The Effects of Socialism on the Environment

Alex Knapp at OTB this morning, notes that China’s pollution situation isn’t good:

China’s massive Yangtze river, a lifeline for tens of millions of people, is seriously polluted and the damage is almost irreversible, a state-run newspaper said Monday.

Just how sane are democrats?  Pamela Leavey, Democratic Daily, discusses John Kerry’s hints of running in Aught Eight.   First, this is where Leavey makes some sense:

The feel I get whenever I hear him talk about endorsing anyone for

In a clear sign of its intent to reign in dissident American media personalities, and their growing influence in American culture, US War Leaders this past week launched an unprecedented attack upon one of their most politically ‘connected’, and legendary,

Nobody else has bothered to mention this, so I will.

Today in history, the Titanic sank.

Today in history, the Civil war started

Today in history, President Lincoln died.

Today is the birthday of Writer-producer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason

And today in

I raised the issue the other day that now that Imus is out of the way, what else do the purveyors of all that’s decent go after?

Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Bill O’Reilly, Glenn Beck, Neal

Sad news from NR:

Patricia Aldyn Austin Taylor Buckley — Pat Buckley, as so many knew her, WFB’s beloved — died last night at Stamford Hospital in Connecticut.

She died of septic poisoning following a vascular operation on her left

HONOLULU -AP- Legendary crooner Don Ho, who entertained tourists for decades wearing raspberry-tinted sunglasses and singing the catchy signature tune “Tiny Bubbles,” has died. He was 76.

He died Saturday morning of heart failure, publicist Donna Jung said.

From all

Next time, read the fine print.

Glenn Reynolds’, Instapundit, comment on this “heated exchange.”

More, Ed Morrissey, Captain’s Quarters.

Hillary Clinton has had a difficult conundrum facing her ever since the beginning of her presidential campaign.

Fred Thompson does it again; Shows us exactly the way he thinks… and his prospects continue to rise:

Treasury statistics show that tax revenues have soared and the budget deficit has been shrinking faster than even the optimists projected.

That storm finally showed up.

Of course, it’s mostly to the east of us, now, as you see… (Drill it for full size)  It’s going down just as I anticipated it would be.  If I’m not mistaken I predicted in

Was Don Imus’s great crime uttering a phrase common to [c]rap music, or just offending Media Matters, a front group for Mrs. Clinton?   It appears to be the latter.  It was Media Matters, and not Imus’ audience, which touched off

So, with Don Imus no longer on the airwaves, the logical question to ask is “what’s next?”  What all of this is examined, twenty years from now, the major mistake that Imus made will be determined as giving Sharpton credibility

You may be shocked to know, that I am not George Gallop and I am not a pollster.  I can’t conduct a nationwide poll.   I did conduct an unscientific poll this morning.   I am not even Dick Morris, who claims

The toxicity of Mr. Sulzberger’s remarks, the innocence of his targets, and his refusal to put down the shovel — he dug himself deeper just about every time he published his paper

A description of the New York Times treatment

The Music: Gordon Lightfoot’s “Endless Wire”

This would be what, his 13th album? I think so, anyway. Weird, given I’m writing this on April the 13th.

Anyway, it was recorded at Eastern Sound in nearby Toronto, in November of 77,