Nightly Ramble:tax And Spend, More

It’s been a while since I’ve done any single issue Nightly Ramble. A couple months, I believe. This won’t be one of them, but… let’s try it this way, just once and see how the format works. A longer

Hillary Clinton has now joined John McCain in proposing the most irresponsible policy idea of the year—an idea that actually could aid the terrorists. What’s worse, both of them know that suspending the federal gas tax this summer is a

George A. Custer: The original Arrow Shirt Model

Ya can’t make this stuff up:

INDIANAPOLIS —(McClatchy NS)  It’s a story Hillary Clinton loves to tell, about how the Chinese government bought a good American company in Indiana, laid off all its workers and moved its critical defense technology

WASHINGTON (AP) — The bruised economy limped through the first quarter, growing at just a 0.6 percent pace as housing and credit problems forced people and businesses alike to hunker down.

The country’s economic growth during January through March was

Did you see the story about the prisoner in an Arkansas jail suing the county because he’s lost over 100lbs while in jail?

Seems to me the Prisoner owes the state a rather large sum of dollars, or at least

Did anyone notice the two goons that were standing behind Reverend Jeremiah Wright as he delivered his speech at the national press club?  Did they looked familiar at all to you?

They should.  They were from the Nation of Islam. 

Karl Rove’s advice to BO, via Jeralyn, Talk Left:

When you’re on the defense, as with Rev. Wright, choose one explanation and stick to it.

BO circa March 18, via Mark Silva, Swamp:

“I can no more disown

• I note by way of John Miller that the editor of the Boston Herald keeps a portrait of Che Guevara on his wall. Oh, these art lovers, huh? I suppose that the editor’s political leanings have nothing to do with

One Wright makes two wrongs

The Reverend Jeremiah Wright now says he was quoting the Iraqi ambassador when he made his famous “chickens are coming home to roost” comments after the September 11 attacks.

Apparently he meant the U.S. ambassador to Iraq because during that

If Women Ran The World Mankind would still be living in caves, albeit with really, really fancy curtains;

Kate McMillan, Small Dead Animals

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The North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources has releases a state report on the Bakken shale formation in North Dakota    The currentlly recoverable portion of the Bakken formation represents about ten percent of known domestic reserves.   That is just over

Word from Scott Fybush, this monring, that Big Ron O’Brien has passed on.  Ron was a great one, and held court at some of the great stations of the country. I recall catching his show several times on WCFL,

You know, Barack Obama’s involvement with Bill Ayers ought to be enough for every reasonable person to heave them both over the metaphorical side.  That’s bad enough.

If I were Obama, though, I would be wishing hard for the Revvin’