I Want THIS Guy Across the Poker Table From ME, Jack.

RICHMOND, Va. -AP- Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record), caught up in the fervor of a campaign speech Tuesday, drastically overstated the Kansas tornadoes death toll, saying 10,000 had died. The death toll was 12.

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Mrs. Clinton’s theory of winning the presidency based her sex took a hit when French voters rejected socialist Ségolène Royal.   David Bouder reports on another hit to Mrs. Clinton’s theory:

NEW YORK (AP) – It surely wasn’t what

It’s a bit warmer around here of late, currently 71° at sunset.  Rather nice, actually.  And as warm as it’s been all year.

* No music? No, I’ll save my music comments for last. You’ll see why.
* Boortz makes

Gee. A terror plot involving “Islamic radicals.” Imagine that.

Sister Toldjah

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The Star-Ledger is reporting:

Federal investigators last night arrested six Islamic radicals who were planning a heavily armed attack against soldiers at Fort Dix as part of a jihad against America, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

In a statement

Must have been a slow news day.   The media has a stock of standard stories they periodically dust-off and then foist-off as if they were new.   The nice thing about blogging about them, is that no new creative effort is

Kerstin Gehmlich reports on a potential pitfall for Mrs. Clinton’s campaign:

PARIS (Reuters) – Socialist Segolene Royal failed to win over a majority of women voters in France’s presidential election and may have paid a price for focusing

The Music:

OK, this is going to be a little odd; I’m actually listening to the soundtrack from Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring.

Sometimes, particularly after you’ve heard a sound track a few times, by virtue of

James Lileks, a terrific writer and one of the best newspaper columnists in America, says on his blog today that his newspaper, the Minneapolis-St.Paul Star-Tribune, has decided to kill his column and have him write straight local news stories. This

The Associated Press reported on republican in general, and the Rudy Guliani campaign in particualr, dissatisfaction  with the selction of Keith Olbermann as republican debate moderator.

Greenwald seemed to resent the characterization of Olbermann as the partisan hack that he

Continuing from the earlier post, there’s another lesson we can learn from recent events in Europe: Perhaps our image in the world isn’t quite so damaged as the left would have us think.

We have in France a President

CAMARILLO, Calif. â€”AP–  Gasoline prices have surged to a record nationwide average of $3.07 per gallon, nearly 20 cents higher than two weeks earlier, according to oil industry analyst Trilby Lundberg.

The previous record was $3.03 per gallon on

Financial Times– Paris– Let the finger-pointing begin. Ségolène Royal’s defeat on Sunday night left the French Socialist party in disarray and searching for someone to blame. There is hardly a shortage of scapegoats.

It is the party’s third consecutive presidential

How dumb can dumb get?  In the case of Sheryl Crow, it is pretty dumb.  From the Puffington Post:

We have risen to great heights of arrogance in our refusal to acknowledge that the earth is changing.

Can Crow

Cliintoniods call it parsing, like the meaning of the word ‘is.” Normal folks just call it lying.  B.J. Clinton could lie with finese.  Alas, Mrs. Clinton lacks her husbands language skill.

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