US to Pay $3.4bn to Settle Native Americans Land Case

“The US government has agreed to pay $3.4bn (£2.1bn) to settle a long-running case over Native American land.  The Cobell case, filed in 1996, alleged the government had mismanaged billions of dollars in income from natural resources on Native American

Biology is not a mortal sin.    We can not be held to account over those actions for which we have no control.   I that light, I reject the Jimmy Carter standard that it is a sin to have lust in

Man bite dog, and I link to Barbara Walter    Jenny Sanford on her husband chronic infidelity, from Brad Larosa and Lauren Sher, ABC News:

“It’s been a crazy year. … Certainly his actions hurt me, and they caused consequences

• MESSAGE TO RICK SANTORUM: Go home. You’re neither wanted nor needed. Particularly, as POTUS.
• ACORN: NO ILLEGALITY? The Politico:
  

  An outside review of the beleaguered community group ACORN has found “serious management challenges,” but no pattern of illegal activity.

  The

Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the sphere… The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble

I hear it’s cold… VERY cold in Montanna.  So, in honor of their freezing their backsides off up there, I’ll post this

I’ve been saying for years that GOP candidates are successful in elections in direct and unalterable relationship to how conservative they are. Rasmussen gives us confirmation:

Running under the Tea Party brand may be better in congressional races than being

This is rich….

Executives at National Public Radio recently asked the network’s top political correspondent, Mara Liasson, to reconsider her regular appearances on Fox News because of what they perceived as the network’s political bias, two sources familiar with the

www.JonesToTheGrindstone.com

Planting a seed of doubt in someone’s head is a very powerful tool of manipulation.The sole motive can be to upset another person for one’s own devilish amusement. Watching the seed

Shades of Jack Webb, just the facts ma’am, nothing but the facts.  Carly Fiorina discusses the impact of Obamacare on women,video:

Back at you, Barack Obama, Dirty Harry Reid and Mrs. Pelosi.

Hat tip:  Kathryn Jean Lopze, National Review.

Some parishioners in the Church of Obama discovered last week that their spiritual leader is a false prophet.

Dana Milbank: Washington Post.

G. D. Maxwell, Pique:

Now, now, let’s not get too uppity here. We need to be understanding. We need to be unified. We need to be supportive. We need to be patient. We need to pretend everything’s hunky-dory. We

On the road today, along the southeastern shore of Lake Erie. We’re trying to do some rail photography.  I’ll post some of what we manage to grab when we get home tonight.

From Politiken.dk this morning:

As the world prepares to converge on Copenhagen for the COP15 Climate Summit, Denmark’s Speaker of Parliament has expressed serious doubts as to the way in which the climate debate has developed.
“The problem is that

Der Spiegel is reporting:

Copenhagen Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard sent postcards to city hotels warning summit guests not to patronize Danish sex workers during the upcoming conference. Now, the prostitutes have struck back, offering free sex to anyone who produces one

Nice Deb asks:

Why Does Obama Have A Known Pervert For His “Safe Schools” Czar?

Jim Hoft Gateway Pundit, has the bill of goods on Barack Obama pedophile pervert in the White House (graphic):

Breaking: Obama’s “Safe Schools Czar”