The Balloon Brouhaha And Who Benefits

Micheal Wade over at Q&O asks an interesting question:  Will Balloon Boy Be The New Schiavo?

I truly hope that I’m wrong. That cooler heads will prevail. That, if indeed the parents set this whole thing up as a publicity

A video Snark of the Day:

Everything Bo said is all true.  Otherwise it could not be the Snark of the Day.

You’d think they’d learn, even in far-leftist Portland OR: KATU:

ALBANY, Ore. – At the Oaks Apartments in Albany, the management can fly their own flag advertising one and two bedroom apartments – but residents have been told they

I’m afraid I have to take a chunk out of the backside of Rick Moran:

The Baucus bill hasn’t a chance of surviving a conference committee between the House and Senate. But it might have if the GOP worked to

Most people will remember, I think… at least those not ‘educated’ at government schools… that Hiroshima was hit by a bomb at the end of world war two… and we’ve all seen some of the destruction wrought by that attack.

Great piece yesterday, at The American Thinker by Black conservative Lloyd Marcus:

I am so sick of the Left being allowed to make the rules. Imagine the absurdity of a competition in which one side is allowed to set the

David Boaz has noticed a pattern… one we’ve mentioned here before.

Some people on the left can’t see any excuse for opposition to collectivism except racism. (Which is, of course, as Ayn Rand said, “the lowest, most crudely primitive

The Thirteenth Amendment, to the Constitution of the United States:.

Section. 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any

Frankly I think there are few people on the sphere who bring greater gravitas to the entire matter about the Gates /Crowley affair than Sister Toldjah. Yesterday morning’s post on that point reinforces that perception.

— President Obama expressed “regret”

A disturbing report from the Jerusalem Post‘s Sabrina Amidi:

In a shocking and unprecedented interview, directly exposing the inhumanity of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s religious regime in Iran, a serving member of the paramilitary Basiji militia has told this

Just to show that I have a non-judgemental side, I present  this interesting tale posted by Darleen Click, Protein Wisdom:

There is a good case to be made that Bridget Kevan got a bum deal when she was arrested for

From the New York Post.   The parents of Mayara Rodrigues Tavares, pictured in the red dress above, are just a wee bit upset about how their daughter is being depicted.    Her mother, Lucia Rodrigues:

“Why are they looking at

Dahlia Lithwick at Slate seems among the first to pile onto Ricci, doing some local newspaper investigation.

According to local newspapers, Ricci filed his first lawsuit against the city of New Haven in 1995, at the ripe old age

Great piece at NRO this morning, from David Kahane:

If you had any sense, you would start using our tactics against us. After all, you have a few lawyers on your side. Sue us. File frivolous ethics complaints against all

Bernie Madoff hit the jackpot at sentencing, today… getting the maximum 150 years. The Guardian:

The disgraced financier Bernie Madoff has been sentenced to the maximum 150 years in prison for masterminding a $65bn (£38bn) fraud that wrecked the