Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love. ~ Talleyrand

Michelle Malkin is full of Hot Air (And that’s a good thing!) — (h/t: Alpaca Burger Forum)

TMH’s Bacon Bits (The MaryHunter) Steyn on Eco-worship and Climate Change — “That last bit would be funnier (politicians, heh) if it wasn’t for the fact that so many folk actually worship at this insane, human-hating moonbat eco-altar. In fact, it scares the crap right out of me. It’s this kind of perverse logic that has rought so much suffering on the most poor and underprivileged on this planet.”

Polipundit (Lorie Byrd) It Is About Time — “I am sick to death of hearing about what a failure Iraq is when that determination cannot possibly be made until at least a decade from now. I am sick of the good news from Iraq being ignored by those whose job it is to report all the facts.” (h/t: Right Wing News)

Iowa Voice (Brian) Kerry Defends Leaker — “No surprise. See, Democrats only hate leaks when it’s something that makes them look bad. Otherwise, they LOVE them, regardless of what harm is does to national security:”

The Jawa Report (Bluto) Yale Looking For Face-Saving Way to Oust Talibani Student — “Evidently Yale doesn’t like the negative publicity it’s received since welcoming Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, the unreconstructed Taliban knuckle-dragger admitted under their non-traditional student program.”

Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical. ~ Jonathan Swift

Right Wing News (John Hawkins) Mohammed And South Park — “If we don’t have the guts to post these cartoons here in the United States because we’re afraid of extremist Muslims, how can we ask moderate Muslims living in the midst of these radical Islamists to stand up to them on other issues?” [John also has two great quotes in this post on free speech. Read the whole thing. Jim]

Iowa Voice (Brian) This Is Why We Should Secure The Border First PT II — “You start talking amnesty or guest worker (same thing, as far as I’m concerned) and what do you get? A horde of people trying to get into the country so they can be a part of it.” [Ed Morrisey looks at the same story here. -- "Just as with the amnesty program that Simpson-Mazzoli gave us in 1986, the Senate's plan to track guest workers into American citizenship has had an effect on illegal immigration, but not the one the Senate intended. MS-NBC reports that border crossings have jumped in the past few days as people attempt to get into the country in time to take advantage of this latest flavor of amnesty."]

In the Bullpen (Chad Evans) Ahmadinejad Calls on West to Bow Before Iran — “Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is at it again, this time saying the West “must bow down to the greatness of the Iranian nation.” I beg to differ on Ahmadinejad’s version of the word ‘greatness,’ but let us not let semantics get in the way of a good debate.”

Blogs for Bush (Mark Noonan) The Politics of Global Warming — “Global warming is just another object lesson in why the left must be purged from any sort of political power – they are just too irresponsible, too mean spirited and too wedded to a particular ideology to be rational enough to have a say in how we are governed.”

TMH’s Bacon Bits (DL) What’s Wrong with Illegal Immigration? — “By now there have been over a gazillion words written in reaction to, or support of, illegal immigration. Most of those in support of illegal immigration have conveniently chosen to ignore the most important word –“illegal.” They have focused upon what every red-blooded American respects, supports, and desires – “immigration,” and have deliberately written in a manner to confuse legal with illegal immigration in hopes that Americans will not notice their deception.”