Art Smith on “The Beanwalker Live!”

I will be a guest on “The Beanwalker Live!” this Tuesday at 3:00 PM Central Time.  This is an internet only radio station, which you can find at http://macsworldlive.com. If you miss it, there will be a podcast of it

The use of the death of Ted Kennedy in support of the Democrats and their socialist-style takeover of our healthcare system has been widely noted and decried. It’s crass, at least. Cynical, as well. But it shows us just how

At least when Jimmy Carter uttered his unintended, but instantly infamous,  tag line for his administration, malaise, he used a word befitting a graduate of the United States Naval Academy.   Alas poor Barack Obama has no such luck.   Obama has

I’ll probably get in trouble with Eric for even mentioning the name of the twit  Meghan McCain, but I am bored and feel like swatting a gnat.   Miss McCain notes in the Daily Beast:

So Michelle Malkin successfully rounds

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

Bumper Snicker of the Day:

TEA’D Off (Taxed Enough Already)

As seen my my Mk II’s.

Bumber Snicker II, American Power:

MY TEA IS BREWED WITH

100% HOMEGROWN,

BLUE-JEANED,

RIGHTEOUS,

INDIGNATION!!

Cold Cash Convicted, from Paul

An interesting, if occasionally infuriating piece from Michael Ledeen at Pajamas Media this morning.  A snip and a couple comments:

I studied fascism primarily because I wanted-desperately-to understand how so many people could have appeased it.  Did they-and by

I’ve been pretty much silent on this berth are controversy since its beginning, making only an occasional comment, preferring instead to let DavidL take the lead.  In any event I am pretty much in agreement with what he has been

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

Send  in the clowns, there ougbt to be clowns, video:

And there are.   Didn’t clowns used to funny?

Hat tip:  Gateway Pundit.

Kim Jong Il, North Korea’s leader, has life-threatening pancreatic cancer, a news report said on Monday, days after fresh images of him looking gaunt spurred speculation that his health was worsening following a reported stroke last year, reports AP

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

The news is not all Wacko Jacko, all the time, from Karen Araize, NBC Philadelphia:

More than 60 campers from Northeast Philadelphia were turned away from a private swim club and left to wonder if their race was the