Let the Conspiracy theories begin...

It was reported yesterday that Enron Cheat-in-Chief, Ken Lay died of a massive coronary in Colorado while on vacation. How convenient. The 64-year old, who faced spending the rest of his life in prison, "died" while on "vacation" in or near Aspen. Oh, come on. Any good conspiracy theorist will tell you he obviously faked his death while in a small community where his family could buy off the authorities, have the old man declared dead and then slip out of the country with his still unrecovered stolen millions while the feds dally about how to collect them. You get a homeless dead guy to stand in, cremate him and no one is the wiser, as long as the Aspen authorities keep quiet. Mark my words. Kenny boy ain't dead.

It's worse than you think...

Salon's War Room sez Iraq is in worse shape than the media (which is biased, doncha know) is telling us. This according to Newsweek reporter, Rod Norland. See the whole story here. The Whitehouse has done a good job of cowing the media and the military is now reviewing stories of reporters that want to embed to weed out those it thinks have been critical, he says. They ask reporters, what their "slant" is, he says. What are they? Political officers like in the good ol' USSR military? Sigh.

Ann Coulter--Plagiarist

Ann's new book is full of unattributed material from other sources, claims the New York Post, that liberal bastion of Rupert Murdoch's Newscorp. See today's War Room on Salon for the full story. Her lame response in her syndicated column was the Post is harassing her (without mentioning the plagiarism charges) and saying it has sunk to "tabloid status." War Room contributor Tim Grieve gently reminds Ann that the Post IS a tabloid. Always had been.