Attack of the Ants

It was a typical spring morning in the Pierce household. We all went downstairs to the kitchen to have a little breakfast. I was getting cereal boxes out of the pantry when I heard the screams. Savannah and Xander started pointing at all the ants crawling along our kitchen wall and half-wall divider and Noah was shouting, "EWWW! EWWW!" Next thing I know, both my boys have toy hammers in their hands and are taking out as many ants as they can. It's nice to know that my sons were prepared for the battle and didn't hesitate when we were attacked.


I have been trying for weeks to capture Noah's face when he says the word "Ewww" because it is so dang cute. Success at last!


And now for my political contribution of the day: this transcript came Tuesday from Fox News Contributor Brit Hume who I really like.

"There is good reason to believe that President Obama did not want the renewal of the bitter controversy over CIA interrogation techniques that is now upon us.
He may have a deep and abiding belief in the ability of an improved national image not to mention his own sparkling image to make us safer. But he seems aware that reopening these old wounds will further poison the political atmosphere here at home and deepen the divisions he was elected to mend.
He must also be aware that an intelligence community made timid by the fear of being investigated in the calm of the future for actions taken in an emergency of the present will not make us safer. He must have thought that when he went against the advice of his intelligence advisers and released those legal memos detailing the CIA rough stuff after 9/11, that would be enough. His base on the left would be placated and a new inquisition into intelligence methods would be avoided.
But the left and its many adherents in his party were not placated. And when two of his top aides said on Sunday and Monday that there would be no prosecutions of either intelligence agents who relied on those legal memos or of the Bush administration lawyers who wrote them, the pressure mounted. Overnight: presto-chango. As unambiguous a flip-flop as you'll ever see, raising anew the question of whether this president will ever buck his political base.

— Brit Hume