Little Demented Dickie Durbin

 Mark Finkelstein, Newsbusters:

DICK DURBIN: Well, I know Michelle, she’s been my friend, a friend of my wife, for many, many years. She can take it. She can handle herself. She’s a very accomplished person. But I will tell

Boortz today looks in some detail and the back and forth over Chiana drilling in the gulf… and goes doumentation heavy on us.  Go and read.

The bottom line: They’re not drilling there now, but could be, because all the

(With apologies to Freddie Mercury)

Barack says “I’m not a Muslim”
And points to Trinity
He’s the one to unite, they say
But what of the racist spree?
Are you ready, Are you ready for this
Are you hanging on

Let’s free all Gitmo detainees…on a vast, deserted, open and contested Afghan battlefield. C-130 gunship circling overhead for security. Give them all a two minute running head start

Via Andy McCarthy, National Review

Works for me.  Any you?

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Floodwaters are raging through the state of Iowa, major roads are closing, cities are being destroyed, politics is at a standstill while people’s lives are being diverted by lost homes, or volunteering to help others.

As the crisis continues, The

After the downright stupid USSC ruling of earlier today, there was something that didn’t sit quite right with me about the ruling from a historical perspective, that I couldn’t quite put my finger on. I couldn’t get it out

• Headlines read: “Two charged with giving Amy Winehouse Drugs” Only two? She must be slipping.
• Sad to see this report of at least 4 dying at the Boy Scout camp last night, on two fronts; The people who were there,

The SCOTUS blog:

In a stunning blow to the Bush Administration in its war-on-terrorism policies, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign nationals held at Guantanamo Bay have a right to pursue habeas challenges to their detention. The Court,

I’m to the point where I can draw no other conclusion than our government isn’t interested in solving the problem of high gasoline prices. The evidence for this goes back well prior to the current wave of price hikes, and

The it which PIckler is full of is the brown stuff produced by a cow with diarrhea, or in Pickler’s case the stuff the which flows from her PC which she attempts to pawn off as if it were reporting,

Trying to play Mister Apolitical is taking it’s toll. The WaPo:

Today’s news that Jim Johnson, one of three people charged with vetting potential vice presidential candidates for Barack Obama, is stepping down from his role illustrates the perils ahead

Edward Lehner can take a long one way hike, and never come back.  I think Arkansas would be a good choice, Samuel Maull, Associated Press

NEW YORK – A judge has ordered New York’s governor, Senate and Assembly to raise

• Sure, I get the picture, Billy. But consider that what you’re suggesting that we do is abdicate the voting process to these morons outright. That’s supposed to help?
• Speaking of voter ignorance, Boortz touches on this today, too.
• Ron

Bluto is working a story that I admit only loosely following. It doesn’t quote cleanly, so I’ll have you go read the thing.

The update gives a nifty tease:

The New York Sun’s editorial board notes that Rockefeller deliberately manipulated

There was an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal the other day, and it made some good points.  Ultimately, it suggested (as many others have) that 6 years after the debate to invade Iraq began, it’s more important to