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Pop star Ricky Martin testified on Capitol Hill about human trafficking.
Thomas Sowell has a brilliant article this week on how to respond to radical Islamists:
There was far more controversy over remarks made by the Pope than over the violence unleashed by Muslims against people who had nothing to do with what the Pope said.
That our enemies do not understand the significance of free speech in a free society, where things that offend us can be denounced without indiscriminate violence, is bad enough. But that we ourselves seem headed further down the slippery slope of self-censorship is chilling.
Tolerance has been one of the virtues of western civilization. But virtues can be carried to extremes that turn them into vices. Toleration of intolerance is a particularly dangerous vice to which western nations are succumbing, both within their own countries and internationally.
Double standards are being wrapped in the mantle of morality. The drive to extend Geneva convention protection to terrorists who are not covered under the Geneva convention is one of a number of dangerous self-indulgences by people who seem to think that being morally one-up is the ultimate and survival is secondary.
...Those in the United States and in other western nations who are urging dialogue with Iran are repeating the tragic mistakes of the 1930s that led to World War II. People say talk is cheap but it can be enormously costly when it becomes just a way to forestall action while an enemy nation builds up its military threat.
Read the whole thing.
The set of the pilot episode of the "This Just In"
(Image is merged from two smaller photos. Click for a larger image.)
There was a taping last night of a pilot episode for a possible "Daily Show" style show of news-oriented comedy, with a more Conservative angle on the news. I won't let the cat out of the bag by describing any of the material, but I will say that it was hilarious. Regular readers of Conservative and Libertarian blogs would be delighted to find material they are familiar with used for laughs for the first time on TV. It would be great to see this become a regular series. This kind of show has been very successful when presented with a Liberal slant, but the red-state half of the country doesn't yet have anything of this sort to watch. So this seems very likely to attract viewers. The great cast and strong writing of this pilot indicate that the viewers would come back for more.
