Nightly Ramble: The Random Thoughts of a Monday

• It occurs to me, that there are a couple of reasons for raising the CAFE standards… you know about those… those are the fleet MPG ratings each auto maker is supposed to have in these United States… obviously, a small

WASHINGTON —AP- President Bush spared former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby from a 2 1/2-year prison term in the CIA leak case Monday, stepping into a criminal case with heavy political overtones on grounds that the sentence was

As you may or may not already be aware, members of the Watcher’s Council hold a vote every week on what they consider to be the most link-worthy pieces of writing around…  per the Watcher’s instructions, I am submitting

perhaps it’s a little late to be looking at this, now, but Amity Shales in today’s Wall Street Journal as, as the byline says “reconsidering our reverence for FDR.”

It’s about bloody time.

The real question about the 1930s is

Has anyone else noticed that since the predicted “scorching hot summer” has turned into a very damp squib, “global warming” has suddenly become “climate change”?

Terry Wogan, via Tim Blair.
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Brits get pratriotic, Enjoy.

Bash a couple stories together and you come up with interesting results.
Captain Ed, this morning says

What are the causes of terrorism? Many would have them as poverty, a lack of education, and little exposure to Western values.

Michelle Malkin passes a message along, which I will do here as well.

I  hope you can take a few moments out of your day to add Matthew Rager to your thoughts and prayers. Reader Eric e-mails

Our son

I saw this post from Michael Yon, earlier today, and had no words for it. It is, the reality of what we’re up against.  Cold, hard, brutal.  It’s a reality that many in our country don’t want to face.

The Sunday Telegraph is heralding what it says could be the death of Rap music.

Confronted with haemorrhaging sales, the most assertive popular music movement since the Sex Pistols has lost its swagger and is suffering a crisis of confidence.

A slow day out there. Been looking around at some of the things on my “todo” list. ONe of hem was the comment some weeks ago about Fred Thompson being a legislative lightweight.

First of all, even if he was

Kos is broke:

I’m not accustomed to flat-out begging, but I’m going to do it out of necessity.

Please give to Kos,what you think he deserves. 

Hat Tip: Don Surber

Bit wrote about one bloviarting blowhard, Larry Johnson,   I write of another, Al Gore.  

In the Chicago Sun-Times, James M. Taylor, pleads for Gore to acknowledge sciience:

Many of the assertions [Al] Gore makes in his movie, ”An

As events unfold I’m simply asking that folks take a big deep breath and try to keep things in perspective.  Are there jihadist extremists in the world who are willing to kill innocents?  Absolutely.  Are they amenable to negotiation?  No. 

If you thought that the democrat leaders’ imaginary friends retired, when Dck Gephardt went back to Missouri you are badly mistaken.

Dirty Harry Reid has taken up where Gephardt left off, inventing imaginary friends, who just so happen to agree