Around the Blogosphere Today

Odds and ends from around the blogosphere collected for your weekend reading pleasure:

In "Nothing to See Here, Move Along" (subject link), Michelle Malkin turns up the news that the probe of the JFK plot is widening into an international manhunt, with suspects including an Al Qaeda fugitive. Which makes the New York Times' insistence that the plot was a non-story deserving to be buried on Page 30 look increasingly a) foolish, b) politically motivated, or c) both.

From Minneapolis to Boston, Part Two: A wonderful -- and largely ignored -- story of heroism on a Northwest Airlines flight.

Calif. Healthcare Overhaul Moves Forward: Arnold's plan to take over healthcare marches forward in the state legislature, but his attempt to label the new taxes of doctors, hospitals, and others "fees" is failing: the nonpartisan legislative counsel's office says the fees are taxes. This means Arnold's plan will need 2/3 of the legislature to pass, rather than a simple majority.

Out of the Shadows: NRO's editors write, "Leaders of both parties had agreed on an immigration plan, and everyone they knew was on board. They seemed confident that they could marginalize their opponents, caricaturing them as bigots and silencing them in Congress. So what happened? What happened is that the American people came out of the shadows..." NRO editor Kathryn Jean Lopez's thoughts on President Bush and conservatives are also worth a read.

Emeril Lagasse Named Grand Marshal of Rose Parade: Bam! Emeril will kick it up a notch on January 1st, 2008.

Iowa, O! Iowa: The political landscape may be changing forever, as leading candidates decide to skip Iowa's straw poll this summer. With big primaries in California and Florida frontloaded to early in 2008, is the importance of Iowa and New Hampshire in the primary process forever altered?

Ocean's 13 is 'Grand' Theft: Sounds fun, hope to see it soon.