Snark of the Day:Don Surber

Surber, this morning… and I’ll quote it at length because it’s that good…

Our American troops are risking their lives in a war to fight al-Qaeda — a war they are winning — a war that Harry Reid voted

From the Daily Telegraph(UK):

ONLY one week after Live Earth, Al Gore’s green credentials slipped while hosting his daughter’s wedding in Beverly Hills.

Gore and his guests at the weekend ceremony dined on Chilean sea bass – arguably one

A follow-on to my Greenwald post of yesterday… read James Joyner’s updated comments which he placed in a new thread, over at OTB… and then read the comments section… and pay particular attention to my references to the double

• When I saw a headline like:The Hand That Controls the Sock Puppet Could Get Slapped, in the New York Times, I must admit that my immediate thought was that Gang Greenwald was finally going to get his comeuppance.  Then

Lying Lizzy, a.k.a. Mrs John Edwards, whines about Ann Coulter, but get a load of this broadside, from Salon:

No, I don’t. I wind up talking about this a lot. My job as the mother of daughters is to

Increasingly, I find myself wondering why anyone takes Glenn Greenwald seriously anymore. The complaints we see from Greenwald when he starts in about embarrassing stories take on an attitude of surrealism. Example:

…our broken, petty media’s “coverage” of this “story”

Ayaan Hirsi Ali goes On the Map with Avi Lewis, and serves Lewis’s head on platter to him on his own show.  Lewis was born into freedom, and does not appreciate it   Hirsi Ali was not born into freedom

Keith Ellison has given a new dimension to moonbattiness.  Ellison proves you don’t have to a either a white male, Ron Paul, or Dennis Kuchinich, or a black female, Cynthia McKinney to be a full raving moonbat.

Commentary from, Pat

Washington, D.C. (July 16)-Veterans of the Iraq War from across the United States will be on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, July 17, to urge Senators to support the mission in Iraq and to wait until General Petraeus reports to

It turns out that the only problem with my earlier comments about North Korea … either yesterday or the day before, in the Ramble was that I wasn’t being cynical enough.

WASHINGTON —AP- The State Department said Monday that what

So what am I confronted with this morning, as frontpage news?  The idea that Joe Wilson, has endorsed Hillary Clinton for president.

Well, forgive the hell out of me, but really now, is anybody surprised by this?  Here is

So, Dingy Harry Reid is trying a publicity stint. Fox’s Major Garrett:

Speaking on the Senate floor, Reid said Iraq is the most important issue facing the United States and attempts to block legislation calling for troops to be withdrawn

As you may or may not already be aware, members of the Watcher’s Council hold a vote every week on what they consider to be the most link-worthy pieces of writing around…  per the Watcher’s instructions, I am submitting

It’s warm around here again, and it’s been humid, and raining.  So I find myself in my office catching up on my reading.  Here’s some thoughts about what I found…

• Just about everybody on the planet has made comment about

Peter Brown, writes for Real Clear Politics:

When one political party tries to influence the other’s presidential primary race the reasonable assumption is that someone is trying to stop the nomination of a candidate that party does not want