Andy Griffith: Dead (age 86)

From Sister Toldjah:

A beloved American actor has passed away.

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Mayberry’s not the only town mourning the loss of “Sheriff Taylor” this morning.

A great actor, and former American icon.

Final transfer to the infantry approved.

[T]here is no positive right to health care, that no human has a “right” to medical care. Congress enacted a law saying otherwise, but that does not match up to a reality in which physicians cannot be conjured out of

If you can not lead, then hide, from Washington Post, via Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit:

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. sharply criticized lawmakers Monday for voting to hold him in contempt of Congress last week, saying Republicans

I have trouble with the idea of running a criminal conver-up merely to protect a retired assistant football coach, from by Buzz Bissinger, Daily Beast:

[Joe] Paterno is lucky to have died last January at the age of 85.

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we can expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.”

As cited by Michael J. Boskin, Wall Street Journal.

I do not endorse Dick Morris as a pundit.   However he does present a charming, witty and sharp picture of the choice we face in November, from the Other Smitty,  the Other McCain:

Visit Smitty to view his six

The Obama administration continues to invoke the B.J. Clinton defense, to wit outright lying.   B.J. wished the nation to believe that getting a Lewinsky, that is oral sex, from Monica Lewinsky was not sex, because B.J. said it was not

I’ve had a chance to read the majority and minority rulings.

I’ve been reading these things for a number of years now and anyone who has done so, even those not legally trained, have begun to recognize that the majority

I don’t think there’s any question about that, and have said so since the opening bell on this case. Doug Mataconis writes about this at OTB and basically confirms my initially voiced suspicions:

A new set of email messages among

Yes it true that Jerry Sandusky is a pervert, predator and convicted criminal.   However predators can not long survive in one locale, unless they are protected, and at PSU, Sandusky had plenty of protectors, from Paul Campos, Lawyers, Gun$ and

Young, British female journalist, Natasha Smith, savaged by Egyptian mob, from Mediate, video:

Reax by Captain Louis Renault “I am shocked.”

Human rights are not a universal norm, but rather a cultural value. You should not walk into a tiger