someone sets up a legal fund to support a counter suit by Mark, I’ll link the button to it, instead of to the web site that came up with it, as it is now.

Lileks says that Time Magazine is too easily impressed:

…gosh, convincing the Russian general population to accept illiberal strong-man autocracy; that’s hard work. What do you do with your afternoon?

I don’t know if Petraeus should have been the pick, but he should have been ranked above Vlad. I was kind of disappointed that they didn’t pick me again. Not that it did much for my hits this year.

A few days ago, Bill Whittle responded to a mindless minion of the BushitlerCheneyChimpyMcHalliburton crowd in my comments section. Some of you may have seen it at the time. He took it and made it into a blog post, with comments.

…the 2008 edition of Al Gore?

There are a lot of similarities.