Nightly Ramble: Split Decision, Hagel, Sock Puppets, Rebranding, More

• As predicted, Clinton in Kentucky, Obama in Oregon. The Depth of Clinton’s Kentucky win is striking , though. I’ll have to check, but I don’t know as there has ever been a Democrat who has won the White House who

• Create shortages in the oil markets by ensuring domestic oil supplies can never be used. This will force us to get oil from the least stable spots in the world, thus forcing not only higher prices, but forcing us to

The Democrats:

• Democrats fought to expand slavery while Republicans fought to end it.
• Democrats passed those discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.

Mike Goldfarb notes the Obamafest in Oregon, where something like 75000 people showed up, reportedly to see Obama himself.

Wrong. Mike Goldfarb:

Hugh points to this report from the local paper:

Obama was the biggest star at Sunday’s gathering —

I’ve been considering what to write about Kennedy, for most of the afternoon. With one thing and another, my thoughts ended up being interrupted frequently enough to make writing extended thoughts impossible. So I jotted down a bunch of smaller

• I use Firefox here at Casa de Bit; there’s a copy on every computer I have online. I particularly like the web development tools and the plugins for WordPress. I gather from the rumor mill that Firefox is about ready

Well, it’s not a stroke, because……

BOSTON -(AP)- A cancerous brain tumor caused the seizure Sen. Edward M. Kennedy suffered over the weekend, doctors said Tuesday in a grim diagnosis for one of American politics’ most enduring figures.

Yeah, I

For every action, there’s someone trying to make you feel guilty about it.

What do you know… the study shows us the science does not link urricanes to man-made ‘global warming’. (Bolding is my own-Bit)

WASHINGTON -(AP)- Global warming isn’t to blame for the recent jump in the number of hurricanes in the

Paul Krugman (Idiot, first order) travels to Berlin and notes that there are some differences between Berlin and Atlanta:

To see what I’m talking about, consider where I am at the moment: in a pleasant, middle-class neighborhood consisting mainly

In the United States, a pound of potato chips costs two hundred times more than a pound of potatoes. Yet there is no congressional investigation into this obscene profit margin. Apparently, there are more taxes to be made on oil

I’ve been telling you for months, now, that the Democrat primary was a contest between racism and sexism. Well, the racists are winning, and the sexists are pissed…

Last week’s endorsement of Obama by the abortion rights group NARAL has

Yesterday, I pointed out that there was a major shift in Democrat talking points over Iran and it’s threat to the west.

Today, I note something else… that perhaps even the Democrats have not noted.

For years, now, we’ve been

• My irony meter is melting. Kos is screaming about hate being directed at him. Amazing proof of what I’ve said in these spaces for years now; It’s not that you hate someone, but whom you hate that they object to.

BOGOTA, Colombia ( – A wanted leader of Latin America’s largest guerrilla army handed herself over to Colombian authorities on Sunday, Colombia’s defense minister said.

Eldaneyis Mosquera, also known as “Karina,” was one of the most senior women in the