Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to prosecute five individuals accused of conspiring in the 9/11 attacks in U.S. federal court drew swift reactions from Real Americans.
"Hang 'em high," facebooked one Sarah Palin.
And as tempting as that may be, I think there's a better way.
Since 2002, the military has been blasting accused terrorists with loud music performed by liberal artists, mostly to no avail.
Perhaps they should try subjecting them to "Going Rogue," a historical fictional memoir written in Palin's own voice.
Morning lineup:
Meet the Press Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; Secretary of Education Arne Duncan; Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA); Rev. Al Sharpton.
Face the Nation: Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI); Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT); Dana Priest (The Washington Post); Juan Zarate (CBS News).
This Week: Hillary Clinton; Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani (9/11); Roundtable: George Will (The Washington Post), Bob Woodward (The Washington Post), Gwen Ifill (PBS), David Brooks (The New York Times) and David Corn (Mother Jones).
Fox News Sunday: Rudy Giuliani; Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY); Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI); Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci; Roundtable: Bill Kristol (The Weekly Standard), Mara Liasson (NPR), Propagandist Liz Cheney and Juan Williams (Fox News).
State of the Union: White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod; Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND); Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH); Rudy Giuliani; Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer (D); Former Education Secretary Bill Bennett; Democratic Strategist Donna Brazile; Reliable Sources: Cliff May (Foundation for the Defense of Democracy); Reihan Salam (New America Foundation).
The Chris Matthews Show: Eugene Robinson (The Washington Post); Katty Kay (BBC); Peggy Noonan (The Wall Street Journal); Micvhael Duffy (TIME).
Fareed Zakaria GPS: Former CIA Officer Reuel Gerecht; Claremont McKenna College Professor Minxin Pei; Harvard Professor Roderick MacFarquhar; Author Joshua Cooper Ramo ("The Age of the Unthinkable").
Afternoon delight:
Amanpour: Amira Hass (Ha'aretz); Middle East Analyst Aaron David Miller; Karen Greenberg (Center on Law and Security); Norwegian Defense Research Establishment Fellow Thomas Heggehammer; U.S. Coordinator for Counterterrorism Daniel Benjamin.
Primetime viewing:
60 Minutes will feature: a report on the widespread use of IEDs in Afghanistan (preview); an interview with dinosaur hunter Jack Horner — the inspiration for the lead character in the film "Jurassic Park" (preview); and, a report on the resurrection of an area in Southern Iraq where many biblical scholars place the Garden of Eden (preview).
Kicking off their second annual "Expedition Week," the National Geographic Channel will premiere Search for the Amazon Headshrinkers — in which author and explorer Piers Gibbon heads deep into the Amazon jungle in an attempt to rediscover the exact location where the only known footage of an actual head being shrunk was purportedly filmed 45 years ago.
On Comedy Central...
Jon Stewart looked back at some of Lou Dobbs' greatest hits following the announcement of his departure from CNN.
The Daily Show
Monday: Author Jake Adelstein ("Tokyo Vice")
Tuesday: Vice President Joe Biden
Wednesday: Author Andrew Ross Sorkin ("Too Big to Fail")
Thursday: Rock Band Jake's Mannequin
And Stephen Colbert claimed Lou's audience and opinions for himself.
The Colbert Report
Monday: AuthorPaul Goldberger ("Why Architecture Matters")
Tuesday: Author Malcolm Gladwell ("What the Dog Saw")
Wednesday: Singer/Songwriter Norah Jones
Thursday: Musician/Host Elvis Costello ("Spectacle: Elvis Costello With...")
Elsewhere...
South Carolina GOP officials rebuked Sen. Lindsey Graham over the alternative lifestyle he's been leading in Washington.
The Charleston County Republican Party's executive committee took the unusual step Monday night of censuring U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. because of several positions he has taken that clash with the GOP party line.
County Chairwoman Lin Bennett said the unanimous vote "is an effort to get his attention. They're just fed up, and they want him to know they're fed up."
And court filings shed more light on the lifestyle of Dr. Orly Taitz, Esq. than you'd ever care to know.
"Orly's better in bed than 99% of the much younger girls I've ever met: you name it, hotter, hornier, wetter, tighter, more of a nympho than I've ever met in fact. Her only limitation is on kinkiness: she won't even bite or let me bite her. Maybe that's part of her craziness---she is very straightlaced, conservative, "normal" and for that reason never "got enough" when she was younger and always had to channel it to other things, and now she's finally cheating on her husband and totally wants to let loose but doesn't quite know how..."
In other legal news...
Glenn Beck was dealt a blow by the World Intellectual Property Organization.
Fox News' Glenn Beck has lost a claim that a website called glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com was registered in bad faith and in violation of his trademark rights.
The website was founded by Isaac Eiland-Hall earlier this year in response to a joke on odd-news site Fark about Beck's lack of denial for a non-existent murder/rape. Eiland-Hall argued to WIPO that he registered the website as a satirical critique of Beck's conspiratorial politics.
WIPO's arbitration panel agreed that the website appeared "to be engaged in a parody of the style or methodology that (Eiland-Hall) appears genuinely to believe is employed by (Beck) in the provision of political commentary, and for that reason (Eiland-Hall) can be said to be making a political statement."
I rest my case.
- Trix