Via Drudge and practically everyone else.

News Corp. Cancels O.J. Simpson Book and TV Special

News Corp., the parent company of book publisher HarperCollins and the FOX network, has canceled publication of the O.J. Simpson book and television special "If I Did It."

"I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project," said Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. chairman. "We are sorry for any pain that this has caused the families of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson."

The jerk will likely still get his money, a contract being what it is and all that, but thanks God we are spared the disgusting display on primetime. 

See more at Hot Air, Sister Toldjah and Michelle Malkin

Note:  I don't particularly like Ron Goldman's father Fred.  But in this case he was right, and he has the country on his side at http://www.dontpayoj.com/.

Thats a line from a great Korean War film called The Bridges at Toko-Ri. 

Whenever I read an account (like Black Hawk Down, also an excellent film adaptation) of the deeds and heroism of our armed forces, that same line goes through my mind.

With Rep. Charlie Rangel AGAIN talking about reinstating a draft, I found myself wondering where we are getting our recruits today.  In Rep. Rangels world, they are NOT the children of weathly, white america:

"There's no question in my mind that this president and this administration would never have invaded Iraq, especially on the flimsy evidence that was presented to the Congress, if indeed we had a draft and members of Congress and the administration thought that their kids from their communities would be placed in harm's way."

King county is still targeting 2007 or 2008 for the switchover to all mail voting. They claim that this will make elections more secure and trustworthy. I’m worried that it will open up more potential for fraud. From the Seattle PI comes an article about the work still to be done. Here’s a highlight regarding vote-by-mail.

Consider the blue bags.

Each polling place is issued a canvas duffel for loading up with absentee ballots dropped off at the polls, before the ballots are transported to a counting center. Procedures call for zipping the bag shut, locking it with a numbered seal and then filling out and signing a packing slip.

But at many polls Nov. 7, the ballots wouldn’t all fit in the bag. So workers improvised: They taped bulging, unzipped bags to hold them together, or they stuffed excess ballots into plastic bags. Some packing slips weren’t signed. One bag was left in a worker’s car overnight.