Obama: Be afraid, Pakistan.
On Wednesday, Obama delivered a major anti-terrorism speech in which he essentially threatened the government of Pakistan that as president he would attack al Qaeda targets in the country with or without the permission of President Gen. Pervez Musharraf. "If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf will not act, we will," Obama said.
Good-hearted Americans fed up with the direction of the country under the direction of the despicable Bush administration are fleeing to Canada in droves! What a wonderful testament to conscience and a terrible indictment of imperialist warmongers! But, wait. What were those numbers, exactly?
In 2006, 10,942 Americans went to Canada, compared with 9,262 in 2005 and 5,828 in 2000, according to a survey by the Association for Canadian Studies.
I'm as much of a warmonger as the next guy, but I'm not sure of the point of this:
Governor Mitch Daniels made his second visit to northeast Indiana in two days, this time to announce the new name for State Road 1.
SR 1, which runs from more than 100 miles through eastern Indiana, is now named the Purple Heart Memorial Highway.
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I've been remiss lately in passing along brilliant studies. But here's a dandy:
After exhaustively compiling a list of the 237 reasons why people have sex, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin found that young men and women get intimate for mostly the same motivations.
It's more about lust in the body than a love connection in the heart.
Yes, lust leads to sex. You read it here first.
Remember how they tried to blast Gen. Noriega out of his compound by blaring loud rock music at him around the clock? This story is even better:
Transit workers are installing speakers this week to pump classical music from Seattle's KING-FM into the Tacoma Mall Transit Center. The tactic is designed to disperse young criminals who make drug deals at the bus stop or use public transportation to circulate between the mall and other trouble-prone places.
Whenever people point out that some war critics in Congress actually seem to want the U.S. to fail, they are accused of exaggeration. But James Taranto of The Wall Street Journal's Web site points to an example of a couple of legislators, and it's hard to interpret their remarks any other way. First, there is Kansas Rep. Nancy Boyda, who stepped out of a hearing room so she wouldn't have to hear testimony about progress in Iraq:
This year's winner in the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, which annually honors the worst opening sentence for a nonexistent novel, to honor the Victorian novelist Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton, whose 1830 novel "Paul Clfford" famously begins, "It was a dark and stormy Night":
We have to chase religion right out of the public square, especially schools. If a student decides to say a prayer at the commencement exercise or a teacher leaves a Bible on her desk, this is supposed to be some big breach of the separation of church and state that will doom the republic. Then, there are the Muslims:
You know where to come for the latest smoking news, don't you? First up, a guy with a serious habit:
New details tonight on the man who stopped to buy cigarettes while being pursued by the police.
The guy was allegedly on the run after a robbery, but he took the time to stop and the clerk who sold him the pack of cigarettes spoke to 3TV.
Further evidence that Los Angeles is a strange place. The Daily News recently dropped 10 cartoons and is now bringing back a few of them based on reader outrage:
I'm sorry we messed up your comics but grateful so many of you have let us know about it and told us what you want.
