IN SEARCH OF… Principles

From the Palm Treo:

I’m sitting in the back yard, watching over some steaks and a little corn on the cob.

I have a question that I dare say will make some of you rather uncomfortable.

To set this up,

From The Wall Street Journal, today:

Korea made its second test of a nuclear explosive on Monday and declared it was more destructive than the first, an advance that is likely to embolden Kim Jong Il’s regime in rebuffing

Have you ever been to Arlington ?

It’s a place like very few others on the planet.  It’s true enough; the world would be a better place if  places such as Arlington weren’t required to be a part of it,

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Joe Sudbay, America Blog, must be one of all of three people that think Colin Powell is a republican:

There may be some fireworks on this Memorial Day weekend — intra-GOP fireworks.

Colin Powell may have been a successful

(CNN) — Pennsylvania Republican Tom Ridge is taking direct aim at Rush Limbaugh, telling CNN’s John King the conservative talk radio host can be “shrill” and uses language in a way “that offend very many.”

“Rush Limbaugh has an audience

I am starting at the end, but you should read this piece from the very beginning, from Lords86, Red State:

Unless and until President Obama quits playing games with national security, he will give Dick Cheney ample reason to

With no due respect, Mr. President,  Associated Press:

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama saluted veterans and urged his countrymen to do the same this Memorial Day weekend, saying the nation has not always paid them proper respect.

In his

Andie Collier, Politio, wants us to believe:

She’s the 69-year-old speaker of the House of Representatives, second in the line of succession and the most powerful woman in U.S. history.

But when you see Nancy Pelosi, the Republican National

I suppose everything is easy, if your biggest worry in only political viability, video:

Hat tip: Allah Pundit, Hot Air.

I am not sure anybody can be this dumb, but Barack Obama has proven that he is no ordinary fool.   American Thinker, among others, is suggesting the the Moron-in-Chief, is planning on apologizing to Germany for liberating Europe:

The

Virology has given BitsBlog the honor of listing us as one of the top ten political blogs.

I’ve brought to the attention of the webmasters, however, that BitsBlog is a multi-author blog, wich would seem to create a problem, given

Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, a/k/a Speaker Tablecloth, does her imitation of  Emily Latilla.    First Speaker Tablecloth accuses the Central Intelligence Agency of  “Lying to the Congress of the United States”, Willliam A. Jacobson, Legal Insurrection:

Nancy

The speech that President Barack Obama did not want the nation to hear, video:

Hat tip: Sweetness & Light

Transcript (as prepared), via William Kristol, Weekly Standard:

Thank you all very much, and Arthur, thank you for that introduction.

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

This is the “Still in the truck stop” edition

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