A Tale of Two Ambushs

In a firefight, superior firepower prevails, C.J. Chivers, New York Times;

An American platoon surprised an armed Taliban column on a forested ridgeline at night, and killed at least 13 insurgents, and perhaps many more, with rifles, machine guns,

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This is the Friday Fish Fry Edition.

• (Chuckle) Insty notes Micheal Graham:
  

  MICHAEL GRAHAM: Janet Napolitano

You just knew someone would do this eventually.

Washington Times:

Liberal actress and political activist Janeane Garofalo, in all seriousness, said activists who attended tea parties are racists with dysfunctional brains in a recent prime-time television appearance.

“Let’s be very

Matthew Lee, Associated Press, is no Jan Schakowsky and is unable to shallow all of Mrs. Clinton’s delusions:

WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday the Obama administration will take the unusual step of trying to

So where is this much promised smart diplomcay the Obama administration has been promising. Al Jazeera:

The United States has said it would welcome dialogue with Iran but has not dropped its demand for it to halt uranium enrichment

Funny, we just don’t seem have hair stylists like Olga, Carl Schreck, Crime Watch:

In what is either the weirdest Russian crime story of the year so far or a new low in yellow crime journalism, a female hair

Representative  Jan Schakowsky (Illinois – Nine.)  is the Bitsblog’s Whore of the Day, and  darn fugly one at that.   If Schakowsky is going to call us despicable,  she might well have a reason.  Eric Zimmermann, Hill:

“The

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This is the “Day After” edition.

So many things went on yesterday, I can’t begin to discuss them all. An eventful day,

From the Mailbag:

In Stuttgart, Germany, a court judge must decide on a case of honorable intentions in a situation where a man hired his neighbor to get his wife pregnant.

It seems that Demetrius Soupolos, 29, and his former

Color this blogger stunned.    I come to praise the Frogs, a/k/a the Frencn.    The French Navy is acting with an audacity once reserved for the British  Royal  Navy and the United States Navy, McClatchy .

MOMBASA, Kenya – On another

By way of  TV By The Numbers here’s the ratings of the cable news orgs who covered the Tea Parties yesterday:

Live + Same Day Cable News Daily Ratings for April 14, 2009

P2+ Total Day
FNC – 1,455,000 viewers

For all you, like me, who think that Barack Obama lives in own private alternative universe, which I call Obamaland, we now have strong collaborating evidence.    From Gateway Pundit, “‘President Obama Says He Is “Unaware of Tea Parties””.    

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Lots going on, today.  I’m not stupid enough to try and grab it all, but here’s

I noted this in passing before leaving for work this morning, on Fox News, in an article apparently originating on the Gannett wires. and I’ve since confirmed it with local sources down in Binghamton, New York :

A social

Just how dumb is Obama?  We can add another subject to the long and growing list of which the Presidunce is flat out ignorant, economics, Robert J Samuelson, via Karl Patterico’s Pontifications:

Since the dawn of the Industrial Age,