Cavuto Makes Breakfast I caught Neil Cavuto's Common Sense commentary yesterday — and I almost forgot to let you know: French Toast.

Presidential Messages This Week Today's Radio Address: .... As Saddam's regime of fear is brought to an end, the people of Iraq are revealing the true hopes they have always....

Why Were the Pundits So Wrong? The short answer is this: they never learn. Another good article from John Keegan in the London Telegraph the other day: .... Perhaps the....

Fettmann vs. Jordan Why CNN isn't just the Communist News Network anymore. Eric Fettmann vs. Eason Jordan.

Wall Street Journal Slams UN As it very well should. In an editorial at OpinionJournal yesterday: So now they want in. True, Kofi Annan did have the wit to refute....

Carl Prine With the 1st Marine Division And Betsy Hiel in the Middle East. Carl Prine is the reporter for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review who broke the possible-enriched-plutonium story the other....

Thanks to Rerum Novarum Hearty thanks to Shawn McElhinney for his kind notice today: Contrary to appearances in recent days (or weeks) I do have very strong views on the....

Depth & Breadth & Perspective That's what you get in the writings of Victor Davis Hanson, as in this column today at NRO: .... Indeed, it is hard not to....

Castro and America's Liberals Go figure. They despise George W. Bush. Bush = Hitler, dontchaknow. (Okay. They don't all despise him. I'm talking the left-wing bigmouths.) But the real murderous....

"Freedom's Bell & Iraq's Smoking Guns" Margaret calls my attention to this article by Mansoor Ijaz at NRO yesterday: .... Though there was never any doubt about the ultimate outcome....

"Free at Last" A fine column by Diana West today in The Washington Times: The most evocative news photo to come out of the liberation of Baghdad may be one....

VDH @ LAT From Victor Davis Hanson in yesterday's Los Angeles Times: .... There is a paradox in democratic warfare. We are ill at ease with arms, yet we wield....

Cakewalk? Cakewalk. Cakewalk! The other day, I asked What Happened to the War? A couple of weeks ago, the chattering classes started their caterwauling about a failed plan leading to....

Famous Face Belongs to Local Man So says the pop-up accompanying this article in today's Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Cpl. Michael Rega Jr., of Mt. Pleasant, is embraced by a thankful Iraqi....

Saddam’s Ankles The Tipping Point and the Balancing Act E. L. Core For a week or two after the start of the War Against Saddam Hussein, one heard frequent mention....

"Oh, You Poor People!" Another great cartoon today, by John Coles at the Herald Sun. (Thanks, Charles.)

"Giving Peace a Chance" A brilliant column by Christopher Hitchens at Slate today. (Thanks, Peter.)

"A Sad Day" A most worthy blog from The Mighty today. (If the archive link doesn't work, look on the main page for the earliest blog of Thursday, April 10,....

Photo Central The place to go today for scads of great photos, from the past week or so, is Just Your Average Catholic Guy.

Blog Stuff I have added a "Today in History" link at the conclusion of each day's blogs on the main page: it will open a new browser window to the....

Sic Semper Tyrannis Beautiful. Just beautiful. A wonderful cartoon today from Cox & Forkum, celebrating yesterday's historic event:

"Peacenik Warmongers" A fine, hard-hitting, spot-on essay by Alex Epstein of the Ayn Rand Institute, from last December, which just came to my attention yesterday: There is an increasingly vocal....

Saddam's Statue Margaret writes: Wasn't today magnificent? So moving to see the Iraqis learning that they don't have to fear Saddam and his crew anymore. One of those riveting scenes....

Why They Hate Us — the Europeans, That Is A cool essay by Janet Daley in The London Telegraph today: .... I am off to Washington at the end of....

A Tale of San Francisco and Baghdad A photographic essay. At Balloon Juice today.

Congressman vs. Columbia A very good article by Congressman J.D. Hayworth at TownHall today: .... As for academic freedom, Samuel Johnson said that, “Patriotism is the last refuge of a....

An Open Letter to Our Troops From Barbara J. Makuch. At OpinionJournal today: .... As I look upon the faces of our military today, these courageous men and women, brave,....

The Beeb's Treachery "Bizarro Broadcasting Company" Read about it here: .... I decided to try an experiment- kind of a private Reed Irvine science project. I have a friend in....

See What the Lying Communists Are Saying Even Now At International ANSWER: .... On Saturday, April 12, join the tens of thousands of people of conscience who will surround the....

Fallen Warriors: the Price We Have Paid to Get This Far Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine. Et lux perpetua luceat eis. Here is the roll, as of now, of American....

Feel-Good Real Reality TV! All the big TV networks are carrying live the jubilation in Baghdad, especially the attempt to bring down a bronze statue of the Butcher of Baghdad.....

Seen on the Streets of Baghdad FNC just broadcast a live shot of two Iraqi men walking down a street in Baghdad carrying the following sign: GO HOME HUMAN SHIELDS....

Patty Bonds Writes to CARM Vide. .... What I discovered is that everything I had been taught about the Catholic Church as a Baptist had been erroneous. Every objection that....

Apple Slicing and Dicing Looks like loads of fun with Jack Shafer at Slate, Monday. He gives us a good look at the mental machinations of somebody in the America-Loses-No-Matter-What....

A Digression? Or a Cheap Shot? Kevin Miller, for whom I have a lot of respect, really needs to come down off his high horse WRT Rod Dreher and NRO:....

Iraq Body Count David Nieporent makes some good observations at Jumping to Conclusions today. (If the archive link doesn't work, it was blogged 4/8/2003 03:50:50 PM.)

A Million Mogadishus? In a remarkable essay — well-written, thought-provoking, and hard-hitting — Terrence Moore asks why we have to let our universities be run and overrun by Marxoid America....

Ken Paulson Should Consider Himself Worthily Fisked By Christopher Johnson at Midwest Conservative Journal yesterday: .... To Ken Paulson of the First Amendment Center, it is an exercise of the....

An Important Note to Journalists A "Press Pass" is not a "Get Through War Safely" card. (See Susanna's Interesting, but unsurprising.)

"Hollywood Anti-war Set Needs Some New Lines" Many thanks to Margaret for notice of this great column by Richard Roeper in today's Chicago Sun-Times: .... Dear Celebrity Anti-War Activist: Over....

"Conservatives Are the Group In the Closet" Another blockbuster column by Patrick Gibbons in the Penn State Collegian: Who's hiding in the closet now? It sure is not the "oppressed....

What Happened to the War? Contrary to the claims of some, it has been pretty much a cakewalk. A couple of weeks ago, the chattering classes started their caterwauling about....

Saddam: He's Dead, He's Alive, He's Here, He's There, He's Everywhere As you may know, it's being widely reported that Saddam and sons may have been obliterated by four bunker-busting....

Kofi Annan and... Mel Brooks :) I really like this, from Jed Babbin at NRO today: .... Today, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan again proclaimed the necessity of U.N. control....

"Where Do They Get Young Men Like This?" Is an Urban Legend The tale blogged here now appears, alas, as an urban legend. The manner in which it was blogged....

"Whose 'Vietnam Syndrome'?" A fine analysis by Robert Bartley at OpinionJournal today: .... President Johnson was in many ways a tragic figure, a victim of history and circumstance. But as....

Anti-War Protests: They're Not Just Anti-American Anymore Vide.

War Roundup at Ad Orientem Including a great photo. Mark Sullivan has a great roundup of the latest good news from Iraq — including this adorable picture:

"Middle Ages Were Warmer Than Today, Say Scientists" Potentially a quite important scientific finding: Claims that man-made pollution is causing "unprecedented" global warming have been seriously undermined by new research....

"A Nation of Cowards" A thoughtful essay by Jeffrey R. Snyder from the Fall 1993 issue of The Public Interest: Our society has reached a pinnacle of self-expression and respect....

Thanks to Dylan For the notice of a poem of mine.

US Blogger Eviscerates UK Columnist You go, girl! :) Susanna Cornett shows today why the Evening Standard's Will Self is "a small, despicable little man". Enjoy!

"U.N. Go Home" Stephen Schwartz explains why the UN should not have a controlling interest in rebuilding Iraq: The war for Iraq's liberation began on March19. The fourth anniversary of....

Open Letter to Dixie Chicks from Texan Navy Lieutenant Margaret has forwarded the following e-mail. + + + + + An Open Letter to the Dixie Chicks Letter to a....

A Little Bouquet of April Poetry + + + + + Spring is the Period Express from God. Among the other seasons Himself abide, But during March and April None....

Fifth Sunday of Lent Sermons by Ven. John Henry Newman. At Newman Reader: Christ's Privations a Meditation for Christians Christ, the Son of God Made Man