Memo to AP: F Y

The Associated Press does not believe in the War on Terror, but they do believe in their war on bloggers, Tim Conneally, BetaNews

The AP’s disharmony with bloggers may have only just begun, as the alternative it’s now offering to

• Twice this week we’ve started with a Bruce McQuain post. Unusual, but worthy. Bruce notes AL Gore’s endorsement of Obama, yesterday and says If Al wants him, I sure don’t … Interestingly, Fox has been running a headline reading: Gore

An interesting post at OTB yesterday, caught my eye:

The cover story of the current Atlantic (Monthly) is an interesting piece by Nicholas Carr which asks, Is Google Making Us Stupid? It begins with the standard “the Internet is giving

I’ve gotten several questions over the years about how to get traffic on the blog. We’ll file this under FAQ. Here’s my response;

•  You can post an article called “How to get huge traffic for your blog”  Hey, it got

I commented last night on the differences between what we see in Iowa and what we saw in Democrat-run New Orleans following Katrina. This vid is likely the best description of New Orleans I’ve seen yet, in it’s description of

This is a grammatically valid English sentence:

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

It was discovered/invented in 1972 by University of Buffalo linguist William J. Rapaport. It means “Buffalo from the city of Buffalo that are intimidated by

• I note Bruce McQuain pointing out yet another obvious case of anti-oil bias, this time from the AP. Well, big freakin’ shock, eh? I have long since become convinced that most of the anti-oil hysteria we see from the left

Evidently the New York Times must pay John Heilemann by the word, and gee I thought piece work was illegal.   Heileman attempts to explain “The Fall and Rise of Hillary Clinton:”

The victor and the vanquished are standing

From the LA Times this morning:

In 2006, John F. Kerry explained the Senate’s 77-23 passage of the Iraq war resolution this way: “We were misled. We were given evidence that was not true.” On the campaign trail, Hillary Rodham

I don’t envy Steve Capus’president of NBC News task. .   Capua has a big set set of shoes to fill, no qualified replacenents on salary and no time to lose.    This is election season and Capus needs to fill the

From the Daily Mail:

George Orwell once wrote that politics was closely related to social identity. ‘One sometimes gets the impression,’ he wrote in The Road To Wigan Pier, ‘that the mere words socialism and communism draw towards them with

Bit notes: Yet another father’s day is upon us. In looking over some of the stuff I’ve written in the past, I find that the thoughts and emotions that caused me to write this ai few years ago, have not

Washington -Journal Sentinal- As an avid supporter of Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic primaries, Debra Bartoshevich is not alone in her frustration over Clinton’s defeat.

She’s not alone in refusing to support Barack Obama.

And she’s not entirely alone

Boy Scout Oath:

A story showing up in the Huffpoop this morning peaked my interest a little… for incredulity, if for nothing else.

Headline:

Dems Not Backing Obama? Rahm Will Deal With It

What’s he planning on doing, having their legs broken? He’s