Roman Holiday

A single picture can be worth more than a NGO  produced 2:47 video.  First the video:

Hat tip video:  News Junkie

Now for the picture:

Hat tip photo:   Darleen Click, Protein Wisdom.

Suffice to say, the chicklette is part

Ya know, there are times when you just have to let it out, and laugh in their faces.

WASHINGTON (CNN) – Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter called his fellow Democrat, Rep. Joe Sestak, a “flagrant hypocrite” and accused his rival of

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Kind of a short one today… doing heavy lifting at work these last few days.

• Obama’s tax

Enough of the Wacko Jacko mania,  Mrs. Pelosi puts an end to the nonsesee of a House resolution, honoring the departed Michael Jackson, from Susan Davis, Wall Street Journal:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made it clear today that she

I’m more than a little annoyed at what I find in the LA Times Op-Ed section this morning.

The two cases were the latest skirmishes in the broader conservative war to reframe the way Americans view the issue of race.

The news is not all Wacko Jacko, all the time, from Karen Araize, NBC Philadelphia:

More than 60 campers from Northeast Philadelphia were turned away from a private swim club and left to wonder if their race was the

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•  The Sotomayor Tax Dodge: It appears that we’re going to ahve something added to

Great piece at NRO this morning, from David Kahane:

If you had any sense, you would start using our tactics against us. After all, you have a few lawyers on your side. Sue us. File frivolous ethics complaints against all

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• So, the Gloved One is now the Buried One. Someone, and I don’t know who, on Twitter last

Wacko Jacko, Michael Jackson; is to buried today    Jammie Wearing Fool notes the media Wacko Jacko overloadf, ”It Was An Orgy of Glorification‘

After the first day or so of the Michael Jackson coverage I felt the same

Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit, opines:

SO, TECHNICALLY, IT WOULD BE WRONG TO CALL THE PLAN “SOPHOMORIC:” “In the depths of the cold war, in 1983, a senior at Columbia University wrote in a campus newsmagazine, Sundial, about the vision of

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• Someone noticed: Amusing that BitsBlog managed to make The New York Times over the weekend

Fox News is reporting:

Former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has died.

McNamara, 93, died at home in his sleep Monday morning, his wife Diana told The Associated Press. She said he had been in failing health for some time.

Known

A great piece from Mary Grabar at Pajamas Media today. Here’s a bit of it:

But those streets, once havens for displaced persons, soon were destroyed by the utopian plans of collectivists and their agitators who urged the

I’ve been noting some page resolution times that are longer than I’d like to see.

To get the performance where it belongs, I’ll be moving BitsBlog to another, more powerful server sometime in the next few weeks. When, I don’t