Michelle Kosinski, reporter for NBC, is caught massaging perceptions in a live bit for the Today show on NBC. Hilarious, must see, real-time takedown of overly ambitious reporter.

Wall Street Journal editorial page columnist John Fund wasn’t exactly thrilled by Harriet Miers nomination to the Supreme Court, but he was willing to wait ’til the hearings to ask questions. He now believes that “questions about Ms. Miers should be raised now–and loudly–because she has spent her entire life avoiding giving a clear picture [...]

I still haven’t seen any good argument for why Harriet Miers should be on the Supreme Court. It is not a good argument that “we should trust Bush” or that “the president has made his choice” or that she is a Texas lawyer (which seems to be Beldar’s talking point) or that the president can’t [...]

Were Muslim terrorists planning on attacking New York City on the anniversary of the Battle of Lepanto? That’s an interesting speculation.
Update: As it turned out, the whole thing was a hoax perpetrated by some terrorist in Iraq who presumably wanted to deal his way to good treatment or something. Regardless, Lepanto, what a battle!

From President George W. Bush’s speech at National Endowment for Democracy:
Some observers look at the job ahead and adopt a self-defeating pessimism. It is not justified. With every random bombing and with every funeral of a child, it becomes more clear that the extremists are not patriots, or resistance fighters — they are murderers at [...]

Leftie blogger Mattew Yglesias credits National Review with being more of a conservative magazine and less of a partisan talking-point rag, as it is sometimes described by detractors left and right.
But so what, wonders Yglesisas? Does the magazine’s opinions actually count? Do any conservative thoughts count in the G.O.P.?
National Review has consistently shown a lot [...]

One can always count on Boston Herald’s columnist Margery Eagan to make room for left-wing voices of unreason, like Jennifer Braceras, who’s quoted as saying: “The Hispanic community has every right to feel betrayed…by [conservatives] mobilizing against Gonzeles without making the case for a different Hispanic…” Yeah, there was no Hispanic judge to conservatives liking. [...]

Patrick Ruffini breaks a lance for Supreme Court Justice nominee Harriet Miers:
Little is known about the views of Harriet Miers. But what is known, through official and unofficial channels, paints a picture of a conservative Texas lawyer with rock-solid beliefs on life, strong religious convictions, and a modesty that should allay fears of a renegade [...]

After years and years of hard-fought battles, the Republican coalition finally put together enough victories to give a Republican President the chance to nominate two Supreme Court Justices for a Republican Senate to approve. And it turns out that one of those nominees is Harriet Miers, President George W. Bush’s Other Law Caddy.
And that’s why [...]

I think it was Rich Lowry who wrote in The Corner that President Clinton liked to do small, popular things, while President George W. Bush likes to do big, unpopular things. Not to pile on, but I think Bush’s nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court falls in the “big, unpopular” category. She [...]