John Lott: The ‘Recession’ Is a Media Myth

John Lott online at Fox this morning, puts a slightly different angle on things than the Democrats want spread round:

A little perspective on the economy would be helpful. The average unemployment rate during President Clinton was 5.2 percent. The

• I wasn’t exactly goig through withdrawal symptoms over the weekend, while the site servers got moved physically… but damned near that. At least a dozen times I saw something that screamed out to be written up for the blog, and

OK, I’ve gotta give Joe Lieberman credit. From Time this morning:

Well, I say that the Democratic Party changed. The Democratic Party today was not the party it was in 2000. It’s not the Bill Clinton-Al Gore party, which was

By way of John Hawkins’ Conservative Grapevine, we get news that backs something Ive been saying for weeks now. I’ve been saying that we’re about to see a massive price drop… that even exclusive of any major finds, that

Hume, on Friday: 

The left-wing blog Think Progress has had to eat its words after claiming presidential candidate John McCain plagiarized.

An entry posted Thursday – under the heading “Corrupt Establishments” – claims that McCain lifted parts of a speech

Meet today’s hero, SSG Raymond Bittinger, an infantryman and squad leader with 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment of the 1st Infantry Division. On the day of this incident he was attached to the 1st Battalion, 6th Field Artillery Regiment.

So

Michelle notes that the charges against Lance Cpl Stephen Tatum have been dropped.

By the Marines… not by Democrat Jack Murtha, who accused the Marines of murdering people in cold blood.

Where’s Jack Murtha now?

Certainly, he is not where

MSNBC is saying:

BAGHDAD – Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Sunday ordered his fighters off the streets nationwide and called on the government to stop raids against his followers and free them from prison.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki issued a

Yeah, THAT figures.

While this site was offline because of the server move…. (and I must admit the performance appears to be better at first glance) it turns out that WordPress has released a new version, too, and the

From the Telegraph, today:

Plans for Al Gore to take the Democratic presidential nomination as the saviour of a bitterly divided party are being actively discussed by senior figures and aides to the former vice-president.

The bloody civil war

Apparently all went well on their end.

We’d have been back sooner, but they apparently changed the database address, and I had to go hunting for it.

Normal posting will commence once i pick up the pieces here.

David and

BitsBlog will be going offline at Midnight tonight, to return by Midnight Sunday night. This is to allow a server move.

(Sticky)

• John Venlet showed up to play, yesterday. Nice to see you, John. Missed ya. He says he’s going to be posting quite a bit in the next several weeks, apparently focusing on the mortgage industry.
• Me at Q&O today, about

Hume, last night:

The United Nations Human Rights Council was supposed to be better than the old Human Rights Commission, which became famous for bias and hypocrisy. Now the same charge is being leveled at the new body

The council

• Yeah, I guess you’re right, Bruce. McCain couldn’t get a better endorsement.
• I’m not sure about Nancy Regan’s endorsement, however.
• I see Boortz’ web wench saying:
  

  Chelsea Clinton says that this college student was the first person to