Earthshaking

Word must have gone out that Harry Reid is in trouble in Washington and in his home state. The ground started moving out there yesterday. A fairly substantial 6.3 Richter. Some problems, but no deaths or major injuries to report.

“Xerox” isn’t a noun.

Addendum: (David L)

How can do many media sources get a one line quote so wrong?  Lots of practice I quess, via CNN:

And, you know, lifting whole passages from someone else’s speeches is not

Boortz makes an interesting historical point yesterday:

You might find it interesting to know what our founding fathers thought of the idea of a democracy. There’s an incredible book out there titled “Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation. Here’s your link

Good new from, Michelle Malkin:

The Duke lacrosse players are seeking justice. They deserve it:

Duke University will be sued by 38 members of the 2006 men’s lacrosse team who claim they suffered emotional distress when school officials failed

• Billy
  

  “I’ve always believed that he’s the easier candidate to beat in the Fall.”

  (McPhillips: “Are The Clintons Over?”)

  I think his general position is correct: these people won’t be “over” until we see their boxes getting dropped into the

Bullseye:

HONOLULU (AP) – A U.S. Navy cruiser blasted a disabled spy satellite with a pinpoint missile strike that achieved the main mission of exploding a tank of toxic fuel 130 miles above the Pacific Ocean, defense officials

Alter is saying Obama is going to win because Hillary Clinton ran the worst campaign in history. Which of course, ignores that what was being sold was simply unsellable. I suspect she ran the best campaign she could.  People know

Mrs. Clinton’s last stand, via Byron York, National Review:

On a conference call, top strategist Mark Penn just told reporters that in the next two weeks Hillary Clinton will go after Barack Obama on the issue of who is

• Honorable Mention in the OTB Caption Contest.
• No, folks… Now is not the time for The Cuban embargo to be removed. Not until Fidel Casto‘s POLICIES are. This is not about one man, however infamous. This is about the

Surber, this morning reports that FIdel Castro is among other things, in possession of about $900 million.  Lessee… $900  Huge. Do you suppose that this qualifies as Communism, under the definitions that Marx originally laid down? So, not oly have

• The Jawas say Toshiba‘s given up on HD-DVD, and Sony will win this one with their Blu-Ray.. I dunno, after they lost on Beta, I guess it makes sense. The difference being this time quality at the

Well, now… This was unexpected, but great news…

From the Shire Network Podcast:

Ezra Levant is our guest this week. Ezra is the former publisher of Canada’s Western Standard newspaper, who was famously hauled up in front of some

I remember eating breakfast the morning of Nine-Eleven.   The television rolled the images of the three hundred forty-three fire fighters lost by the Fire Department of New York City.   These fire fighters were entering a building they knew they would

Local weather:  Twenty-four degrees that feels like thirteen. 

As the culture coarsens:

LEESBURG, Va. – (Fox News)-A children’s book about two male penguins that hatch a chick together has been pulled from school library shelves in Loudoun County,

A call to action from Michelle:

Erick at RedState puts out a call to those of you in the D.C. area who are up for a party with John Murtha. Pig costumes preferred, but optional:

Mark your calendar for February