Man is a Political Animal. 

I admit it; I’m terribly behind on my reading.  As I plow through my inbox, I’m finding that there is an awful lot of notice being paid to the leftists who find themselves in an emotional and logical quandary about

Mrs,  Sheehan’s friend at Right Wing News, John Hawkins, has been kind enough to produce a second campaign video for her.  Let us all give Mrs. Sheehan the kind of support she deserves.

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I see that Matt Kibbe makes an excellent point this morning, and gets the Snark of the Day Award:

Remember the Parents Music Resource Center, co-founded by Tipper Gore a few years before her husband ran for president in 1988?

• After my comments of the other night, as regards John McCain, I’m not surprised to find some of the other great minds coming to the same conclusion. Limbaugh, for example.  Limbaugh is technically incorrect, when he says that McCain

Former First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson has died at age 94 due to natural causes:

AUSTIN, Texas -(AP)- Lady Bird Johnson, the former first lady who championed conservation and worked tenaciously for the political career of her husband,

The Useless Toady goes off the deep end assserting that the Forty-Fourth president will inherit an unprecedented mess:

WASHINGTON — The 44th president will move into the Oval Office with an agenda defined in large part by the 43rd president.

In a society that doesn’t lock up dangerously mentally ill people until they have killed someone, and where Congresscritters are talking about the dangers of terrorists obtaining guns, the last thing we need is more victim-disarmament zones.

Clayton Cramer

Captain Ed, this morning, mentions David Brody’s column this morning in which he discusses Fred Thompson’s take on the uselessness of party platforms.

I tend to agree with the basic position that the party platform has become more of a

By way of Billy Beck, I note Tom Bartlett has decided not to do his column anymore.

In the not-too-distant past, this was impossible. If you didn’t write for a newspaper, it was very hard to get out commentary

Allah Pundit, Hot Air, has the John  Gibson interview with Bill Kristol.. Salty language,  Now having been warned, go read and hear.

Posted without comment.link:

(Los Angeles, California) For the first time the leading candidates for the presidency will hold a televised debate devoted solely to LGBT issues.

The one-hour event will be held on August 9 and broadcast on

• Its hot at the moment, being close to 95 outside.  In my office, here it’s 72. (My office, and my server rooms are in the basement of the house, and therefore my computers and routers and so on all stay

Michelle passes on word of an Airman shot in the heart by an anti-war activist.

Go and see the notes, and then come back.

Patrick Poole rightly notes:

If Airman Schrieken had been an abortionist or homosexual, this story would

WASHINGTON — Louisiana Sen. David Vitter apologized Monday for his telephone number showing up on the old phone records of Pamela Martin and Associates, the alleged prostitution ring run in the nation’s capital by Deborah Jeane Palfrey.

“This was a

MADRID (Reuters) – Women in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona, world-famous for its ferocious bull-running festival, are demanding their own version complete with cows instead of bulls.

You know, there are some ideas which are just too bizarre