Eliot Spitzer: Governor Who Would be Emperor

This story was all too predictable.   As New York State Attorney General, Eliot Spitzer operated as an arrogant jerk.   Spitzer’s M.O. was to file civil law suits against citizens for no violation of the law, and coherse a out court

( Arizona Republic)- Oh, for the days when Arizona’s high school students could roll pizza dough, sweep up sticky floors in theaters or scoop ice cream without worrying about ballot initiatives affecting their earning power.

That’s certainly not the case

For years, ‘Dr’ Gillian McKeith has used her title to sell TV shows, diet books and herbal sex pills. Now the Advertising Standards Authority has stepped in. Yet the real problem is not what she calls herself, but the mumbo-jumbo

 Abraham Lincoln, A House Divided:

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year since

John McCain is on record as saying that money in politics corrupts.  A year ago, McCain went to court to prevent what he said were ends runs around his anti free speech, McCain-Feingold.  Today, McCain makes the same end run

Richard Gray, the Science Correspondent for the Sunday Telegraph:

Man-made climate change may be happening at a far slower rate than has been claimed, according to controversial new research.

Scientists say that cosmic rays from outer space play a far

McQ notes Mona getting back into the act.

Of particular note to me, was a rather interesting claim of hers;

I was at my “own site,” a group blog owned by Jon Henke, and I was one of Jon’s recruits.

Can Mrs. Pelosi handle the pressure of breaking the marble ceiling?   Judge for  yourself, view video here, read about it here.

In this one video clip, Mrs. Pelosi, plays the dumb blonde card, “I don’t even know the

Jules Crittenden:

I’ve been ignoring the big talk about Pentagon intel before this because, to put in bluntly, it doesn’t mean anything nor does it change anything.  Then or now.  It is simply a stick, and not a very impressive

When President Ronald Reagan called the former Soviet Union, the “Evil Empire”, the leftiests soiled their dippers. Now in Poland private citizens want to erect a monument to Reagan:

Opponents of Poland’s former communist regime reportedly want to pay

The website Think Progress did the blogospheric equivilent of cleaning latrines.   The site counted cable network references to the Anna Nicole Smith.    The count:  MSNBC; 170 references; CNN. 141 and Fox 112.  

My question, which count would you consider indicative

Some of you will have noticed by now a major change in the way Bitsblog handles rollovers on links.  If you pause for a moment over a link, Bitsblog will now give you a preview of the page you are

It’s been a while since I’ve linked Iowa Hawk.

I will this, however.

NSFW, but funny as all get out.. because it’s got a grain of truth at the middle.

Appendum:  (David L)   Jim Geraghty, Hillary Spot, asks,

On the campaign trail, John Edwards is fond of talking about Two America’s, one rich, one poor.  Recently to bolster his campaign Edwards hired two left wing bloggers, Amanda Marcotte, Pandagon, and Melissa McEwan, Shakespeare’s Sister Edwards then proceed

It’s not like history isn’t replete with this kind of thing.

And of course, our own left snuggles up to him.

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