He’s At It Again!

Remember the kid who cornered Kerry? He’s baa-aack.

Go, Michael

Michael Yon’s book has hit #9 on Amazon.

If “the American people” have lost interest in the war, why is this book an instant best-seller? The more copies get out there and read, the harder it will be for the Democrat nominee to pretend the war is lost.

Glass Half Full Department

This is, at least, one area in which a McCain presidency will not be a train wreck.

Baracky!

End of an Era

Ollie Johnston, the last of the “Nine Old Men”, has passed away. I’ll always count as one of the best days of my life when he and Frank Thomas came up to give us a talk about animation. One doesn’t meet genuine pioneers every day (although I’m privileged to work for one).

They will be missed, and fondly remembered.

Update:

Brad Bird’s tribute to Ollie Johnston is here.

A Call to Censure

Here’s a suggestion that we call our senators and ask them to censure the Nasty Little Man. Seems like a fine idea, especially if you agree with Jerry Pournelle:

[Nasty Little Man] has been meeting with Hamas leaders for years. Where is the Logan Act now that we need it?

There is, on the other hand, a more direct approach.

Big News from Italy

Michael Ledeen reports that the communists are gone. Really gone.

Tomorrow’s papers will pretend that this didn’t happen, and warn that Berlusconi’s allies in the Northern League are mercurial and dangerous, and that his majority isn’t as stable as it looks. But it is. And there’s an even more annoying feature to these elections, as seen by the chattering classes: Berlusconi is an outspoken, even passionate admirer of George W. Bush and the United States of America. Reminds one of the elections that brought Sarkozy to the Elysee, doesn’t it? Best to keep that quiet, or somebody might notice that hatred of America doesn’t seem to affect the voters in Italy, France or Germany.