The End of Independence Day?

A great piece from Mary Grabar at Pajamas Media today. Here’s a bit of it:

But those streets, once havens for displaced persons, soon were destroyed by the utopian plans of collectivists and their agitators who urged the

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

To note the seating of the junior senator from Minnesota, I am holding a contest to suggest the most appropriate term of address of our newed senator and the most appropriate photo.

To  be blunt, I see no reason to

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

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

Eric already blogged on Ricci, but Ace  brings up an amusing point.    While the decision was five to four, along coservative liberal lines, the count was actually nine to zero against the Wise Latina, Sonia Sotomayor, via Ace:

Wise

The democratic portions of the goverment of Honduras have acted to preserve their constitution and oust a wanna be dictatator for life, Mel Zelaya.    So which side does President Barack Obama’s Secretaray of State take?   The same side as Hugo

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

Eric, do we need to file a formal complain in Persian?   Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has stolen our thunder.   Ahmadinejad has taken to mocking the one, fren Andy Barr, Politico:

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad compared Obama on Thursday to former President

The ruling liberal elites don’t mind messing with your healhcare,, because they intend to exempt themsleves for the restriction they intend to impose on you and your familly,    from Jake Tapper, ABC News:

Devinsky asked the president pointedly if

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

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

Prediction: It’ll be a cold day in Hell before Moe Lane ever lauds, Jane Hamsher.

Breaking:  Devil reports sales of Parka at all time record.

Video:

Hat tip and more: Moe Lane, Red State:

Sorry: normally I’d be more