Sandy Berger’s set to plead guilty to removing classified documents from the National Archives. The crime is a misdemeanor.

It’s a misdemeanor to steal classified documents from the National Archives??!??

The charge of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material is a misdemeanor that carries a maximum sentence of a year in prison and up to a $100,000 fine.

If he actually gets jail time I’ll be shocked. I’m guessing three months suspended sentence and a 20k fine.

Plenty of people, including the Powerline guys have had their share of problems with the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. I know that by criticizing this paper, I run the risk of incurring the wrath of Nick Coleman. So be it.

According to Tongue Tied, the ombudsman at the Star-Trib says a story about the school shooting in Red Lake, MN should not have featured the word “rampage”. Why?

Because it’s insensitive to Native Americans.

“While the technical definition of “rampage” would accurately describe a shooting that leaves 10 dead, it was a poorly chosen word to describe a catastrophe on an Indian reservation,” writes Kate Parry. “Portrayals of ‘rampaging Indians’ fed hateful stereotypes in books and movies for many years. Yet I’ve seen the word used in many media around the country to describe the Red Lake shooting.”

Someone take away the keys to this woman’s word processor. I think she’s had a little too much to drink.

Let’s call it what it is, Kate. This was mass murder. This was not only a rampage, this was a massacre. And if think it’s a good thing to rid your news stories of any factual yet possibly offensive terms, you are an insult to journalism.

After the Nick Coleman stuff and now this, I feel sorry for anybody who has to read this rag.

Thanks for all the comments! It’s been wonderful to check in and see so many familiar faces. I especially love the comment from Jim’s dad. Better get cracking, Jim. Until then Richard… feel free to spoil these twins like they’re the grandbabies your ungrateful offspring has so far denied you!

Just got back from taking the kids to see their new brother and sister. Everyone’s doing fine, although the newborns are still a little too sleepy to try and eat much.

Reaction from the older kids was decidedly mixed. Andrew was incredibly excited. Harrison was nonplussed. Mallory was (I think) a little bummed, and understandably so. She leaves for college in a few months. I think she’s thinking “how much bonding am I really going to have with these kids?

Personally, I think she’s going to be the cool and somewhat mysterious older sister who they will go and visit for the summer as they get older.

Now, a little bit about the births. I’ll tell you two different versions; one from a father’s perspective and one from a guy’s perspective. From a father’s perspective, this was incredibly easy. We walked in the hospital at 5 a.m., and by 9:09 the second baby had been delivered. While the epidural didn’t quite kick in, Elaine seemed to be a lot more comfortable than she did when Andrew was born. I still can’t describe the feeling you get when you look at your child for the first time. I don’t really cry that often, but you just can’t help it when you look at this little tiny person that you helped create. The fact that there are two of them is even more incredible. I could just stare at them for hours, and in fact I plan on doing that tonight when I go back to the hospital.

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Please welcome to planet Earth James Peter and Catherine Marie. I’m holding James and Elaine’s holding Catherine (click on the pictures for larger images).

Here’s baby James (born at 9:04 a.m. weighing 7 pounds 6 ounces).

And here’s baby Catherine (born at 9:09 a.m. weighing 8 pounds even).

More later. I’m going to take a nap now.

We go in to the hospital at 5 a.m. tomorrow (Tuesday). Hopefully I’ll be able to do some posting while I’m there, if only to take my mind off of things.

I’m a bundle of nerves right now, an emotional rollercoaster careening between anticipation and dread. There are moments when I can’t wait to see my son and daughter. There are also moments when I wonder what on earth I was thinking.

I didn’t think I had these thoughts when Andrew was born, but the more I think about it, the more I’m starting to realize I did. I think I was a little more excited when Andrew was born, but I’m pretty sure there was a part of me that was kicking myself in the behind back then as well.

Why am I kicking myself? Insecurity, I suppose. It’s my job to protect and provide for my family, and I just made my job a bit more difficult. It’s stressful to look at five kids and know that they depend on you. Not that it’s any less stressful to look at three, but I already know I can handle taking care of THREE kids. Five is a whole new ballpark.

I’m rambling. I better try and shut down my brain and try to get some sleep. 5 a.m. is coming soon, whether I like it or not.

Via Zero Intelligence comes the story of an uptight Oregon school that wants to digitally manipulate a photo of a soldier to remove his rifle.

I only wish I were kidding.

We could only hope.

It’s the last weekend before the twins arrive, and so (of course) it’s been one of those weekends where the existing kids are driving you crazy. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve thought to myself “What the *bleep* were you thinking???”

Obviously the babies still aren’t here, and I’m starting to think Elaine’s Womb of Steel is going to keep them there until Tuesday. If so, we’ll get up about 4:00 a.m., head to the hospital, and the babies will (hopefully) be born before lunchtime.

In honor of their impending arrival, here’s one final look at Elaine’s belly in all of it’s glory. *D’oh! I decided not to make this picture clickable after all. Sorry for the confusion.

For comparison’s case, here’s Elaine back on New Year’s Day.

And here’s Elaine today.

I promise the next pictures I post will be of some new human beings.

That was a GREAT game! OK State gave the Cats a good workout tonight, they played well. And I have to say when Lucas took that last shot I was just about ready to pee my pants.

Now I get to watch my Cats lose to Illinois on Saturday. Woo!

Just wanted to get this posted before Cam changes my blog password.

Game’s coming in crystal clear for me.

Normally I like living in Virginia. But for the love of Pete, show the flippin’ Oklahoma State game! I don’t want to watch Texas Tech and West Virginia.

Then again, considering there’s 6 minutes left in the first half and Terrance Crawford already has three fouls… maybe I don’t want to watch the OSU game.

You know, if I used this blog to document all the stupidity I ran across every day… I’d never get any work done at all. But this column is such a steaming pile of horse puckey that I had to share it with the rest of you (not that I would share an actual pile of… oh, nevermind).

The Easter Bunny has got to go. Yes, I know what you’re wondering: Whyshouldn’t the holiest day on the Christian calendar be represented by a 7-foot-tall pink rabbit, who may or may not be wearing a vest? Well, for the same reason that people shouldn’t ever marry Charlie Sheen - because it makes no sense.

After all, I’m no theologian, but I’m relatively certain there’s nothing in the New Testament about bunnies. If there were, Mel Gibson would have made sure we knew about it. And given the general overall seriousness of Easter in the Christian scheme of things, it seems all the odder: It’s like if on Yom Kippur, Jews the world over solemnly atoned for their sins, right after lining up to visit a giant purple aardvark named “Kippy.”

Apparently this guy’s never actually celebrated Yom Kipper. Kippy’s the best part.

Seriously, the Easter Bunny is not a symbol of Christianity or Christ. It’s a pagan symbol that’s been adopted and incorporated into a Christian holiday (and really, I’m not even sure that among the particularly religious you’d find much to do with the Easter bunny).

I think this is just one of those columns where the author reaches just a little to far to try and be funny.

Here’s my advice, Mr. Chianca. Eat two Peeps and call me in the morning.

The crazy hours of tax season are really starting to wear on me.

I’m thinking about a career change.

SCOTUS has just refused to hear the Schindler appeal, and those working to save Terri Schiavo have essentially run out of options. There’s really nothing that can be done for her now, except to keep her in your prayers. She will die in a matter of days.

The conduct of her husband in this matter makes me physically ill. Whether he was honoring Terri’s last wishes or not, he’s did so while porking another woman and that’s just disgusting. That seriously damaged his case in the court of public opinion.

If my husband were playing house with another woman while I was in a nursing home, my parents would have hired a hit man regardless of my last wishes. I admire the Schindler’s restraint. I hope they seriously consider a wrongful death lawsuit against Mr. Schiavo. Though their chances of recovering anything are slim - the state of Florida has pretty good asset protection laws. (Why else would OJ Simpson live there?)

I’m not a very religious person, but I do firmly believe that people get what’s coming to them. Even before the final judgement. Karma is a bitch. I hope Mr. Schiavo is ready for what’s coming for him.

The FEC’s proposed rule regulating political speech on the internet is out. Find it here, with commentary at various websites throughout the blogosphere.

We’ll have complete legal reaction this afternoon on Cam and Company, 3-6 Eastern on NRAnews.com.

“All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others” - Napoleon the pig from Animal Farm.

“I believe in purple states — and some are more purple than others.'’ - Howard Dean, Chairman of the DNC speaking at Vanderbuilt University last night.

Is it just a coincidence the Chairman is echoing lines of a Socialist leader from a work of fiction? Probably. Because, well, we all KNOW nobody in the DNC has any Socialist leanings.

Just tickled my funny bone this morning.

My Arizona Wildcats.

Cam’s Oklahoma State Cowboys.

A trip to the Elite Eight on the line Thursday night.

I don’t like to watch grown men cry. But something tells me I might enjoy it Thursday.

Well, heck. I might have to get HBO to watch this.

I’ll say one thing about Air America. I was wrong about its staying power. They’re still on the air and the election is over. Heck, even the evil conservative Clear Channel is putting them on the air in some markets.

It still doesn’t make it good radio, of course. But it is still around, and I didn’t think it would be.

I’m swamped with tax season right now, but I am captivated by the Terri Schiavo goings on. It’s an interesting legal case to say the least. But more importantly, this case has effected me on a personal level.

I don’t want to rehash all that’s happened to this point - everyone’s been talking about it. Go check out The Corner if you need some constructive debate on the case. I’ve been following it all. But there’s something I can’t let go of.

Is it possible that if Terri truly wanted to die, she would have already?

You hear about “the will to live” all the time in medicine. The cases where there is no medical hope, but the patient overcomes their illness out of sheer determination to live. Isn’t it then conceivable there is a “will to die”?

If Terri truly didn’t want to live in her current state, would she have embraced the will to die?

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Whenever I read stories like this, it makes me wish I had followed my dream and become an archaeologist.

Of course, talk show host isn’t a bad gig either…

… never dilates, or something like that.

It’s been a weekend of hoping, waiting, and cleaning. The lovely bride’s had a few contractions, but nothing serious. Hopefully this week we will see these twins.

So says Chris Muir and Day by Day.

Arrggh.

This is as simple as I can make it. Captain Ed says that Reid’s bill is better than nothing, and he’s right. But the choice isn’t between Reid’s bill and nothing. There are a number of bills related to campaign finance reform before Congress right now, and Reid’s is one of the worst (right behind McCain and Feingold’s 527 Reform Act).

The 527 Fairness Act goes much further than Reid’s bill. It has bipartisan support in the House (the authors are Rep. Pence (R) and Rep. Wynn (D)). It can pass Congress, and I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that Harry Reid knows it. Harry Reid voted for BCRA. He’s never been an outspoken opponent of campaign finance reform. So why would he start defending the blogs?

Perhaps because campaign finance reform could suffer a big defeat this year.

Thanks to the work of Ryan Sager, we know that campaign finance reform was built on a lie. Why bloggers would continue to support that lie, even in the interest of self-preservation is beyond me.

It’s conceivable that Congress would pass both Reid’s bill and the 527 Fairness Act. And I’ll be awfully happy if they do. But chances are Congress will pass only one bill dealing with campaign finance. Do you want it to be the one that protects bloggers only, or do you want it to be the one that restores political speech to millions of other Americans?

I’ll have much more on this with Marshall Manson from the Center for Individual Freedom on Monday’s Cam and Company at NRAnews.com. Hope you can tune in.

Ed Morrissey from Captain’s Quarters is praising Harry Reid for trying to keep the internet off limits to McCain/Feingold. And sure, it’s nice. But I really hope the bloggers don’t turn into the mainstream media on this issue.

Remember, when McCain/Feingold was first passed, you had groups as disparate as the NRA and the ACLU on the same side, fighting against the law. And the mainstream media stood idly by. They had an exemption. It wasn’t their fight.

McCain/Feingold is an abomination. It’s a perversion of the 1st Amendment, and most bloggers know it. So are bloggers going to be satisfied as long as they don’t have to be directly affected?

With all due respect to Captain Ed… this bill is an attempt to buy off the blogs. If you want to support legislation, try the 527 Fairness Act or the First Amendment Restoration Act.

The media didn’t speak out against McCain/Feingold because they were bribed with the exemption (and millions of dollars in funding… depending on the media outlet). Will the bloggers fall silent if they get their bribe as well?

Remember, the problem with McCain/Feingold isn’t that a judge is now requiring the FEC to regulate the internet. The problem with McCain/Feingold is McCain/Feingold. To accept this compromise is to accept the premise of the original bill… a bill we now know was the response to a manufactured controversy.

There are two bills that would gut McCain/Feingold. Those are the bills the bloggers need to support… not Senator Reid’s piece of legislation.