“THE AMERICANS WHO RISKED EVERYTHING”

From Rush H. Limbaugh, Jr. (Father of notable EIB radio host, Rush.)
“…our lives, our fortunes, our sacred honor…”
It was a glorious morning. The sun was shining and the wind was from the southeast. Up especially early, a tall,

Usually, when McQ breaks out the “Project Hero” header, there’s a medal involved. IN this case, not so. Yet, the kind of courage exhibited by Sgt Merlin German, deserves to be honored, nonetheless. McQ tells the tale.

Project Hero,

• Interesting post over at OTB on the finding of a possible cause for homosexuality. this raises all the poits I raised as  far back as 1998, as you’ll see in the comments, there.  Oh, they’re apparently getting very close indeed

I’ve gotten several questions over the years about how to get traffic on the blog. We’ll file this under FAQ. Here’s my response;

•  You can post an article called “How to get huge traffic for your blog”  Hey, it got

• I note Bruce McQuain pointing out yet another obvious case of anti-oil bias, this time from the AP. Well, big freakin’ shock, eh? I have long since become convinced that most of the anti-oil hysteria we see from the left

• I complained last night that Memeorandum had been pretty much ignoring BitsBlog. Apparently, someone there is reading, and they reacted. The post complaining about being ignored, got featured status. Gottena  few links through since then, a well. Nice to

In war, and politics, everything is expendable.  It one time, BO needed the Trinity Baptist Church to establish his political blackness.  Well BO got his blackness and he has now thrown the Trinity Baptist Church under his campaign bus:

ABARDEEN,

Mrs. Clinton’s scorched earth policy, Boston Globe:

LAST YEAR at the beginning of the presidential primary season, Democrats were giddy with excitement. Not only did we have an embarrassment of riches in our candidates but we had two

BitsBlog has been having problems with the XML-Sitemap plugin, for the last couple of months. This is a plugin that creates a comlete site listing for Google and other search engines, so they know what’s going on here. saves them

Added a couple BitsBlog functions tonight.

I don’t know if I’ll keep them, but let’s try them and see.

The first one is “BitsBlog Tags”. These are collections of posts that the system thinks are related to the current topic.

John Hawkins has posted  the results of his informal polling on “The 25 Most Influential People On The Right According To Conservative Bloggers”

BitsBlog participated. I’ll have some thoughts on this later this morning, and doubtless will have further in

Some of you may have noted elements of the blog that were missing around 7pm to 730pm eastern tonight.

I had a software update blow up on me, and I had to revert to tape. We never went down outright,

This week, McQ passes along the amazing story of MSG Brendan O’Connor, putting together bits of the story from several sources. As always, worth a read.

Project Hero, is a worthy attempt on McQ’s part to remind us

Word from just down the road in Buffalo, that Johnathan Cote was laid to rest today.
Cote was a civilian worker in Iraq, who was kidnapped back in 06.

A salute to you, and your co-workers, Jon, and

Mark Steyn provides interesting reading this morning:

The Australian columnist Pamela Bone died of cancer this weekend. She was a feminist, an atheist and most of the other -ists you might expect from a western woman of her general disposition