Nightly Ramble: A Quick Ramble Before Dissecting the SOTU

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OK, Yeah, I know. the state of the Union address. As you read this, I’m straining my fingers to get that promised point by

I’ll have a point by point rebuttal on the State of the Union speech posted sometime tonight.
I’m working on it just now, and will likely end up finishing it sometime after dinner, eastern time.

I’ve never seen a point

Clayton Cramer, Idaho Statesman:

Remember back in February 2008 when President Obama came to Boise and spoke at a big rally? He made a big point of saying, “I won’t take away your guns,” because those nasty, dishonest Republicans

Giving up, falling asleep. I’ll break out the text of the speeches tomorrow

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• Lost in space…. errr… ocean: This one’s  rather simple, Bruce… If it had made it to space, and it’s data ever made

Today’s BitsBlog SNARK OF THE DAY award goes to an un-named reader of Mark Steyn.

Re my item below on the Illinois Senate’s proposed legislation on the planetary status of Pluto, a reader says:

I think it’s brilliant. But in

Ed Morrisssey, Hot Air, writes:

When discussing war crimes during World War II, two events usually get thrown out as indictments of the Allies: dropping atomic weapons on the Japanese and the raid of Dresden, in which 25,000 people

The San Francisco Chronicle reports on an attempted mugging gone terribly awry:

(02-20) 11:29 PST OAKLAND — A 23-year-old visitor from the East Coast had just gotten money from an ATM when he told his friend on a cell phone

Bertha Lewis, ACORN:

Housing is a right.

See the video:

Read the transcript, via Steve Gilbert, Sweetness & Light.

No Ms Lewis, housing is not a right.  Housing is a commodity, to wit a product of human endeavor. 

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It’s the Corner Store edition. Just a few quick items. In, and out.

• Obama to be upstatged: As you likely already know, Barack

Christopher Buckley writes today:

It’s tricky, trying to channel your father’s ghost. Hamlet tried it. I think I won’t. But I miss WFB’s takes on—everything that’s going on. Often, I’d find myself flailing aimlessly or circularly about some issue, trying

ABC 2 News, Baltimore, MD:

Some community activists could face criminal charges after breaking into a home in Southeast Baltimore.

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After snapping a lock with bolt cutters, ACORN member Louis Beverly told supporters “this is our house now

Alan Reynolds, New York Post, writes of the Foreclosure Five states:

When President Obama discusses his $275 billion mortgage bailout, he talks as if it was a national problem, caused by a national decline in home prices. “We must

Michelle is calling it a Tea Party.   William A. Jacobson, Legal Insurrection, offers another analogy:

This movement can succeed if it does not stop at protest and includes changes in economic behavior. Obama’s redistributive plans require higher taxation,

The loyalists to the communist ideal, the ones who have never given up hope about it being the salvation of Mankind,  have forever tried to convince the rest of us that Communism would work if we’d just done it right.