Precognitive Reporting?

Philip Lawler has been filing "postcards" from the American bishops' meeting in Dallas, at Bettnet. This bit from today is very interesting:

This morning I was seated for a while next to a wire-service correspondent. I happened to notice that he was preparing his final story on the meeting — writing an account of the final vote, several hours before that vote was scheduled to take place.

(Thanks Amy.)

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Fri. 06/14/02 09:28:17 PM
Categorized as Classic.

Is Jose Padilla a.ka. Abdullah al Muhajir a.k.a. John Doe # 2?

Some folks have been speculating for years on a Middle-East connection to the Oklahoma City bombing. JunkYardBlog Bryan Preston gives all the low-down — plus some very interesting new photographic evidence.

If Muhajir isn't JD2, the resemblance is downright spooky.

(Thanks Susanna.)

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Fri. 06/14/02 01:37:38 PM
Categorized as Classic.

It's Flag Day in the USA

Here's Defence of Fort McHenry, more familiarly known as "The Star-Spangled Banner". From the annotation:

The editorial introduction in Analectic Magazine is as follows ... "These lines have been already published in several of our newpapers; they may still, however, be new to many of our readers. Besides, we think their merit entitles them to preservation in some more permanent form than the columns of a daily paper. The annexed song was composed under the following circumstances. — A gentleman had left Baltimore, in a flag of truce for the purpose of getting released from the British fleet a friend of his who had been captured at Marlborough. He went as far as the mouth of the Patuxent, and was not permitted to return lest the intended attack on Baltimore should be disclosed. He was, therefore, brought up the bay to the mouth of the Patapsco, where the flag vessel was kept under the guns of a frigate, and he was compelled to witness the bombardment of Fort M'Henry, which the Admiral had boasted he would carry in a few hours, and that the city must fall. He watched the flag at the fort through the whole day with an anxiety that can be better felt than described, until the night prevented him from seeing it. In the night he watched the bomb-shells, and at early dawn his eye was again greeted by the proudly-waving flag of his country."

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Fri. 06/14/02 08:22:33 AM
Categorized as Classic.