“A rebel spokesman in Benghazi said Sirte was now in the hands of rebel forces – but there has been no independent confirmation of the claim, and international journalists inside the city suggested it was still in government hands on Monday.”

• Gaddafi losing ground?
• Maybe we should build more solar and wind.
• Krugman: American thought police.
• Operation Stupid: not so stupid?
• Those poor, oppressed billionaires.

The tragedy in Japan has the people their reassessing their priorities. How dare they!

Baby Queen: We’re Out of Pampers!

Oh, and we need some denouncing, stat: Michele Bachmann, Tim Pawlenty, Mike Huckabee, and Haley Barbour, likely presidential aspirants all, have appeared on Bryan Fischer’s radio show.

Remember when Hervé Villechaize got himself fired from Fantasy Island for demanding to be paid as much as Ricardo Montalban?

Hervé had it all over Mickey when it comes to awesome career moves.

As we watch the NATO actions in Libya and listen to the discussions about “the responsibility to protect,” it does make you wonder who is looking out for the civilians of Afghanistan.

Well, okay, probably not. But look at the news from today and tell me there won’t eventually be a really big swing of the regulatory pendulum.

It’s very easy for the Third Way to congratulate itself that it got a bunch of people “from Middle America” to complain that gay men and women deprived of civil rights “don’t get it,” it’s a fundamentally dishonest project. But the people who “don’t get it” are those who pretend they can separate the institution of marriage from society’s full recognition of that institution, legally, through the rights it conveys.

The word in Yemen as of Friday was that President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s 32-year rule was nearing its final days. He entered talks with the opposition to leave the office of the Presidency, if the country could be put into “safe hands.” Saleh had previously offered to step down within a year, but the protest movement rejected anything less than an immediate departure, generally through throwing their shoes at pictures of the President.