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,

• @mattklewis RTCNN Poll: 72% of Americans Want Moderate or Conservative for the Supreme Court – http://bit.ly/rZ39s (do the math…) #tcot # #
• @pinkelephantpun Yeah… candy makes me SICK.  #
• I’m in Buffalo doing some railroad photos @

(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

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

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This is the “Still in the truck stop” edition

•  Minority Broadcasters, again: Limbaugh touched on this yesterday:  I lived through the

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This is the “Yet Another Truck Stop” Edition

That’s two Truck Stops in as many weeks, I know. I’m not sure what

Glenn Reynolds, today:

AT CNBC, SKEPTICISM ON BIG BANKS:

 

Mega institutions (financial institutions and insurance companies come to mind) that become TOO BIG TO MANAGE are likely to become TOO BIG TO FAIL.

It is impossible for top management

From John Hawkins:

It was disappointing to many Republicans to see the National Republican Senatorial Committee get involved in the Charlie Crist vs. Marco Rubio primary in Florida.

We’ve had the leadership of the Republican Party saying we need to

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This is the “Road to where?” edition

• That sucks: As a social conservative, I found this piece by Dennis Praeger to be

I’ve given Michael Steele every chance. I’ve held my tongue, while I watched him bumble around as, I reasoned, newcomers to any position will.  But this Politico column of today is the final straw.

First, the Republican Party will be

Unconfirmed as yet, but the story is making the rounds that Speaker Nancy Pelosi is to resign. More as we find.

Addendum: False Alarm.  Turns out to be a RedState pointmaker, and the person resigning isn’t Pelosi, but the

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This is the Truck Stop Edition

• The Fairness Doctrine in Acton:  Seems Crazy Uncle Hugo has decided to shut down the last

Being WHAM/1180 is a local station, I normally wouldn’t post this, but with WHAM’s 50kw signal, and the huge coverage it had back before the FCC decided 750 miles was enough for one station, (Half the bleedin’ country…. literally) I’ll