The ‘Let Them Eat Cake’ Moment

Over at OTB, James notes Page Six:

Lisa Schiffren of NRO’s The Corner passes on a NY Post Page Six report that — brace yourself –  Michelle Obama ordered some expensive food!

While he was at a meeting

Bruce at Q&O, yesterday notes a question at Men’s News Daily:

Now that Barack Obama has received the endorsement of the Brady Campaign gun-control group, will the Supreme Court’s findings in the D.C. gun-ban “Heller” case matter?

I don’t

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• Second place for the boss at OTB’s caption contest.
• Market went up another 300 points this morning. Lost most of that in the afternon,

This has to be one of the dumber moves by the USSC I’ve ever seen… and trust me they’ve screwed up enough in my lifetime to make that count for something…

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed with Democratic Ohio Secretary

David’s quote of Ed Morressy seems to me quite on the money. Consider the operative phrase of Ed’s very first line: “Stench of Desperation”.

And what is driving this desperation, you may ask? Wasn’t Obama ahead? What explains this?
Well,

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• Remember Obama’s charge that someone at a McCain rally had yelled “Kill him”? Yeah, Obama’s been mouthing that tale as has the Oobama

Here’s a transcript of last night’s debate.

If I get time, there’s a number of points I’d like to break out of it.  But for now, a quick overview of who won and who lost.

If there’s one thing that

Bruce notes John Murtha with an interesting statement:

U.S. Rep. John Murtha says his home base of western Pennsylvania is racist and that could reduce Barack Obama’s victory margin in the state by 4 percentage points.

The 17-term Democratic congressman

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• Tonight is the final debate between BO and McCain.  The obvious lean is for some serious fireworks to occur, but I wonder if

The Washington Times is now reporting:

Democratic vice-presidential candidate Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. has paid more than $2 million in campaign cash to his family members, their businesses and employers over the years, a practice that watchdogs criticize as

In last night’s Ramble, I said:

OK, yes, it’s the National Enquirer. Yes, nobody else is covering the story. Yes, there’s a Clintonista running the place.  But given that on three occasions in the last six months by my count,

Interesting news from The Darke Blog:

A 3-judge panel of the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals recently vacated a temporary restraining order which would effectively make Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner follow the law – and do her job

Yeah, we’re back from the camping trip, and dispite an extended, hot shower, and eight hours of kip, Uncle Bit is still tired, and smells like pine smoke. I’ll have some nice pics to show you later tonight. That said,

As longtime readers will know well, I have never been impressed with Paul Krugman, except in the extreme negative. As an example a comment from a few months ago:

I‘ll open this by saying that by rights, and in