Useless Toady

The Useless Toady goes off the deep end assserting that the Forty-Fourth president will inherit an unprecedented mess:

WASHINGTON — The 44th president will move into the Oval Office with an agenda defined in large part by the 43rd president.

In a society that doesn’t lock up dangerously mentally ill people until they have killed someone, and where Congresscritters are talking about the dangers of terrorists obtaining guns, the last thing we need is more victim-disarmament zones.

Clayton Cramer

Captain Ed, this morning, mentions David Brody’s column this morning in which he discusses Fred Thompson’s take on the uselessness of party platforms.

I tend to agree with the basic position that the party platform has become more of a

By way of Billy Beck, I note Tom Bartlett has decided not to do his column anymore.

In the not-too-distant past, this was impossible. If you didn’t write for a newspaper, it was very hard to get out commentary

Allah Pundit, Hot Air, has the John  Gibson interview with Bill Kristol.. Salty language,  Now having been warned, go read and hear.

Posted without comment.link:

(Los Angeles, California) For the first time the leading candidates for the presidency will hold a televised debate devoted solely to LGBT issues.

The one-hour event will be held on August 9 and broadcast on

• Its hot at the moment, being close to 95 outside.  In my office, here it’s 72. (My office, and my server rooms are in the basement of the house, and therefore my computers and routers and so on all stay

Michelle passes on word of an Airman shot in the heart by an anti-war activist.

Go and see the notes, and then come back.

Patrick Poole rightly notes:

If Airman Schrieken had been an abortionist or homosexual, this story would

WASHINGTON — Louisiana Sen. David Vitter apologized Monday for his telephone number showing up on the old phone records of Pamela Martin and Associates, the alleged prostitution ring run in the nation’s capital by Deborah Jeane Palfrey.

“This was a

MADRID (Reuters) – Women in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona, world-famous for its ferocious bull-running festival, are demanding their own version complete with cows instead of bulls.

You know, there are some ideas which are just too bizarre

The Sister has this up:

HOUSTON â€”  A state lawmaker who opposed a bill giving Texans stronger right to defend themselves with deadly force pulled a gun and shot a man he says was trying to steal copper wiring from

Michelle Malkin:

Go figure:

Foreigners don’t have a high opinion of the United States, owing to the war in Iraq, but that hasn’t done much to deter a ferocious appetite for American goods and services, as had been expected.

Mitt Romeny calls Mrs. Clinton, what she is, a Marxist (video).   Some leftards, T.W. Furman, TPM Cate for one, are none too happy about it..  Furman thinks this Mrs. Clinton quote refutes Romney:

Now, there is no greater force

Little Green Footballs notes:

In their standoff with the Pakistani government, the depraved holy warriors of the Red Mosque in Islamabad have surrounded themselves with children: Brainwashed children plead to die as martyrs in Red Mosque siege.

SAIMA KHAN

The Jawa Report:

(Toledo, Ohio) From a report citing a Blade article, the Lucas County Democrat Party golf outing at a public course last Friday featured local strippers providing drinks and entertainment. One official remarked that “he witnessed one woman