Is Obama’s Tax And Spend Plan Just Playing to His Base?

There is an interesting poll out that confirms this is a center-right nation at least in terms of fiscal responsibility in government.

Conducted in late June, the poll surveyed 800 voters and had a margin of error of plus or

• 90 Billion BBLsof oil under the ice.
• So, Obama went to the wall today. We’re suppsoed to be impressed by the turnout. Perhaps before you get too impressed with how well Germans react to his posturing, perhaps you’ll be

Senate Republicans have finally noticed that gasoline prices are up over four dollars a gallon, and American motorists are feed-up with the high prices.  Manu Raju, Hill, reports Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell is threatening to shut-down the Senate. 

 Thomas Barnett notes:

Spray one apartment and the bugs move over to the next. Wherever there’s the least resistance or the most opportunity, you find them clustered.

The Anbar awakening ruins al Qaeda’s long-term chances in Iraq, and so the

BO has a problem taking a clear position.  Meryl Yourish has no such problem:

Obama is using the Holocaust to score rhetorical points. Mind you, he’s not the only person ever to have done so, but I’m calling bullshit on

I’ll use James’ post over at OTBto spring off of, because I’ve been thinkng about this for a couple of days:

John Edwards has been spotted back together with his alleged mistress, Rielle Hunter

James quotes the story, and

Today’s installment of the Daily Dope comes courtesy of Dean Barnett, Weekly Standard:

How can Obama, he of the “talented, incredible gift of a mind,” be unaware of such basic facts? Then again, in Obama-world, perhaps such a deal

What you see here is something called “Happy Flu, which is an experiment run by Marc Danziger. If you’ve got a blog and you saw this here first, click “Spread It” which will give you a chance to get the

The ever interesting and erudite Michael Barone posted about what the 2010 census is looking like right now in terms of shuffling the electoral votes by adding or subtracting congressional districts due to population changes.  The long and the short

• A .491 Blood Alcohol level? Why is this guy still breathing? And he was Driving?
• Profits at The New York Times are off 82%If I’m Rupert Murdoch I’m watching this one.
• Dolly visits Texas. No deaths, far as

Here is where the Democrats are today, as noted at OTB’s comments section last night. Two different people, both leftists, both speaking about Iraq and the liberation of it’s people: First one:

Certainly when you look at the cost/benefit equation,

Warren Jeffs indited (Associated Press):

ELDORADO, Texas – A grand jury on Tuesday indicted polygamist leader Warren Jeffs and five other members of a sect raided in April

If the People of Texas prevail chalk it up to

Yes, as you can doubtless see, we’re changing the basic layout.

I’ve found a template I can work with, and will be doing that for a few days. Mostly I’m trying to bring the color and font setup over from