The Wages of Pandering….

Let’s get straight to it.  What the hell were Obama’s people thinking when they invited a white openly gay minister to open for his South Carolina gospel concert with Donnie McClurkin?I’ll repeat it once more.

I said, what the hell

Rob over at Say Anything, yesterday, points to facts the left doesn’t want you to know:

Weird…

U.S. combat troop deaths and other violence in Iraq are down significantly in some of the most dangerous places of insurgent

That site that Israel bombed, was apparently correctly identified in the news reports that we all saw last evening.  This is a before and after shot:

As to the official reaction of Syria, Bruce McQuain makes an excellent point:

Seems

• I finally… finally…slapped that nasty little bug in the comments section. Been a while since I’ve had the programmer’s hat on. The bug in case you’d not noticed, was the oddball time display on each comment. Bad call to

Andrew “Excitable”  Sullivan rolls out the welcome mat:

 I don’t think I qualify as a Neo-Nazi or a Code Pink activist. Full Wired story here. But here’s a simple message to Ron Paul supporters. You’re welcome here. The

Ok we have beat back the ‘rat’s latest attempt at amnesy.  Yet this is one battle, a Gettysburg, and not a surrender, Appomattox.

Fred Thompson shows that Dick Durbin’s DREAM act was really a nightmare:

After several false starts

Who’s in Charge? “Dream Act” Fails, Southwick Wins

Talk Left.

Sounds rather like a forthcoming football game, doesn’t it? Interestingly, this little subtext drama gets played out in the sports venue of each city.

(Sigh) I haven’t even attempted to cover the fires in SouCal. I’m simply not equipped for

Megan McArdle:

Ezra and Brian are complaining that it’s hard to get anything done these days:

I think it’s almost certainly wrong that we’re not overwhelmed by the volume of tragedy in the world — there’d have to be something

You’d like to think that one place our nations laws would be respected would be in the Halls of Congress.    Not if you are a democrat, who planned to flout our nation’s immigrantion laws by using illegal aliens as props.  

Don’t go here if you have a weak stomach.

RAIDS RESULT IN CAPTURE OF SUSPECTED AL QAEDA LEADERS

Posted: 22 Oct 2007 06:20 AM CDT

RAIDS RESULT IN CAPTURE OF SUSPECTED AL QAEDA LEADERS

TWO MILITANTS KILLED IN FIRE FIGHT WITH COALITION FORCES

Posted: 22 Oct 2007 06:13 AM

James Joyner: (Link repaired)

Reason‘s Dave Weigel takes to the pages of The American Conservative to warn Republicans that they’re not going to win in 2008 simply by bashing Hillary Clinton.

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While negative campaigning and pointing out the

See Michelle for the rest of the story.

Addendum: (Bit) Yes, well, I wouldn’t be too overly concerned about Stark keeping his word about being sorry and henceforth keeping his mouth shut.  We already have a pretty fair example of

Here is an interesting story that really doesn’t need much in the way of comment.

By SCOTT LINDLAW
SAN DIEGO (AP) – Like Hurricane Katrina evacuees two years earlier in New Orleans, thousands of people rousted by natural disaster fled