Last comes the beverage of the Orient shore, Mocha, far off, the fragrant berries bore. Taste the dark fluid with a dainty lip, Digestion waits on pleasure as you sip. ~ Pope Leo XII

Right Wing News (John Hawkins) Prosecute The Leakers, Not The New York Times — “Start things out by asking the reporters to reveal their sources. If they don’t give them up, throw them in jail for contempt until they give up the source. Once the government learns the identity of the source who knowingly broke the law by giving out classified info, we should throw everything in the book at them and make sure they end up breaking big rocks into smaller rocks for a couple of decades.”

Blogs for Bush (Mark Noonan) Murtha Speaks Again — “Well, this puts Murtha square in the Sheehan/Kos/Man From Mars sector of the Democratic Party…really, Democrats, is this what you want your main spokesman on the war to be saying? That the United States of American - the greatest and best nation in human history and the bulwark of freedom and decency in the world - is a greater threat to peace than Iran or North Korea? Is this what you believe?”

Captain’s Quarters (Ed Morrissey) Delusions Of Grandeur Die Hard In Baghdad — “Saddam Hussein has had a difficult time adjusting to life out of power and in the hands of the people he brutalized for four decades. That kind of life change can cause cognitive difficulties for someone in that position; the mind plays tricks on megalomaniacs, allowing them to believe that they still occupy the center of the universe.”

Wizbang (Lorie Byrd) Time To Plant The Goalposts — “One thing to look for over the coming week or so is for announcements of troop reductions to be met with the claim that those reductions are a result of John Kerry/John Murtha’s calls to cut-and-run. The very idea is ridiculous and dishonest, which means it is likely that someone will pick it up and run with it. (It has already been floated in several comments here over the past week.) Not only is it wrong that future troop reductions in Iraq are due to any pressure from Democrats, I believe many of the Democrats’ calls for troop withdrawal were made in anticipation of the reductions President Bush spoke of a year or so ago.”

Confederate Yankee Crash — “That crashing sound you hear is shatering of the liberal myth that Saddam Hussein’s Iraq didn’t have ties to the Taliban and al Qaeda. Of course it did, and the documented ties are getting stronger:”