Wacko Jacko, Michael Jackson; is to buried today Jammie Wearing Fool notes the media Wacko Jacko overloadf, ”It Was An Orgy of Glorification‘
After the first day or so of the Michael Jackson coverage I felt the same
Word from Channel 4 (NBC) in the DC area
D.C. councilman and former mayor Marion Barry was arrested Saturday night and charged with stalking a woman, police said.
The United States Park Police said Barry was arrested in Washington after
I warned earlier today that the damage to our country from the Democrats would be downright staggering. Robert Zubrin, writing in Roll Call today, makes the point there, amply:
The United States emits about 9 billion tons of CO2
As goes Energy, so goes the country.

“The worse, the better,” Vladimir Lenin is said to have observed. What Lenin meant was that the worse social conditions became in Russia, the more likely he and the Bolsheviks could foment a
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This war is lost. We need an exit strategy:
DETROIT (AP) — Gunmen in a green minivan opened fire on a group of teenagers waiting at a bus stop near a Detroit school on Tuesday, wounding at least
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
The Washington Post website is reporting:
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has ruled that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as
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From The Canadian Press:
HAMILTON— A critically-ill premature-born baby from Hamilton is all alone in a Buffalo, N.Y., hospital after she was turned away for treatment at local facility and transferred across the border without her parents, who don’t have
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From the Washington Post this morning, comes word that the Obama administration is asserting it’s right to hold detainees involved in a wartime situation indefinitely. There are several angles on this, so stay with me here.
Obama administration officials,
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Jackson, Eric rambled quite a bit about the late Michael Jackson. Much too much to quote.
First some perspective. Did I tell you I hate Jonah Goldberg. Nobody should be able to write his well at one thirty in
As I predicted here this afternoon, it came down to less than 10 votes… 219 to 212, Eight Republicans backed the bill, and 44 Democrats voted against it.
Every one of the people who voted for this bill should be
Steven Dinan, Washington Times:
The White House has rescinded the invitations to Iranian diplomats to attend July 4 celebrations at U.S. embassies around the world.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said nobody from Iran RSVPed to come, and
I haven’t felt this worth commenting on, but…
The State newspaper in South Carolina is reporting that Gov. Mark Sanford, R-S.C., has been located as of Wednesday morning — in the Atlanta airport.
That’s after his whereabouts were unknown
A common description of the one’s presser was “testy”. Here a flavor from, Michael Scherer, Time:
Jackson was not the only reporter the President cut off. When NBC’s Chuck Todd asked for the second and third time what consequences

