Nightly Ramble:The Burbs, The Rain, The Music, The Mess, And Change Back From Your Dollars, More

• I tend to agree, Billy, (In fact I think you’re getting soft in your dotage) but the sad truth is that in that cesspool, he’ll likely find a band of supporters. Not only is he dumping n the military,

James Joyner:
 

The bitterness of the Democratic presidential race kicked up another notch yesterday, with the discovery that popular Air America radio host Randi Rhodes recently performed a profanity-laced standup routine in which both Geraldine Ferraro and Hillary Clinton were

It seems that April is Confederate Heritage month. Why one would want to celebrate a heritage of violent rebellion against a democratically elected government in order to perpetuate a system of chattel slavery is a bit hard for me to

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said on Thursday he would not accept the nomination for U.S. vice president as he did four years ago.
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“No,” said Edwards, who also declined to say whether he

• McQ notes this report which finally catches on to the obvious…
  

  Rap music has increasingly glamorized the use of illegal drugs, portraying marijuana, crack and cocaine as symbols of wealth and status, according to a new study by the journal

Boortz did an interview with the guy we spoke of yesterday… and apparently got swamped with listener feedback:

You’ve heard endless times of the heroic efforts put forth by one Hillary Rodham as a lawyer on that committee. She was

BUENOS AIRES (AFP) – Argentina’s claim to the Falkland Islands, which remain in British hands after the 1982 war between the two countries, is “inalienable,” President Cristina Kirchner said Wednesday.

The sovereign claim to the Malvinas Islands is inalienable,” she

As of tonight, BitsBlog has moved to WordPress 2.5. This is the latest version available. While you likely won’t see much in the way of changes at the user level, some rather massive changes at the Author and SysOp levels

Since CBL (740AM in Toronto) went dark, and CBC radio one went to FM at CBLA/99.1FM*** and about a zillion low power FM repeaters, I can no longer get CBC1, so I didn’t hear this one.

Many Americans are

• I see Presdient Bush is bypassing a lot of laws and regulations to get the southern fence built. Bravo, Presdient Bush, …..on two levels; 1: the fence is actually going to be built. 2: most of these regulations are revealed

Yet another one. The Detroit news is reporting:

TROY — The co-founder and former CEO of the liberal-progressive Democracy Radio and husband of U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow was caught in February by a Troy police sting aimed at catching prostitutes,

Billy notes the story of Hillary Clinton and the Nixon impeachment. This one’s been brewing for quite a while, as Billy notes correctly… and Ed Morrissey confirms in the process of quoting Dan Calabrese:

As Hillary Clinton came under increasing

John Venlet notes that the FBI is reportedly conducting investigations into 1300 mortgage fraud investigations, more or less. Says John:

While the FBI may find a few prosecutable mortgage lending fraud cases, what will mostly be brought to light by

• Turns out that the upgrade I’m planning for this weekend, itself needed a few upgrades as a prerequisite. For example, I use an automatic upgrade package, which needed updating. All that’s been done. I must say, WordPress is getting easier

From the Jawas, and I reprint it in full here because I’m signing on to it:

To: The Dutch Government

WHEREAS Geert Wilders has exercised his fundamental human right of freedom of expression and spoken out, with facts and evidence,