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Abe finds this Wall Street Journal piece about Joel Henry Hinrichs, the "OU Bomber," and the piece points out that while the MSM barely covered the incident, almost everything they covered was completely wrong. Several facts about the case fed...

Nearly one year since John Thune sent Tom Daschle packing (Ed: Back to Aberdeen? Oh, stop it.), the perpetual campaign keeps going, and going, and......

'The Great Game' Returns

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice completed her visit to Central Asia and Afghanistan last week. This is a tough neighborhood, which plays a key role in the forthcoming global game between the West and the rest.

The U.S. has growing geopolitical competition in the region from Russia, China and the global Islamist movement. Ms. Rice is now playing the 21st Century version of the "Great Game" in which, 100 years ago, the British Empire and Czarist Russia competed over the heartland of Eurasia.

What a phrase can evoke - "The Great Game" - recalling the not always glorious days of Kipling and Victoria:

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, And the women come out to cut up what remains, Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains An' go to your Gawd like a soldier. Go, go, go like a soldier?So-oldier of the Queen!

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Pujols' monster shot forces another game

The Chief admits to being a long-time and unashamed Cardinals fan - listening to the Redbird games on KMOX at night when I was supposed to be sleeping, after getting a radio for my 8th birthday, A few years later it was walking a few blocks from home, hopping the Grand Avenue streetcar ($.25) to the OLD Busch Stadium (bleachers $2.75). Given that, how could I go for anyone else, eh?

St. L. Cards

Monday tonight's game, with Albert Pujols stealing the win from the Astros with his3-run homer, with 2 outs + two strikes in the bottom of the 9th inning has to be one of the classic moments of the game. As a long time Cards fan, what a moment! I guess it ws a moment for the Astros of course, too, but with a somewhat different quality.

Sometimes you lose, sometimes you win, but the Houston tesm dancing in their dugout during the 9th inning re-learned a fundamental lesson - the game ain't over until there's 27 outs!

It's not time to start tearing down Busch Stadium yet!

New York Times: I voted then, for Saddam, of course, because I was afraid. But this time, I came here by my own choice. I am not afraid any more. I am a free man. - Jabar Ahmed Ismail, 75...

Dave Matthews and I have something in common: Dave Matthews Not That Into Himself Anymore. "I used to be a hardcore Dave Matthews fan," said Matthews on the porch of his Virginia home. "I had all my records and posters....

Bottom of the sixth: Boy, Oswalt is certainly the great equalizer tonight, isn't he? He's deflated a lot of the momentum that the Cardinals had after Monday night's game. Astros lead 4-1. Middle of the seventh: Biggio scores after Edmonds...

The current estimated Powerball lotter jackpot is $340 million dollars, with a cash value of about $164 million. It could very well be more by tonight's drawing. Don't think that I couldn't find a couple of dollars in the cupholder...

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