"Hamas Vows to Avenge Israel's Killing of Rantissi"
Okay, I'm curious - what is Hamas going to do that it hasn't already sworn to do since it's inception? Kill every Jew? Oops. That's already part of the platform. From Article Seven:

"The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him...."

I mean, when you draw a line in the sand that consists of murder, mayhem and destruction, well, you set the terms. Don't get upset if a missile comes calling.

BUSH'S PRESS CONFERENCE
He's not The Great Communicator, but he was earnest and plain-spoken. The idiotic question of the night (which was presented in many different forms) was, should he apologize for 9/11?

What a stupid question. If your house is broken into, do you expect the chief of police to come over and apologize that a burglar robbed your house? Are the police really to blame when crime happens? Maybe if the police knew a crime was about to be committed you could park a cruiser in front of the house, but even that's no guarantee that your home won't be robbed. When would a apology be appropriate?

A good police department doesn't mean there is no crime; but it should act as a deterrent to dissuade criminals from committing crimes in the first place. Likewise, extending the analogy to our government, a strong defense with appropriate intelligence-gathering assets and a quick, measured response to terrorist acts should make such animals think twice about attacking us.

Apologizing for events beyond your control is a foolish liberal invention, and contributes nothing to a real solution. Yet the press continues to act like something's wrong when administration officials don't feel the need to apologize.

MISERABLE WEATHER:

It almost exactly like Miami, except that it's always raining, it's cold, it's windy, it's....

Well, never mind. It's nothing like Miami.

AS AN APRIL FOOL'S JOKE, THIS IS SO NOT FUNNY:
Those fun-loving folks at Planned Parenthood have a new site up:

http://www.saveroe.com/whitehouse/

These are the same people who pilloried Bush for doing this.

UPDATE: Surprise! Planned Parenthood took the original, tacky website down. Guess they didn't think it was that funny. That's okay, thanks to the miracle of the web, you can find the page here.

WHY DO THEY HATE US?
An absolutely awesome Lilek's bleat today:

We stopped pretending we would ratify Kyoto. We only spent $15 billion on AIDS in Africa. We did not take dictation from Paris. If we had done these things, it would minimize the world’s anger.

Is the world angry at Russia, which spends nothing on AIDS and rebuffed Kyoto? Is the world angry at China, which got a pass on Kyoto and spends nothing on AIDS for other countries?

Is the world angry at North Korea for killings its people? Angry at Iran for smothering that vibrant nation with corrupt and thuggish mullocracy? Angry at Syria for occupying Lebanon? Angry at Saudi Arabia for its denial of women’s rights? Angry at Russia for corrupt elections? Is the world angry at China for threatening Taiwan, or angry at France for joining the Chinese in joint military exercises that threatened the island on the eve of an election? Is the world angry at Zimbabwe for stealing land and starving people? Is the world angry at Pakistan for selling nuclear secrets? Is the world angry at Libya for having an NBC program?

Is the world angry at the thugs of Fallujah?

Is the world angry at anyone besides America and Israel?

And that just happens to be easiest part to quote. Read the rest.

POP-POP POP POP POP...
This happened to be a day when I needed this:

HOW NOT TO IMPRESS YOUR GIRLFRIEND
This potty-mouthed moron's attorney claims he's an honors student?

I find that hard to believe.

AIR AMERICA DOESN'T SOUND VERY IMPRESSIVE...
Initial reviews are flat.

It's obvious Franken doesn't like Ann Coulter. I don't blame him; she's a lot funner than he is.