Nightly Ramble: The Bits Ballcap Edition

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This is the BitsBallcap edition.

Yes, indeed, this object to the right is the genuine article, the Bits Ballcap, the subject of

Mark Hemingway at The Corner:

I was perusing an old column by Kevin Rennie, the former Connecticut state legislator that broke the cottage story, and noticed this interesting tidbit:

During the fourth quarter of 2008, Dodd’s Senate re-election campaign

WTOP in DC:

WASHINGTON – A D.C. Office of the Chief Technology Officer employee and a government contractor have been arrested in a federal bribery sting, sources tell WTOP.

D.C. Office of the Chief Technology Officer employee Yusuf Acar and

Somehow, I ended up on the mailing list of the New York GOP.  Found this in my mail last night:

“Since its founding, the Republican Party has stood for the time honored values and ideals of opportunity, personal responsibility, accountability

James Joyner at OTB:

The big story at memeorandum is a report by MinnPost‘s Eric Black, passed on by Raw Story‘s Muriel Kane, that Dick Cheney ran a super secret assassination ring out of his office.

Obama thinks al Qaead is merely misunderstood,  He thinks Rush Limbaugh is evil.David Goldstein, McClatchy Newspapers:

 WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama said Wednesday that he would never put communities like Leavenworth, Kan., at risk in deciding where to relocate

Statement from House Republican Whip, Eric Cantor:

“Just three weeks after President Obama signed his ‘stimulus’ bill into law, Congressional Democrats are already conceding that it will fail to achieve its objective. As the Speaker knows, the only reason

Ed Mrrrissey, Hot Air, on Scarlet Obama, “Gone With The Change:”

I’ll think about it tomorrow.  After all, tomorrow is another day.

The final couplet from Gone with the Wind offers an instructive look at the

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Diana speaks the truth here… and it’s about time our GOP leadership listened.

And most polls show the president’s approval rating at about 60 percent, which is similar to other modern presidents’ ratings at this point in their presidencies. But now that Obama has used his political capital to further ideology rather than

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Market tanking. Check.

Government growing. Check.

Industry failing. Check.

Our government bound and determined to

Bill Sammon at Fox News, this morning, because apparently the Dinosaurs aren’t interested in digging for this stuff:
 

On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, just minutes before learning of the terrorist attacks on America, Democratic strategist James Carville

This one didn’t take long at all, Geraghty’s Law:

All Barack Obama statements come with an expiration date. All of them.

Jay P. Greene:

President Obama gave a great speech yesterday in which he strongly endorsed charter schools

From Mrs. Clinton’s State Department, Overseas Security Advisory Council:

In January, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya increased the minimum wage 60 percent, raising monthly wages from US$ 181 to $289. As a result, an estimated 15,000 people have been laid