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This week, let us give thanks for “Countdown.” In particular, let us give thanks that it’s a short week. (more)

‘Waity Katie’ has waited long enough. (more)

Quarterbacks: (more)

Today’s release of Wenlock and Mandeville, the latest additions to the Olympic mascot family, caused many to do a double take. (more)

As Israel marked its 62nd anniversary, a familiar rift was occurring with a U.S. administration over the settlements issue. This time, the matter involved Jerusalem, specifically Israel’s expansion of existing settlement in the Old City. (more)

Happy Earth Day. (more)

Washington collects alliances like people collect Facebook “friends.” As the Falklands Islands dispute heats up again, the U.S. finds itself being pressed to take sides. It turns out that collecting allies can be expensive. (more)

Inarguably, there are parallels between Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley—the two highest-profile pop star deaths of the post-Vietnam era. At the times of their respective deaths, both men’s careers were in terminal decline. Elvis hadn’t had a great single since “In The Ghetto” almost a decade before. And Michael Jackson, the self-proclaimed and trademarked King of Pop? Dan Quayle was a presidential prospect the last time his music was truly relevant. (more)

The bar’s “priesthood” has been offended—and now they are on the attack. A group of 19 lawyers, including conservatives like former Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr and Bush administration lawyers Bradford Berenson and Larry Thompson, are denouncing Liz Cheney’s group “Keep America Safe” for asking questions about Department of Justice lawyers who once defended suspected terrorists. “We consider these attacks both unjust to the individuals in question and destructive of any attempt to build lasting mechanisms for counter-terrorism adjudications,” they wrote in a statement released earlier this week. (more)

Why was I alive? (more)

From “Courting Disaster:” (more)

How do you determine the sex of a house? This somewhat ridiculous question appeared on the invitation to a talk and exhibition at Sir John Soane’s Museum in London. It was certainly a good way to encourage a hoard of people to make their way across Lincoln’s Inn Fields in the biting cold – the sponsors, upmarket building company Symm, must have been delighted with the turnout. (more)

Dubbed the “hate-mail cleric” by British tabloids, Anjem Choudary is London’s headline-grabbing Islamist who wants to see the United Kingdom under Shariah law and the queen under a burqa. Recently his group Al Muhajiroun (operating under the moniker “Islam4UK”) caused an uproar when they announced plans to march through the sleepy town of Wootton Bassett, a place best known for its solemn tributes to fallen British soldiers as their coffins are carried through its High Street after their arrival at a nearby Royal Air Force base. (more)

Abstract: For its proponents, "social justice" is usually undefined. Originally a Catholic term, first used about 1840 for a new kind of virtue (or habit) necessary for post-agrarian societies, the term has been bent by secular "progressive" thinkers to mean uniform state distribution of society’s advantages and disadvantages. Social justice is really the capacity to organize with others to accomplish ends that benefit the whole community. If people are to live free of state control, they must possess this new virtue of cooperation and association. This is one of the great skills of Americans and, ultimately, the best defense against statism. (more)