Sgt. Hook is back, after an extended hiatus from blogging. Watching the news early this morning, he had this to say:

If I had to pick a headline that summed it all up it might read, SUNNIS VOTE ‘NO’ IN LARGE NUMBERS. It just seems to me that almost all of the MSM are impatiently waiting for the results of the election to determine success or failure so that they can stand in front of the burning wreckage of the next car bomb and report, “See, I told you the American experiment in Iraq would fail.” Hello McFly, regardless of whether the draft constitution is confirmed by the votes of the millions of Iraqi’s who went to the polls yesterday, the “experiment” was a resounding success. My God, in spite of the dangers to their lives, the people participated in the shaping of their country’s future. Sounds like democracy to me, but I’m no way near as educated as our esteemed press corps.

Jay Tea wonders …

They started tagging the city with the rallying cry “KILL A YUPPIE.”

I’m glad he’s been arrested, but I have one niggling question:

Why isn’t he being charged with a hate crime?

He freely admits he was calling for the murder of people based solely on their economic and social class. In my book, that qualifies as a hate crime, as is commonly defined.

John over at Powerline references two theories about why Miller testified now.

We and others have offered two theories as to what changed, so that Miller finally felt free to testify before Fitzgerald’s grand jury. The first theory is that she had multiple sources for her knowledge of Plame’s identity, and was protecting one of those other sources. Initially, Fitzgerald had refused to agree to question her only about Libby. The second theory is that Miller was worried about being questioned about matters completely extraneous to the Plame investigation. The leading candidate for such a matter was a controversial episode in which Miller called an Islamic charity that was about to be raided as a terrorist front, and tipped them off to the impending raid. That incident was also under investigation, also by Fitzgerald.

Of course, there’s a third theory. She was a publicity hog who wanted to obtain a book deal.

[Taking a Sunday Drive…]