Don’t F*** with the Aussies

While the Iranians were able to kidnap fifteen British sailors and Marines, the Iranians earlier had been unable to capture Austrialiian sailors.  The BBC:

Iranian naval forces in the Gulf tried to capture an Australian Navy boarding team but

It’s beginning to look like that monstrosity of an immigration bill, is going down in flames.  The Congresscritters are starting to get the message that this is a wildly unpopular bill, and at the moment what we have is a

Admittedly, it’s a slow news day, and therefore, around here a slow blogging day…  And this is the kind of story, that pops up on such a day is this, as if to save us from ourselves.  It’s too bad

WASHINGTON —AP- The Senate late Thursday passed 65-27 an energy bill that imposes an average 35-mpg fuel efficiency standard for cars and sport-utility-vehicles by 2020.

A key compromise late Thursday cleared the way for new fuel efficiency standards for cars,

You know, I’ve been taking some mail of late on the subject of Trent Lott, as you may imagine. Most of it agreeing with me, but some cannot understand for the life of them why I’m upset with his actions. 

Susan Estrich is a cow, that it is to say gender feminist, with a chip on her shoulder.   In her column, “The Dregs Of Duke” she sees fit to bash every male on whiich she can get her 

• I sympathize, Billy, but I have to wonder about the longer term consequences.  Doesn’t the argument you’re making, sound like the argument being presented against security cameras, and traffic light cameras, being placed in public places?  Also, the way the

Bit has not exactly been a member of the Trent Lott Fan Club,   Well maybe, well maybe not, Mark Levin has been reading Bit.   Well maybe just the news.   What ever the case, Mark gives Lott the Full Levin

WASHINGTON —AP-  A federal judge on Thursday upheld former District of Columbia Mayor Marion Barry’s probation in a criminal tax case, meaning the longtime politician will avoid the possibility of prison.

Barry, 71, and now on the D.C. Council, pleaded

COLUMBUS, Ohio —AP- Bob Evans, whose quest for quality sausage to serve the truckers who filled his 12-stool, 24-hour-a-day steakhouse in southeast Ohio led to the creation of a restaurant chain that bears his name, died Thursday, Bob Evans Farms

Cost is a function of supply versus demand.   The Senate democrat energy biil literally does nothing to increse the supply of energy.  However the bill has specific plans to disincentive energy production.  From the Hill:

“These guys made whatever

I mean, didn’t he die recently?

Democrats, I’ll bet, would wish so. The Politico’s Roger Simon notes:

Ralph Nader says he is seriously considering running for president in 2008 because he foresees another Tweedledum-Tweedledee election that offers little real choice

Well, now, there’s something you don’t see every day:

COLUMBIA, S.C. —AP- Police on Wednesday were investigating how a naked couple fell 50 feet from the roof of a downtown office building to their deaths.

The bodies were found on

A Memphis televisoin station breathlessly reports that a man fought-off , and averted, a would be robbery.  Breitbart has the video.

Yet strangely missing from this report is just how this would victim fought-off an attemped armed robbery.  Did an

Uh-oh. How to explain this?

Just 14% of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in Congress.

This 14% Congressional confidence rating is the all-time low for this measure, which Gallup initiated in 1973.  The previous