It's been a great couple of days of news...

...now that not every single story is great I can put down my favorites again. I was thinking about taking a leave of absence if not retirement, but hence...that was naive of me.

This is a GREAT laugh...
In his latest video he sounds like some elderly Berkeley sociology student making lame jokes about Halliburton and Bush reading My Pet Goat.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11288119%5E7583,00.html

another absolutely great brit article...
They don’t seem to understand the point I’ve been making for years now — that the Democrats and the media reinforce each other’s delusions.
The moulters’ willingness to abandon the long-term goal because of a nickel’n’dime jailhouse scandal and a rate of combat fatalities that any earlier generation of Americans would have regarded as the blessings of a merciful God speaks very poorly for them. Even as an armchair warrior, I wouldn’t want to be in a foxhole with these guys.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php?id=5195&page=1

Mormons have a pretty decent area in this map.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/041105/480/nyet26311051453

Viva Texas!
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=5&u=/ap/20041105/ap_on_re_us/textbooks_marriage

George Bush — through the beheadings, the kidnappings, Abu Ghraib, the hysteria of a Richard Clark, Joe Wilson, Anonymous, Rathergate, the 9/11 Commission, CIA rogue analysts, cheap European slurs, insane remarks from Walter Cronkite to Bill Moyers, and last-minute media fabricated "scandals" — has never faltered, so confident was he in the exceptionalism of America and the unshakeable resolve and competence of the U.S. military.

Most of the American people, of course, agreed all along.
http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson110504.html