Insert both feet. Do they really think that this is going to help their cause? I think that this event is going to guarantee a harsher immigration bill.

[Late morning update]

A flag burning. Of a Mexican flag. In Arizona.

Things are heating up.

I heard an interview with Morgan Spurlock on NPR when his crdocumentary on McDonald’s came out, and thought him a fool as a result. The basis of the movie (as I understand it, based on the interview–I haven’t actually seen it) was that fast food was bad for you. He apparently, and admittedly demonstrated this by ordering the worst possible things from the McDonalds menu for weeks on end, and foregoing exercise. I leave the illogic of his thesis, and means of proving it, to the reader.

Now we find out that he’s been giving insulting and obscene speeches to high-school students, including making fun of the special ed students. His “apology” is pathetic, as many of his commenters note.

[Via Joanne Jacobs, whose important new book on education you should purchase this week, to help make her birthday on Friday a happier one]

“Baghdad Jim” McDermott has been ordered by a federal court of appeals to finally, after a decade, pay up:

In a 2-1 opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that McDermott violated the rights of House Majority Leader John Boehner, who was heard on the 1996 call involving former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

The court ordered McDermott to pay Boehner more than $700,000 for leaking the taped conversation. The figure includes $60,000 in damages and more than $600,000 in legal costs.

It’s always nice to see a little justice come from all the Democrat dirty tricks of the nineties, even if much of the Clinton corruption and criminality went unhindered.

“Baghdad Jim” McDermott has been ordered by a federal court of appeals to finally, after a decade, pay up:

In a 2-1 opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that McDermott violated the rights of House Majority Leader John Boehner, who was heard on the 1996 call involving former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

The court ordered McDermott to pay Boehner more than $700,000 for leaking the taped conversation. The figure includes $60,000 in damages and more than $600,000 in legal costs.

It’s always nice to see a little justice come from all the Democrat dirty tricks of the nineties, even if much of the Clinton corruption and criminality went unhindered.

“Baghdad Jim” McDermott has been ordered by a federal court of appeals to finally, after a decade, pay up:

In a 2-1 opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that McDermott violated the rights of House Majority Leader John Boehner, who was heard on the 1996 call involving former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

The court ordered McDermott to pay Boehner more than $700,000 for leaking the taped conversation. The figure includes $60,000 in damages and more than $600,000 in legal costs.

It’s always nice to see a little justice come from all the Democrat dirty tricks of the nineties, even if much of the Clinton corruption and criminality went unhindered.

One wonders if such things are just coincidence, or copycat deaths. Two Reagan administration officials have died in as many days. First, Lyn Nofziger yesterday, and today (according to Fox News–no link yet) Cap Weinberger, one of the architects of the downfall of the Soviet Union. RIP in both cases.

The FEC has decided that campaign finance “reform” doesn’t apply to the Internet.

Bloggers would be entitled to the same exemption from the campaign finance law that newspapers and other traditional forms of media receive.

“There will be no second class citizens among members of the media,” Toner said.

I fearlessly predict that McCain and Feingold, and some “members of the media,” who do in fact think of the unannointed as “second-class citizens,” and don’t want to give up their monopoly on political speech, will be up in arms to get new legislation to end this “loophole.”

John Fund has found a more worthy student for a Yale scholarship than a former Taliban propaganda minister.

A lecture on democracy, at Columbia University, from Moammar “Looneytunes” Gaddafi:

He touted Libya’s political system as superior to “farcical” and “fake” parliamentary and representative democracies in the West.”

“There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet,” Gaddafi said to the conference at Columbia University in New York.

Libya’s Jamahiriyah system, under which Libyans can air their views at “people’s congresses,” is genuine democracy, said Gaddafi, who spoke through a translator and was dressed in purple robes and seated at a desk in front of a map of Africa.

I loved this:

Jon Alterman, director of the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, one of two U.S. moderators, said some of Gaddafi’s comments might have sounded jarring to Americans.

Gee, ya think? Talk about an ivory tower.

With his precious EU project in tatters, and unemployment rates in “old Europe” (i.e., Germany and France) at all-time highs, and students rioting because they won’t be guaranteed employment for life, Jacques Chirac decided to walk out of an economic conference of the EU because one of the French industrialists had the temerity to speak in the “language of business.” That is to say, English.