What’s Theirs, And What’s Mined

John Fund, this morning:

Tonight, PBS will air “Gold Futures,” a film by Hungary’s Tibor Kocsis. The film focuses on residents in Romania’s Rosia Montana, a rural Transylvanian town, who are divided over the benefits of a proposed gold mine.

Ed Morrissey, Captain’s Quarters, examines Congress’ approval rating, or lack thereof:

Democrats have created a monster for themselves, and they seem unable to free themselves from their rut. They have accomplished almost nothing of their agenda, save a minimum-wage

We’ve been saying for months now, that the push toward “environmentally friendly fuels” and all of that nonsense, didn’t make sense if it was you surely from an environmentalist standpoint.  We have expressed suspicion all this time that there was

• The latest feather in the cap

Glenn Reynolds has the lastest exciting episode of Name that Party.   View the video.

Hat tip:  Allah Pundit, Hot Air.

More, Don Surber.

For reasons beyond the realm of understanding., the New York Daily News, has seen fit to publish a list of demands by the ajudicated defamer, who uses the moniker the Reverend Al Sharpton.   In the article Sharptoin issues

Noted on the AP wire, via Forbes this morning:

JERUSALEM – An animal rights group on Wednesday criticized a program on a Hamas-run television station in which a man swings cats by their tails and throws stones at lions in

LOS ANGELES —FOX  A man who died at the home of action star Ving Rhames most likely did not die from bites from Rhames’ dogs, county coroner’s officials said Friday.

Jacob Adams, 40, was living on Rhames’ Brentwood property as

My reaction to Goodman-like complaining is: It’s 2007, you live in the United States. You have a pen, phone and Internet connection. Stop whining. It’s unattractive. If you want to have an impact, just work. That’s how the guys do

Hey, Billy, as regards Vista… I tend to concur.  But you apparently have forgotten the first rule of Microsoft operating systems.  Never use version one of anything they produce. By chance, do you remember Windows Millennium Edition?  Case in

I find myself amused by this Katie Hafner story in the New York Times today… And the impression that the story tries to leave his that’s the edits within Wikipedia we discussed here some day ago, were at its

An excellent article today in The Guardian, of all places.  The Lede:

The writer Andrew Anthony was a committed member of the liberal left – until the attacks of 11 September, 2001. A veteran of CND and Nicaraguan solidarity

Over at RedState, we hear that Mike Deaver has passed away.

Apparently,  Mike was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last fall.  Frankly, I hadn’t even heard that, so was something of a surprise when I stumbled across the Red State

The man too dumb to be president stuck his foot in his mouth yet again: 

WAVERLY, Iowa (AP) – Democrat Barack Obama said Saturday the country faces an “an urgent moral challenge” to reduce reliance on oil and

The Telegraph –The Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez has anointed himself president for life by proposing sweeping changes to the country’s constitution.

Setting out his plans for completing his socialist revolution in the oil-rich Latin American nation, he proposing radical