Fred Fest

A feast for Fredheads.

Hat tips:  Newsbusters, Red State.

Don LaFontaine, the man whose resonant voice read the trailers of thousands of movies over the past three decades, died

• Rumor has it that Amy Winehouse is dain bramaged after a 36 hours pot marathon. Of course that was the rumor BEFORE that, too. And look, I know, OK, so don’t start with me. But when someone is that determined

Never let it be said that a blogger’s ego is a function of his hit rate.   While BItsblog is but small but maybe no so humble blog, I suggest to his Bitness that we promote William Kristol to the rank

• The U.S. military has handed over security control of the western province of Anbar to Iraqi forces. BBCT: McQ Well, at least the leftist nutjobs aren’t saying anything about it, being too busy trying to Derail Palin.  Apparently there’s not

“Stop prying into other people’s vaginas, even if you happen to oppose them politically. What is wrong with you people?”

Ann Althouse.

Professsor Althouse comments on the left’s war on Soccer (and Hockey) Moms.   The left’s hatred of women,

Decided to make a run to Dansville, NY… about an hour’s drive south of Rochester, to catch the annual Balloon Festival. This is usually a two day event. Actually, we’d planned to camp down there for the weekend, but (Shrug)

In 1984 Dave Thomas took a bit out of McDonald’s by asking, “Where is the beef?”   Well today yet another Dave takes yet a bit out of another icon, to wit Barack Obama.   While BO was asleep at

Reynolds:

For me, of course, most of the fun of the past 24 hours has come from watching Democrats get caught up in the whole identity-politics tangle.

And you know, Glenn’s hit this one. That’s really what this has been

I see, by way of McQ, a set of trascripts on National Review  from Larry Kudlow, of interviews with Sarah Palin, Here and here I’ll include a few excepts, here.

Kudlow: Here’s the bad news. The Congress is going

OK, I admit I don’t have an Iphone.

I gather some of you with them were having problems with it and this blog, though, (Totally unreadable, I hear)  and of course I want to help. I’ve added some code to

Jake Tapper has the tale of two takes, ABC News: 

“Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency,” said Obama spox Bill Burton. “Gov.

I’ve cleaned up the front page a bit, as well as the footers on individual posts.

The object is to lighten the load a bit on the Database server, and get the page looking a bit cleaner. Individual posts still

The official Democrat Party Veep Hit list: 

Bobby Jindal
Mitt Romney
John Thune
Tom Ridge
Tim Pawlenty
Carly Fiorina
Charlie Crist
Fred Smith
Eric Cantor

Blind-sided baby!

Sarah Palin gives the McCain-Palin campaign some leverage to attack Obama a several

I said a short while ago, I wasn’t buying Palin as the VP choice until it came out officially. Apparently, it just did. Fox News Channel:

DAYTON, Ohio — A senior campaign official in the John McCain campaign confirmed to