Rightosphere Temperature Check

John Hawkins has his latest Rightosphere Temperature Check. Among those answering the poll:

Aaron’s CC, Absinthe & Cookies, The Absurd Report, The American Princess, Argghhhh!, AtlanticBlog, Atlas Shrugs, BillHobbs, Bit’s Blog,

DURHAM, N.C. —AP- Disgraced former prosecutor Mike Nifong acknowledged Thursday there is “no credible evidence” that three Duke lacrosse players committed any of the crimes he accused them of more than a year ago, offering for the first time a

Blackfive is saying that Scott Thomas of TNR fame and fable, is Scott Thomas Beauchamp.

Bryan over at HotAir confirms, saying:

He’s Private Scott Thomas Beauchamp, a member of Alpha Company, 1/18 Infantry, Second Brigade Combat Team, First Infantry

A “biparistan” bill is a democrat sponsored bad idea with a useful idiot republican as a obstensive co-sponsor.   Not content to attempt to strangle free speech on the public airwave, democrats are now proposing to regulate private speech.  Adam Thomas

The mind is such a terrible thing to waste, and with Glenn Greenwald there is a lot of wasted gray matter.  Alas

Greenwald loses it:

One of the lowest and most dishonest tactics is to attempt to smear and

The subject of motorcycles and accidents thereon has come up over at Billy’s place.

Here is something that I think is true: people who have never been in a bike crash have a very difficult — nearly impossible — time

Michiael Gerson, at the end of last month at the WaPo, posted a column that I think should be read into the record in both houses of Congress as a warning… for those who think that our pulling out

Jackie Calmes at the WSJ is reporting:

WASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain’s media team has resigned, an indication that a campaign shake-up two weeks ago is continuing to backfire and further imperil the Arizona Republican’s presidential candidacy.

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When Eliot Spitzer played the Sheriff of Wall Street, his targets lacked the ability to fight back.  Well Spitzer has learned that his new target, State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, has the power to fight back and intends to

Derb says at The Corner:

Jonah: Your argument on Iraq—basically, that, as some Secretary of State or other said, we broke it, so we oughta fix it—is nontrivial.  It lacks general appeal, though, and is probably a big vote-loser.

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Should a law be established, with penalties in the form of fines and incarceration, which dictates that individuals are legally bound to dial 911 if they stumble upon a situation wherein an innocent individual’s life is in danger of being

Interesting response from NATO, to the questioning of Chuck Simmins, about why they don’t publish numbers of enemy dead.

It is ISAF policy not to release enemy lossses. This is not a measure of success for us.

Ummmmm…. Yeah….

About time…

WaPo- NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell yesterday ordered quarterback Michael Vick not to report to training camp with the Atlanta Falcons until the league has reviewed his legal troubles stemming from federal dogfighting charges.

Vick’s playing status is to

James Taranto has an op ed up as of yesterday that will interest those of you who noted our posting on the Joe Bruno/Elliot Spitzer/Andrew Cuomo thing here in NY, yesterday.

Culture of Corruption
Imagine if top aides to President

We were warned, last year, that we were going to have a monster of a hurricane season.  The proximate cause, we were told, was global warming.  Of course, that fizzled.  And the beginning of 2017 along, and the usual suspects