Old Fart Gets One Right, Finally

Bill Dupray, Flopping Aces, reports that Fred will vet McCain’s judges:

Big Fred doing the Big Job. Love it. From Human Events.

In a McCain administration, former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson would play a dominant role in selecting

Barack Obama has now taken to mocking the Seal of the President of the United States.   Photo courtesy of CNN.   John McCormack, Weekly Standard, suggests that BO’s faux seal is illegal:

18 USC Sec. 713 …
(a) Whoever

An interesting note at the LA Times Blog this morning:

Led by chairman Mike Duncan, the Republican National Committee ended May with 13 times more money in the bank than its Democratic counterpart, and raised five times as much

The mortgage bail-out bill pending in the Senate, the so-called, Dodd-Shelby mortgage-lender bailout bill was written by the its chief beneficiary, Bank of America.  BOA paid the bill’s co-sponsor to push their bill.  Stephen Spruiell, National Review has both the

Charles Krauthammer explains the problem with John McCain’s energy policy and with Barack Obama’s entire campaign, Washington Post::

Alas, McCain’s proposed reform is only partial. Still better than Obama, however, who refuses to deviate from liberal orthodoxy. But that

Ben Castlemen at the WSJ this morning points out that lifting the drilling ban would not be an immididate fix for our situation.

If the bans were lifted tomorrow, it would be at least seven years — and likely as

ABC’s Political Punch this morning:

In a web video to supporters — “the people who built this movement from the bottom up” — Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, announced this morning that he will not enter into the public financing system,

Congressman Maurice Hinchey(D-NY), want to natinnalize domeestic oil refineries(industry?), via Beldar Blog:

So if there’s any seriousness about what some of our Republican colleagues are saying here in the House and elsewhere about improving the number of refineries, then

OK, here’s story number one, by way of Michelle:

(06-17) 19:07 PDT TURLOCK (STANISLAUS COUNTY) — The town of Turlock and much of the rest of the nation was shocked when a 27-year-old man beat and stomped his 2-year-old son

Fox News:

For the second day in a row, gas prices nation wide have ticked down. The decrease isn’t much, but it’s enough to give motorists hope that more could be on the horizon.

The average per-gallon price stands at

LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Dancer and actress Cyd Charisse, whose legs were insured for a million dollars in the heyday of the Hollywood musical, died at her home in Los Angeles on Tuesday, her agent said. She was 87.

Scott

• One of these days I’ve really gotta send Gaius over at Blue Crab Blvd a six-pack, just on G.P.. (Do beings that walk sideways drink beer? OK, dumb question. Depends how much they’ve had. Gotcha.)  The guy’s out there slugging

Just how stupid is Barack “BO” Obama?, via John Brody, Brody FilesL

“This is unfortunately become a habit in our politics where anything’s fair game, and we just make things up about people. If you think about Michelle, I mean

Me at OTB just now:

Is there a a pair of braincells left in working order within the AP?

(Shrug) No matter. You see, the bloggers are the 600lb Gorilla, and it’s time the AP figured that one out.

So, AP, welcome to the school