Breakfast Scramble

Local weather:  Twenty-four degrees that feels like thirteen. 

As the culture coarsens:

LEESBURG, Va. – (Fox News)-A children’s book about two male penguins that hatch a chick together has been pulled from school library shelves in Loudoun County,

A call to action from Michelle:

Erick at RedState puts out a call to those of you in the D.C. area who are up for a party with John Murtha. Pig costumes preferred, but optional:

Mark your calendar for February

HAVANA -(AP)- An ailing Fidel Castro resigned as Cuba’s president Tuesday after nearly a half-century in power, saying he will not accept a new term when the new parliament meets Sunday.”I will not aspire to nor accept – I repeat,

Hume on Fox, last night:

Obama’s voting totals during the New York primary earlier this month were vastly under-recorded in several New York City districts. The New York Post reports the Board of Elections says in nearly 80 districts

We continue to grow.

I’ve just added news feeds from NOAA to BitsBlog’s Newsroom. The button to get to the newsroom is at the top of every page.

A President’s Day tribute to our nation’s three worst presidents,  Ari K Kaufman, American Thinker:

Presidents Day has taken a deep back seat these days on our holiday calendar to the point that not only do schools go on

• James Joyner notes the passage of another milestone… 24 million. He’s up to a million hits per month, now. I suppose this to be a good bench test for WordPress. Congrats from here, James.
• With the new job, my posting

If Obama makes it to the Nomination, pay particular attention to who his choice for VP is… it may weigh heavy on our future, if these reports are even nearly accurate.

Today’s one of those weird days where I spend a good deal of time deep in the bowels of the blog’s website, tending little odd jobs that have been needful for some weeks, and also adding a large amount of

Barack Obama may not be much of thinker.   Notice first how Obama plagiarized Duval Patrick.   Then note how Obama completely avoids Patrick’s John Kennedy quote.    Kennedy challenged Americans and the World. 

Kennedy video:

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Duval Patrick video:

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Barack Obama

Beef Recall: 

LOS ANGELES – (AP)-The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Sunday recalled 143 million pounds of frozen beef from a Southern California slaughterhouse that is being investigated for mistreating cattle.

Danish Riots:

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Bands

SWAMP STOMPER ALERT

Chris Bowers, all around Knuckle-Dragger, is busy spreading rumors that Harry Reid is to resign as Majority leader.

OK, in reality, I don’t trust this at all… given his inability to admit failure, I see no reason

Blue Crab Blvd is running a link to Evan Thomas, this morning, who in Gauius’ words:

….describes the complicated relationship between the media and the Clintons. In fact, the relationship between the press and any president or presidential candidate. Thomas

Says Fellow Swamp Stomper, the Dread Pundit Bluto:

Dr. Lyle Rossiter says that liberals are actually insane:

“Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded,” says

Christine Stansell et al, writes, in the Puffington Post:

We are women who support Hillary Clinton for the presidency of the United States. We do so because we believe that she will be the best president for the entire