Air Crash Near Buffalo, 50 Dead

Word from just west of Casa de Bit:

Clarence, NY (WBEN) — 49 people died late Thursday in the crash of a Continental plane in Clarence Center. WBEN Reporters Barbara Burns and Tom Puckett were both on scene as they

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No matter what, we keep on truckin’.

Gonna get cold up where again this weekend, though it’s nearly 40 at the moment, ,

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Hope your weekend was a good one. We’ve got lots of ground to cover, so let’s get to this.

• Barack Hussein Obama and George

Hanson:

“I don’t know why Obama’s supporters object to the airing of these quotes. His past views, his tax plan, and other spontaneous offerings (‘Spread the wealth around’) are a fair enough representation of a European socialist view of how

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• Yeah, yeah, yeah… I know, Colin Powell. All the rage over the weekend. I don’t think there’s much argument against the idea that there’s a

Here’s a transcript of last night’s debate.

If I get time, there’s a number of points I’d like to break out of it.  But for now, a quick overview of who won and who lost.

If there’s one thing that

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• Tonight is the final debate between BO and McCain.  The obvious lean is for some serious fireworks to occur, but I wonder if

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Tuesday. 28 days until the election.4 days until my vacation, and about 5 hours to the second debate. And if you don’t understand the joke

CNN investigative reporter: “But the relationship between Obama and Ayers went much deeper, ran much longer, and was much more political than Obama said.”

OK. I’ve now seen it all. CNN exposes the lies of a Democrat. They even interviewed

Much has been said about Obama Ayers, but not nearly enough, in my view.

This morning, David Bernstein looks at the subject, and says it well:

Obama is an extremely ambitious man. He’s been interested in a national political career

Welcome to the deepest daily read in the ‘sphere… the Nightly Ramble. Lots going on, today… we’ve covered most of the business with the bailout bill, but there’s a lot of other stuff going on too… let’s get to

• Been thinking about this one most of the day, Billy, and I must say,I can’t say I disagree with any of it. The Dinosaur media is sinking because of one major factor: Their bias. McClatchy is just one more in

• YetAnotherJohn gets a first place, and I get an Honorable Mention at OTB’s Caption Contest. It must be said, John has a nice touch for that kind of thing.
• I’ve noted a shift in the readership of BitsBlog the

Back along about the end of 2006, during a  Christmas break, I wrote an extended piece about Islam and some of the problems in the world with relation to it. I’ll post it here, because I think it’;s ideas are

(From The Conservative Reader)

Well, it took almost 3 months, but Congress finally passed the bill Saturday, on older version of which was  passed by the House in May, after some considerable back and forth between the Senate