Peter Boyle, RIP Aged 71

Peter Boyle,has died at age 71.

 A good serious actor AND a sense of humor? A hard combo to beat.

Alexander Bolton, over at The Hill; (In this case, an ironic name)…

Burns Strider, one of the Democratic Party’s leading strategists on winning over evangelicals and other values-driven voters, will join Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) as she prepares

I’m not much of a television watcher anymore.  I’ll watch football and poker, cartoons with the little one, and if I am in the mood I might flip through the channels and watch Discovery, Speed or the History (or Military)

I’d like to say this is unbelievable, but the problem is that it’s quite believable… and exactly as expected.

WASHINGTON —London Times- He is expected to have an acute understanding of terrorist groups and their threats to American interests. But

Remember that GOP conference call, back in 1996 run by, among other people Newt Gingrich? Remember how it had been given to the Democrats and suddenly ended up on the air?

Seattle, Wa- KNDO WASHINGTON A House ethics panel says

Cathy Sieipp can use some good thoughts. It’s totally not unexpected, but she’s going through a rough patch just now in her fight with cancer.  Pray em if you got ’em, folks.  If you don’t, at least send her some

It’s nice to see that we started getting notice from the search engines.  The global reports that my “Gopher” system runs every night, are starting to tell me that there are a number of links in Google, already, and my

I quess it only would be natural for an education major to expect that  high expectations are somehow unnatural and should be avoided.   After all low expectations are what kept Abraham Lincoln an uneducated farm boy.   Low expectation are how

Cow farts.

No, really… that’s the claim.

Hume:

A report by the United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organization says cattle and other livestock cause more greenhouse gases than cars, planes, and all other forms of transportation put together. Britain’s Independent

I had a problem with Thomas Sowell’s column.   It was difficult to pick which paragraph to quote.

To be blunt, I find the reasoning the Supreme Court’s 1954 decision, “Brown v. Board of Education to be absurd.   In 1954, many

Byron York over at The Corner raises an interesting issue:

I have a new story up about reports that U.S. intelligence tapped Princess Diana’s phones in 1997.  It’s tempting to dismiss such accounts, especially given the sensational nature of some

Billy;

Message received.

William Jefferson’s re-election in Lousiana run-off has complicated life for Mrs. Pelosi.   Having campaigned on a promise to drain the republican swamp, Mrs.. Pelosi finds herself surrounded by democrat allegators.

For The Hill, Alexander Bolton, reports “CBC wants

Recently, via e-mail, I got a note from a new reader. He wondered, in quiet tones, what the future of this site will be, given the political outcome in the election just recently.

I have to admit I haven’t thought

WASHINGTON — The sterile, confused lame-duck session of the Republican-controlled 109th Congress ended with a quiet victory by reformers that staved off an estimated 10,000 earmarks. But it could not be called a farewell to pork. Last Thursday, as the