In House Work

I’ve done some server tweaks, which I think will increase the display performance, several fold.  Mostly the cache values got moved around a bit.  The actual dataload from the front page is a bit higher than I like to see

Until about an hour ago, I had been concentrating on who won and who lost, and trying to make some political “Will of the people” sense about it all.  But no really clear picture came through until such time as

I’m pleased to announce that Sister Toldjah has become a Swamp Stomper, effective today. We and she have been firing stuff back and forth over the wall for several months, now. She is without a doubt one of the more

Some of the trends noted in my reading of last night’s election returns, so far:

So much for the left’s myth that a pro-life stance was the kiss of death for pols:

New Jersey voters had not killed a statewide

My reaction? Yeah, right, whatever.

WASHINGTON —Fox- Evangelical Christian leader Pat Robertson on Wednesday endorsed former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who has struggled to bridge with conservatives some of his socially moderate policy positions on abortion and gay rights.

The only News paper in Washington, Washintgton Times

Voters oppose driver’s licenses for illegal aliens by a nearly five-to-one margin, a new Fox 5/Washington Times/Rasmussen Reports poll finds.
As immigration politics explode into the presidential race, polls show Americans are

Alan Dershowitz, guesting at the WSJ today:

Consider, for example, the contentious and emotionally laden issue of the use of torture in securing preventive intelligence information about imminent acts of terrorism–the so-called “ticking bomb” scenario. I am not now talking

Yes, to answer the question of a couple overnight e-mails… I voted, yesterday. A local election, for the most part.

The initial tallies seem interesting… Democrats making gains in the metros, Republicans walking way with the prize everywhere else. Polarized,

Yeas and Nays:

On today’s “The Situation Room,” Sen. Hillary Clinton opened up about her widely-discussed performance during last week’s MSNBC debate. (You can watch the video here on Breitbart.tv)

“I wasn’t at my best the other night,” Clinton

Captain Ed notes, , the Mukasey vote, yesterday:

The Senate Judiciary Panel reported Michael Mukasey’s nomination to the full Senate today, recommending confirmation by an 11-8 vote. Chuck Schumer and Dianne Feinstein voted to support , as announced earlier,

Just One Minute quotes the Boston Ledger:

   John Kerry: I’m Now Prepared to Fight Off Swift Boat Veterans
Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, perhaps preparing to get back into the presidential ring one day, claims he’s now armed with

False Confessions They’ve always been the point of torture, and always will be.

In a CIA sub-station close to al Libi’s jail cell, the CIA’s “debriefers,” who had been talking to al Libi for days after his return from Cairo,

FIVE TERRORISTS KILLED, 30 SUSPECTS DETAINED DURING COALITION OPERATIONS

Posted: 05 Nov 2007 02:12 PM CST

FIVE TERRORISTS KILLED, 30 SUSPECTS DETAINED DURING COALITION OPERATIONS

Interesting note in the WaPo, today:

All of the leading Democratic contenders for the presidency are committed to a set of cuts in greenhouse gas emissions that would change the way Americans light their homes, fuel their automobiles and do

Noted on another blog just now which shall remain nameless, since they had no part of choosing the graphic…

Is it just me or does this ad for NYC Tourism, look amazingly like this old cover for the 1972 WAR