Democrats And Their Entitlement Expectations

Billy Hollis over at Q&O:

I’m referring to Tom Daschle. You’ll recall that he got knocked out in 2004 despite being the Democrats’ leader in the Senate at the time.

His co-senator, elected in 2002, was Tim Johnson, who suffered

James Joyner says this morning:

Anthony Watts as generated a huge amount of blogospheric attention with his report on Steve McIntyre’s recalculation of temperature trends. It turns out that the Y2K bug skewed previous data from this decade.

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Boortz raises an interesting point:

Yesterday the federal government proposed yet another version of an airline passenger pre-screening program.  It’s called Secure Flight.  It will let domestic passengers volunteer to provide their date of birth and gender when the

Bret Baier, who is still doing Hume’s job, says last night:

Anti-war groups are said to be split over the question of whether to attack Democrats over their failure to secure legislation mandating a troop withdrawal from Iraq.

The Hill

• Sir Francis!! DUCK!!! Yeah, I got first place in the OTB Caption contest.
• The news has been bouncing around on the sphere all day regards the marines who were at Haditha being cleared of all charges.  The one thing I’ve

Allah Pundit, Hot Air, has Ed Morrissey’s, Captain’s Quarters, expose of Move-On donor and lawyer Henry Reynolds, who set up a phoney web site to smear Fred Thompson.

Good job Ed.

Addendum: (Bit) McQ notes this story this

(FoxNews)– The photo of a Florida woman who has been missing for a year-and-a-half has turned up on Internet dating sites for lesbians and senior citizens.

A picture of Jennifer Kesse, who disappeared in Orlando when she was 24, has

MediaBistro says:

The AFL-CIO Democratic forum last night on MSNBC, was the lowest rated-yet of the eight primary debates/forums held this election season. Based on live +same day data, Nielsen found the debate had 960,000 total viewers and 340,000 viewers

Democrats? They really are a party with no new ideas except: tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax …

Don Surber.

Fits in well with James Oberstar and  Neil Abercrombie,

Kate, Small Dead Animals, blogs of the creaking as Al Gore’s settled science settles in yet again and his hockey stick morphs into a puck:

“As it stands, we are looking at a bladeless “Hockey Stick”, and for all

A Blue Dog is a conservative democrat.   The Kossack wing of the democrat party faces a problem.  It appears that the Kossacks can’t live with the Blue Dogs.  However without the Blue Dogs the democrats would not have have a

Let it be known, there is no such thing as a “temporary” goverrment rax.

In 1898, Congress passed a levy of one cent per telephone call to help raise money for the Spanish-American War. By 1990, the tax had

• Hot around here today. Well, actually not too hot, only around 86°, but with the humidity, it FEELS like more. Joyner is reporting his neck of the woods got to 100, today. No, this isn’t a comment about global warming,(I’ll

Goldfarb, over at the Weekly Standard:

It appears that today is a watershed day with regard to US policy in Iraq. Democratic leaders now acknowledge that the surge is working. The only catch is, they say it’s no surprise, they’ve

I want to mention, here, that I got a nice note back from Rick Moran, regarding the open note I posted last night. I genuinely appreciated his taking the time, and his warm comments for BitsBlog. Apparently, he’s been catching