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Sunday, May 29
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Newsmax reports on Ohio RINO George Voinovich, after going on about opposing Bolton for the sake of his kids and grandkids: Had the Senator been so worried about his children and Bolton's nomination, he might have shown up for most of the Foreign Relations Committee hearings about Bolton. But the Senator missed almost all the meetings.
The real reason Voinovich is angry was a series of TV ads played by a conservative group in Ohio criticizing the Senator for not backing Bolton early.
Bolton and the White House had nothing to do with the ads. But insiders say Voinovich was so ticked off by the local pressure he vowed to get Bolton. It seems getting hammered with negative ads may have finally taken a toll on Voinovich. The Club for Growth aired an ad that really ticked Voinovich off when he came out against Bush's tax cuts. The ad called him a "so-called Republican" like France is a "so-called ally" and then showed Voinovich with a French flag waving behind him.
Posted - 5/29/2005 06:45:11 PM - Permalink | |
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 The Washington Times' lead story centers on how the Filibuster battle/compromise is altering the '08 presidential landscape - most notably by giving a boost to Virginia Senator George Allen (who looks great from where I'm sitting).
More Democrat obstructionism, this time in the form of what is effectively a filibuster on the Bolton nomination, immediately followed this deal, quickly turning it into a loser. This delays the voting on and may spell disaster for Janice Rogers Brown and William Pryor if this deal blows out before they come to the senate floor.
McCain comes out a darling of the left (again), thus is a loser among Republicans. Free Congress Foundation President Paul M. Weyrich is quoted as saying, "McCain is dead meat." Frist came out looking weak/impudent and effectively lost the senate reigns to Harry Reid and his obstructionist shrinking minority, thus he is also a loser. Aside from the newly appointed Priscilla Owen, the only person who can be called a winner in this whole filibuster debacle is George Allen, but his gain is relative. As American Conservative Union chairman David Keene said, "George Allen is helped to the extent that the other potential [Republican] nomination competitors are not helped, ...Allen was on the right side and said the right things."
Read the whole article in the Washington Times.
Posted - 5/29/2005 07:34:00 AM - Permalink | |
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Saturday, May 28
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At what income level are voters more likely to vote Republican than Democrat? The "tipping point" is an annual income of $23,700 according to Third Way, a progressive advocacy group whose study of the 2004 election exit polling is the subject of a WaPo article called The Democrats' Class Struggle: "Rather than being the party of the middle class, Democrats face a crisis with middle-income voters," the study argues.
"The 45% of voters who make up the middle class -- those with household incomes between $30,000 and $75,000 -- delivered healthy victories to George Bush and House Republicans in 2004."
The study is based on Third Way's analysis of 2004 exit polls. Among the five principal findings are that white middle-income voters supported President Bush by 22 percentage points. The study concluded that the "economic tipping point -- the income level above which white voters were more likely to vote Republican than Democrat -- was $23,700." Regarding minority voters, Hispanics are following this same trend but Blacks are not: Black voters supported the presidential candidacy of Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.) and House Democrats by significant margins regardless of their income levels, but white middle-class voters tended to vote more like wealthy voters. "Democrats were not competitive at all among the white middle class," according to the study.
The report also contained alarming news for Democrats about Hispanic voters. The more Hispanics move into the middle class, the less they vote Democratic.
Based on the analysis of exit polls, Kerry's margin over Bush among Hispanics with household incomes below $30,000 was 21 percentage points, but among those with incomes between $30,000 and $75,000, it was 10 points. This destroys the old Democrat line about Republicans being the party of the rich. This trend could well continue due to the Bush tax cuts. My family has an annual income of roughly $65,000, with two children and a home (we itemize to deduct our mortgage interest), our tax rate has been greatly reduced in the last several years. We pay very little now (to the tune of about 5% last year) because of these tax cuts. This is something concrete that affects people in an attention getting place - their wallets. Tax cuts for the rich. The $64,000 question posed to Democrats: define rich. Am I rich? Would Democrats raise my taxes? Getting Democrats to define "rich" is like getting them to define "extreme circumstances" on judicial nominees. Read the whole story at the Washington Post. Third Way is a "Senate-Focused Progressive Advocacy Group." Hat Tip: Lucianne
Posted - 5/28/2005 09:15:41 AM - Permalink | |
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Friday, May 27
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Via N.Z. Bear, the WSJ measures the impact of blogs.
Posted - 5/27/2005 09:07:43 PM - Permalink | |
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Thomas Lipscomb writes The Dog That Didn't Bark at E&P on Newspaper Guild President Linda Foley's remarks about US forces targeting journalists in Iraq: "The Press and Linda Foley: Why has there been so little mention in the mainstream media of the Newspaper Guild president's recent charge that journalists are "being targeted for real" in Iraq by the U.S. military?" Read it.
Posted - 5/27/2005 08:56:01 PM - Permalink | |
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Mark Tooley roundly nails the religious left for projection -which is, in typical liberal fashion, accusing their (perceived) enemies of engaging in the same behavior and using tactics that they themselves routinely do- more commonly called hypocrisy: ...[ National Council of Churches (NCC) head Bob] Edgar and other Religious Left activists resorted to fear and religious zeal when, in March, they condemned President Bush's budget proposals. "Jesus makes clear that perpetrating economic injustice is among the gravest of sins," intoned their joint ecumenical statement signed by the officers of five mainline Protestant denominations. As words of warning to Bush, they cited the Gospel of Luke's reference to a rich man in Hell crying out for mercy after a life of indifference to the poor, and they urged church members to "do justice" by "opposing this budget."
Senator Frist never implied anyone might go to Hell because of their votes on President Bush's judicial nominees. Damnation is apparently a penalty only for opposing liberal political causes.
Posted - 5/27/2005 07:08:16 PM - Permalink | |
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Thursday, May 26
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 Via Memphis' Commercial Appeal, After a two year sting operation, Tennessee state Senator John Ford has been indicted and arrested on charges that include bribery and two counts of intimidating a witness. Charged with Ford were state Sen. Kathryn Bowers, D-Memphis; state Rep. Chris Newton, R-Benton; state Sen. Ward Crutchfield, D-Chattanooga; and Roscoe Dixon, a former state senator who is now a top aide to Shelby County Mayor A C Wharton; Charles Love, Hamilton County school board member, Chattanooga; and former Juvenile Court official Barry Myers. From the CA: The indictments were part of a sting called "Tennessee Waltz," and began with numerous reports that a number of public officials welcomed bribes in exchange for help passing legislation.
According to indictments released Thursday, Ford took $55,000 from representatives of a bogus company called E-Cycle [Yahoo cached page here], to help the company pass legislation that would give the company an edge in its field.
The fake company was based in Atlanta and reportedly was in the business of disposing of used electronic equipment.
According to the indictments, Ford told a representative of E-Cycle who approached him about passing a bill to favor the company: "You are talking to the guy that makes the deals."
The indictment also outlines several threats Ford made to undercover FBI agents, telling one on March 11, 2005, "that if he caught someone trying to set him up, he would shoot that person, kill them, so that there would be no witnesses." The CA also reports that Ford, Myers, and Dixon had their hands and feet shackled when they appeared in federal court earlier today. WREG Channel 3 has the indictments as well as Senate Bill 94 (in pdf format), a computer recycling bill which is at the center of the controversy. Bill Hobbs has full coverage and updates. Update- WREG-3 is reporting John Ford will spend the night in jail. He is a considered a threat for intimidating witnesses and has a history of violence! Also, WMC has a timeline up on this entire incident..  Update- The story is beginning to trickle out to the national media, such as the LA Times and CNN. Half-Bakered has a play-by-play and continuing coverage. GOP and the City and Michelle Malkin post on the subject and point to Channel 5 Nashville's great coverage. Pesky Fly learns our crooked legislators are not very bright.
Posted - 5/26/2005 05:10:00 PM - Permalink | |
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Wednesday, May 25
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Edward Whelan, at NRO's Bench Memos, introduces someone "out of the mainstream," a nominee with far left views. This nominee believes there is a constitutional right to prostitution and polygamy, would like to see Mother's and Father's Day abolished in favor of an androgynous Parent's Day, has attacked the Boy and Girl Scouts for perpetuating stereotyped sex roles, has called called for an end to single-sex prisons in favor of coed ones, and is in favor of court-ordered racial quotas to balance the racial composition of the work place. The nominee was former ACLU general counsel, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, at the time of her nomination to the Supreme Court in 1993. She was approved 96-3, by the way.
Posted - 5/25/2005 07:53:48 PM - Permalink | |
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Tuesday, May 24
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Boston Globe: The caveat emperor , John F. Kerry actually signed standard form 180 to release his military records, he just hasn't sent it in yet!
Posted - 5/24/2005 06:15:46 PM - Permalink | |
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Sunday, May 22
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Apparently video of a decapitation is good to go, but Saddam in his skivies, NO WAY! Al Jeazeera actual calls the pics "offensive".
Posted - 5/22/2005 04:36:18 PM - Permalink | |
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Newsweek: America is dead. Friend Riding Sun shows Newsweek's Japanese edition that has a cover showing an American flag in a garbage can. The magazine included a cover story in both the Japanese and International versions on what they believe is America's decline, but the story was excluded in the US copy. Newsweek provides a very harsh translation in Japanese as well:  Both of the ...editions featured a cover-story article by Andrew Moravcsik, titled "Dream on, America". (This was translated into Japanese as "Yume no kuni Amerika ga kuchihateru toki", which is even harsher; it means, roughly, "America, the dream country, is rotting away".) According to Newsweek itself, the article described "the world's rejection of the American way of life."
Ouch. GaijinBiker offers sound advice for Newsweak: It's one thing for Newsweek to actively promote the notion that America is a "dead", "rotting" country overseas. But it's quite another thing indeed to hide those efforts from its American readers. If Newsweek really thinks America is dead, and our flag belongs in the trash, why won't it tell us?
If I were to offer Newsweek a suggestion, it would be this: Any story or cover you're ashamed to run in America probably shouldn't be used in other countries, either.
Posted - 5/22/2005 04:02:00 PM - Permalink | |
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Saturday, May 21
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James Watt writes in the WaPo about The Religious Left's Lies.
Posted - 5/21/2005 10:22:08 PM - Permalink | |
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This was an update to an earlier post but I think it deserves it's own: Jason Pappas at Liberty And Culture posts Let's burn the Koran which references this article at CNSNews about Michigan Rep. John Conyers's House resolution that says the Koran "should be treated with dignity and respect" and condemns the disrespecting of religions, specifically Islam, in response to Newsweek's Koran flushing bungle. This is problematic as it limits free speech. More grievously, it limits political speech since, as Pappas correctly points out, Islam has become a political ideology. This reminds me of the move Canada made in declaring the Bible hate speech against homosexuality. More ridiculous coddling.
With regards to the Koran being destroyed/flushed/burnt: They need to get over it. The Islamic world is in dire need of much harsh criticism and instead are coddled. The Islamist/Jihadists don't need an excuse to riot/murder/destroy and the so-called "moderate" Muslims don't seem to care this is happening or that this kind of outrageous behavior is really dishonoring/smearing their religion - much more than flushing paper pages down a toilet. The Sixth Column says Don't let this resolution pass! I agree.
CNSNews also reports that Saudi customs officials routinely confiscate Bibles from visitors to Saudi Arabia and then shred them. We are closely watching the Christian world for riots,destruction, and mayhem over this. Not!!!!!!!!
Posted - 5/21/2005 03:04:00 PM - Permalink | |
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 Conan O'Brien showcases the new Star Wars fan figures such as Morbidly O-beesis, Gadget Freako, and Bootlegger. The video can be seen at Conan's website (the link is in the upper left hand corner).
Posted - 5/21/2005 12:47:38 PM - Permalink | |
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Thursday, May 19
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"Guild Chief Under Fire for Comments About Attacks on Journalists in Iraq" - E&P has the scoop on Linda Foley, national president of The Newspaper Guild and her Eason-esque comments. A few chioce quotes: Journalists are not just being targeted verbally or politically. They are also being targeted for real in places like Iraq. And what outrages me as a representative of journalists is that there's not more outrage about the number and the brutality, and the cavalier nature of the U.S. military toward the killing of journalists in Iraq. I think it's just a scandal.
It's not just U.S. journalists either, by the way. They target and kill journalists from other countries, particularly Arab countries, at news services like Al Jazeera, for example. They actually target them and blow up their studios, with impunity. This is all part of the culture that it is OK to blame the individual journalists, and it just takes the heat off of these media conglomerates that are part of the problem. She cites no specific incidents and has no proof. Do they never learn? A CNS News story is here.
Posted - 5/19/2005 07:11:00 PM - Permalink | |
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Hugh Hewitt's new Standard column is about his recent interview with ABC's Terry Moran. The transcript of the interview can be read in full at Radio Blogger. Moran confirms what we already knew: It comes from, I think, a huge gulf of misunderstanding, for which I lay plenty of blame on the media itself. There is, Hugh, I agree with you, a deep anti-military bias in the media. One that begins from the premise that the military must be lying, and that American projection of power around the world must be wrong. I think that that is a hangover from Vietnam, and I think it's very dangerous. That's different from the media doing its job of challenging the exercise of power without fear or favor. James Taranto writes that Moran "looks too young to have come of age in the Vietnam/Watergate era." It's more likely he is a product of the liberal bubble that encases most journalism schools and newsrooms.
Posted - 5/19/2005 06:41:00 PM - Permalink | |
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Jeff Jacoby has an interesting take on the Newsweek incident, he writes: Christians, Jews, and Buddhists don't lash out in homicidal rage when their religion is insulted. They don't call for holy war and riot in the streets. It would be unthinkable for a mainstream priest, rabbi, or lama to demand that a blasphemer be slain. But when Reuters reported what Mohammad Hanif, the imam of a Muslim seminary in Pakistan, said about the alleged Koran-flushers -- ''They should be hung. They should be killed in public so that no one can dare to insult Islam and its sacred symbols' -- was any reader surprised? Well, no. This is what is now expected behavior. He goes on to point out anger should have been directed at the religious nut-jobs, but everyone piled on Newsweek. Why must the Islamic world be coddled so? Could it be that most of the free world sees Islamists as raging kooks prone to rioting, violence, and murder? We're still waiting for supposed "moderate Muslims" to denounce this madness and take their religion back. Still, Jacoby brings conservatives to task for this: The Muslim riots should have been met by outrage and condemnation. From every part of the civilized world should have come denunciations of those who would react to the supposed destruction of a book with brutal threats and the slaughter of 17 innocent people. But the chorus of condemnation was directed not at the killers and the fanatics who incited them, but at Newsweek.
From the White House down, the magazine was slammed -- for running an item it should have known might prove incendiary, for relying on a shaky source, for its animus toward the military and the war. Over and over, Newsweek was blamed for the riots' death toll. Conservative pundits in particular piled on. ''Newsweek lied, people died" was the headline on Michelle Malkin's popular website. At NationalReview.com, Paul Marshall of Freedom House fumed: ''What planet do these [Newsweek] people live on? . . . Anybody with a little knowledge could have told them it was likely that people would die as a result of the article." All of Marshall's choler was reserved for Newsweek; he had no criticism at all for the marauders in the Muslim street.
Then there was Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who announced at a Senate hearing that she had a message for ''Muslims in America and throughout the world." And what was that message? That decent people do not resort to murder just because someone has offended their religious sensibilities? That the primitive bloodlust raging in Afghanistan and Pakistan was evidence of the Muslim world's dysfunctional political culture?
No: Her message was that ''disrespect for the Holy Koran is not now, nor has it ever been, nor will it ever be, tolerated by the United States." More coddling courtesy of Rice. Stupidity such as flag-burning and the desecration of religious texts come with real freedom. Jacoby ends with what he calls the real disrespect to Islam: Granted, Rice spoke while the rioting was still taking place and her goal was to reduce the anti-American fever. But what ''Muslims in America and throughout the world" most need to hear is not pandering sweet-talk. What they need is a blunt reminder that the real desecration of Islam is not what some interrogator in Guantanamo might have done to the Koran. It is what totalitarian Muslim zealots have been doing to innocent human beings in the name of Islam. It is 9/11 and Beslan and Bali and Daniel Pearl and the USS Cole. It is trains in Madrid and schoolbuses in Israel and an ''insurgency" in Iraq that slaughters Muslims as they pray and vote and line up for work. It is Hamas and Al Qaeda and sermons filled with infidel-hatred and exhortations to ''martyrdom."
But what disgraces Islam above all is the vast majority of the planet's Muslims saying nothing and doing nothing about the jihadist cancer eating away at their religion. It is Free Muslims Against Terrorism, a pro-democracy organization, calling on Muslims and Middle Easterners to ''converge on our nation's capital for a rally against terrorism" -- and having only 50 people show up.
Yes, Islam is disrespected. That will only change when throngs of passionate Muslims show up for rallies against terrorism, and when rabble-rousers trying to gin up a riot over a defiled Koran can't get the time of day. This is correct, but Newsweek's mistake is the latest in a long string of slanted sloppy reporting, and there's no excusing that. Andrew McCarthy recently addressed this an NRO column: In the affirmative-action context, conservatives have written trenchantly about the "soft bigotry of low expectations" - the promotion of a vile dependency-ethos that says "you don't need to strive for better," as a result of which many people who might, don't. Our cognate sense of the Islamic world has become the smug delusion of base expectations.
Someone alleges a Koran flushing and what do we do? We expect, accept, and silently tolerate militant Muslim savagery - lots of it.
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"Minor indignities? How can you say something so callous about a desecration of the Holy Koran?" I say it as a member of the real world, not the world of prissy affectation. I don't know about you, but I inhabit a place where crucifixes immersed in urine and Madonna replicas composed of feces are occasions for government funding, not murderous uprisings. If someone was moved to kill on their account, we'd be targeting the killer, not the exhibiting museum, not the "artists," and surely not Newsweek. Like I said, with real freedom comes stupidity such as flag-burning, Bible burning, Koran flushing, etc. An article that concurs with Jacoby about where blame should be assigned, by Andrew G. Boston, is at The American Thinker. Update- A NY Sun editorial hints at the idea that with real freedom comes opinions of all kinds on religious texts: "It would have been nice if our secretary of state [Rice] acknowledged that it is every American's right to voice all kinds of opinions in respect of all kinds of religious texts. This is a fact the rioters know full well." Taranto continues off of this editorial with the following: In fairness to Rice, she presumably was referring to government policy, not the actions or opinions of private individuals. Still, by way of comparison, recall that three years ago Palestinian Arab terrorists occupied the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. Priests reported that "gunmen tore up Bibles for toilet paper," according to the Daily Camera of Boulder, Colo. The Chicago Tribune noted after the siege that "altars had been turned into cooking and eating tables, a sacrilege to the religious faithful."
Christians in the U.S. responded by declining to riot and refraining from killing anyone. They had the same response 15 or so years ago when the National Endowment for the Arts was subsidizing the scatological desecration of a crucifix and other Christian symbols. This should also put to rest the oft-heard calumny that America's "religious right" is somehow a Christian equivalent of our jihadi enemies. Update 2- Jason Pappas at Liberty And Culture posts Let's burn the Koran, about Michigan Rep. John Conyers's House resolution condemning the "disrespecting" of religions, specifically Islam, in response to Newsweek's Koran flushing bungle. This is problematic as it limits free speech. This reminds me of the move Canada made in declaring the Bible hate speech against homosexuality. Ridiculous! With regards to the Koran being destroyed/flushed/burnt: What's the big effing deal? They need to get over it. The Islamic world is in dire need of much harsh criticism and instead are coddled. The Islamist/Jihadists don't need an excuse to riot/murder/destroy and the so-called "moderate" Muslims don't seem to care this is happening or that this kind of outrageous behavior is really dishonoring/smearing their religion - much more than flushing paper pages down a toilet. The Sixth Column says Don't let this resolution pass! I agree.
Posted - 5/19/2005 06:06:00 PM - Permalink | |
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Wednesday, May 18
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The Washington Times has a flash-back to memos that reveal the Democrat's strategy behind their filibustering of judges. These memos were written about in the WSJ and were completely ignored by the MSM. The MSM was concerned with how the memos were obtained, not what was in them, which happened to be marching orders for senate Democrats from liberal interest groups for the obstruction of Bush's judicial nominees. These Collusion Memos can all be found at Fairjudiciary.com.
Posted - 5/18/2005 07:45:00 PM - Permalink | |
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The liberal press flails wildly as they seek to blame the Whitehouse for the Newsweek debacle at today's WH press briefing. McClellan showed much restraint for simply not slapping the hell out of ABC's Terry Moron. The transcript is here and James Taranto covers this on his Best of the Web Today. MRC also has a round-up that includes The Today Show and Olbermann.
I keep hearing the argument from liberal quarters that the WhiteHouse is in no position to lecture anyone because of "what it got wrong" with regards to Iraq's WMD, Bush did far more damage and is guilty of inciting much more violence. This amounts to a "people in glass houses" defense. This is pointing out certain (bad)behavior to justify other (bad) behavior. Should the media be allowed to publish anything it wants, no matter how thin the source or evidence because they think "Bush did far worse?" It is truly sad that the MSM is reduced to this to somehow justify irresponsible and sloppy journalism.
Posted - 5/18/2005 07:21:00 PM - Permalink | |
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New Gallup Poll - Church Attendance and Party Identification: "There is a strong correlation in America today between one's religiosity and one's political status. This political status includes both the political party with which one identifies as well as the candidate for whom one votes."
Posted - 5/18/2005 06:59:43 PM - Permalink | |
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Tuesday, May 17
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Form the LV Review Journal:  The poll, taken last Thursday through Saturday for the Review-Journal and reviewjournal.com, was the first constituent measure of Reid's performance since he became Senate minority leader in January.
It also was the first test of Nevadans' sentiment on how Reid has led Democrats' continuing threats to filibuster Bush nominees they believe unsuitable for lifetime federal judgeships.
Analysts said the poll results on balance looked positive for Reid, although some said they could be better for a senator who was re-elected last November with 61 percent support and has broad powers to help the state. Several analysts added Reid is operating in the Senate with an added comfort of not having to face voters again for another six years.
"A slight majority feel they are disappointed in his leadership tactics. What does that really mean? Probably not a whole lot. If he runs again it will be six years down the road, and this (judicial fight) will be forgotten," said Brad Coker, managing director of Mason-Dixon Polling & Research. Inc., which conducted the survey.
On the matter of judges, the poll showed 51 percent of responding Nevadans, including one in four Democrats, said they disapproved of Reid's strategy to filibuster some of the president's selections. Forty-two percent of Nevadans said they approved of Reid's efforts.
On job performance, 55 percent rated Reid "good" or "excellent," 28 percent rated him "poor," and 15 percent said he was doing a "fair" job.
Despite his leading role in partisan fighting over judges and Social Security reform, Reid drew some support from Nevada Republicans, with 29 percent of GOP respondents rating him "good" or "excellent." Forty-nine percent rated him "poor."
Posted - 5/17/2005 08:49:26 PM - Permalink | |
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 Right over their heads. Unless you have some knowledge about the Bible, a myriad of references in everything from literature to art and from politics to pop culture, will be missed. David Gelernter writes in the Weekly Standard about Bible Illiteracy in America, referencing the Bible Literacy Project.
Update- Sarah Jenislawski pointed me to the awesome The Bible Literacy Blog.
Posted - 5/17/2005 03:33:00 PM - Permalink | |
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Monday, May 16
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Novak reveals some interesting info about NARAL Pro-Choice America and the financial information of judges.
Posted - 5/16/2005 06:37:34 PM - Permalink | |
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Christopher Hitchens asks Why does the New York Times insist on calling jihadists "insurgents"?
Posted - 5/16/2005 06:34:50 PM - Permalink | |
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Tom Lifson at the ""Thinker: "Bill Moyers, the former LBJ hatchet man and left wing ideologue, is attacking those who seek to rescue PBS and NPR from their leftward lurch toward death. For decades, PBS and NPR have violated the law which requires they be 'strictly fair, objective and balanced.' "
Posted - 5/16/2005 06:25:57 PM - Permalink | |
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Hindrocket at the Standard: Trouble At Turtle Bay: "The numbers for the U.N.'s new renovation project just don't addd up."
Posted - 5/16/2005 06:17:01 PM - Permalink | |
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No surprise here: A University of Connecticut Department of Public Policy survey found journalists picked Kerry over Bush by 68 percent to 25 percent. E&P has some great details on the survey under this headline: New Survey Finds Huge Gap Between Press and Public on Many Issues.
Posted - 5/16/2005 05:36:00 PM - Permalink | |
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The MSM strikes again, this time in brilliant fashion. So much for these "checks and balances" we keep hearing about. Newsweek has now retracted it's faulty Koran-desecration story. The magazine previously admitted errors in the story. Instead of reporting what happened like they should, Newsweek is reduced to reporting on what it made happen, the news they created - here (in the form of an apology) and here.
Posted - 5/16/2005 05:32:58 PM - Permalink | |
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