Nightly Ramble: The Camping Trip, HDTV, Blackwater, More.

• Yeah, I was out all weekend. So, we made the trip over the weekend, to Fair Haven State Park, which is one of the best in the state. There’s a problem, though with the state Reservation system for their campgrounds;

The Chicago Tribune:

BOSTON – Syndicated columnist and former “Crossfire” host Robert Novak has been diagnosed with a brain tumor and is suspending his journalistic work.

The story doesn’t say if there’s a malignancy, there.

I hate to say this

I’m going to break my “No AP feed” rule to make a point, here.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) –A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by conservative radio talk show host Michael Savage against an Islamic civil rights group

(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

John R. Bolton, in the Los Angeles Times:

First, urging greater U.S.-European cooperation, Obama said, “The burdens of global citizenship continue to bind us together.” Having earlier proclaimed himself “a fellow citizen of the world” with his German hosts,

Dirty Harry Reid, and his eco-freak friends, don’t like oil and they don’t like us producing our own oil.   Dirty Harry would have us conserve out way out of current mess.  James Hamilton, Econobrowser, has posted a  long, detailed

Why does the left block US energy development? The answer is their value system is different from the mainstream of the country. But the left’s blocking energy development costs all of us.

Case in point. Do you know how much

Courtesy James Lewis, American Thinker:

For Barack and Michelle Obama, the biggest blind spot is Ego Tripping — the temptations of boastful grandiosity. It’s Obama’s need to be seen as Jesus Christ Superstar. They have to “remake the world,”

• I managed to catch a first place this week at OTB’s Caption Contest.
• for the last week or so, we’ve brought up John Edwards and his scandal. Kaus has been watching this for a while too, all credit to

As always, Professor Althouse is elequent:

I guess we’re not supposed to think about how Obama wanted and still wants to give up on the Iraq war. Surely, if he’d been there in 1948, he would have said the Berlin

BO has a problem taking a clear position.  Meryl Yourish has no such problem:

Obama is using the Holocaust to score rhetorical points. Mind you, he’s not the only person ever to have done so, but I’m calling bullshit on

Barack Obama continues his victory parade before the fact in the Middle East, while the American media attempt hide the fact that BO is clueless.  The Associated Press, like the New York Times, tanks for Obama.  Consider this lede by

Micheal Falcone has written an interesting article for the New York Times, “McCain Ad Takes On Obama Over Gas Prices.”   The close of the article:

Don’t hope for more energy, vote for it. McCain.

BO’s mantra has

Does Barack “BO” Obama understand the nature of democracy? Not according to the angry letter he sent out to supporters of Mrs. Clinton, Greg Sargent, TPM Election Central:

I must confess a bit of fatigue and irritation with people