Stalin Voted Third Most Popular Figure By the Russians…. Today

A funny post happened over at the Opinion Forum:

Imagine reading this headline: “German People Vote Adolf Hitler Third Most Popular German Historical Figure.”

Can you really imagine that? The international condemnation against such an act would be immediate,

We’ve recently watched as Israel and Hamas have slugged it out.  As always, when Israel seeks to defend itself, there have been many saying Israel’s response to Hamas has not been “proportional”. 

What is, in fact, a proportional response?.  Any

Here’s David Freddoso at The Corner, upon hearing Kit Bond (R) Missouri is retiring at the end of his term:

That will open up a tough seat for Republicans to defend. They have had a bad streak in Missouri statewide

This morning’s Washington Post tells us far more than it intends:

As a top official at the White House in 1996, Richard A. Clarke was looking for an ally after concluding that the CIA and FBI needed an additional $1

If there is any indication that the Barack Obama and his foreign policy and homeland security efforts simply cannot be taken seriously it is the appointment of Leon Panetta as the director of the CIA.

Mr. Obama owes the American

In doing my morning rounds this morning I notice that there’s an awful lot of traffic on Michelle’s place this morning with regards to Habitat for Humanity.  An example:

The battle has been brewing for some time. A quick Google

Me at Q&O just now, on the bit with Caroline Kennedy and the senate seat here in NY:

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I’m not totally convinced that the issue is one of entitlement, or dynasty, or anything of that sort. I suspect

Surfing the Washington Times, this morning, I happen across Andrew Breitbart.  I’d heard about the incident he writes about, here, but hadn’t given it much thought, until now.

Anyone who has attended a frat party will have an

“Chambliss’s victory assures the GOP of at least 41 Senate seats. It also lays to rest one of the nastiest McCarthyite smears of recent times: the repeated assertion by Democrats and the

The London Daily Mail’s Ian Gallagher:

The only terrorist captured alive after the Mumbai massacre has given police the first full account of the extraordinary events that led to it – revealing he was ordered to ‘kill until the last

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This feed will be a technology news feed, and we think you’ll find it of interest. Find it in the BitsBlog NewsRoom, along with

Over at OTB, James points to an AP feed which reports they’ve banned ‘Happy Hour” in the UK. Obviously, the stated concerns are health-related.

It must, however, be asked if Government isn’t overstepping it’s bounds here?  More correctly, perhaps is

In this morning’s Financial Times:

The US government rode to the rescue of Citigroup, entering an agreement to guarantee up to $306bn in problematic assets and inject $20bn in capital to restore confidence in a bank that defines the

Here’s a partial list we’ve gotten here of stores and their plans after the first of the year:

• Circuit City (filed Chapter 11)
• Ann Taylor 117 stores nationwide closing
• Lane Bryant, Fashion Bug ,and Catherine’s to close 150 stores nationwide

This Ain’t Hell…

So, this morning, reading my usual news sources, I find on Michelle Malkin and Moonbatterythat some whining cry baby sued eHarmony, the online dating service, because they didn’t have opportunities for same-sex singles to meet. CNN