Nightly Ramble: the Fallout From the Move, Spring Duty,Mugabe, Ubuntu, WalMart, More

• I wasn’t exactly goig through withdrawal symptoms over the weekend, while the site servers got moved physically… but damned near that. At least a dozen times I saw something that screamed out to be written up for the blog, and

Matthew Daneman, writing the the Rochester, NY Democrat and Chronicle:

More than 60 years after cultural icon Rosie the Riveter symbolized women’s emergence in the workplace, the state’s corporate boardrooms and corner offices remain largely a boys-only club.

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Is Barack Obama a middle of the road, moderate, politician who can bring the two Americas of John Edwards together?   In a word, no!   However BO plays one on the campaign trail.    Kenneth P. Vogel, Polito,

During his first

OK, I’ve gotta give Joe Lieberman credit. From Time this morning:

Well, I say that the Democratic Party changed. The Democratic Party today was not the party it was in 2000. It’s not the Bill Clinton-Al Gore party, which was

By way of John Hawkins’ Conservative Grapevine, we get news that backs something Ive been saying for weeks now. I’ve been saying that we’re about to see a massive price drop… that even exclusive of any major finds, that

Hume, on Friday: 

The left-wing blog Think Progress has had to eat its words after claiming presidential candidate John McCain plagiarized.

An entry posted Thursday – under the heading “Corrupt Establishments” – claims that McCain lifted parts of a speech

Michelle notes that the charges against Lance Cpl Stephen Tatum have been dropped.

By the Marines… not by Democrat Jack Murtha, who accused the Marines of murdering people in cold blood.

Where’s Jack Murtha now?

Certainly, he is not where

From the Telegraph, today:

Plans for Al Gore to take the Democratic presidential nomination as the saviour of a bitterly divided party are being actively discussed by senior figures and aides to the former vice-president.

The bloody civil war

It still seems a long shot, but could Rudi Guiliani still make to the White House, in 2013?    New York has been a stepping stone for governors aspiring to become president, both Roosevelt’s,  Thomas Dewey, and even George Pataki.    The

• John Venlet showed up to play, yesterday. Nice to see you, John. Missed ya. He says he’s going to be posting quite a bit in the next several weeks, apparently focusing on the mortgage industry.
• Me at Q&O today, about

It is funny that while Mrs. Clinton has been claiming, albeit with rather dubious success, foreign poliicy experienc she simply does not have, she has not yet claimed experience she does have.   Mrs. Clinton meet with a spy for Saddam

Hume, last night:

The United Nations Human Rights Council was supposed to be better than the old Human Rights Commission, which became famous for bias and hypocrisy. Now the same charge is being leveled at the new body

The council

When it rains, it pours and disgraced former New York governor Eliot Spitzer is in sore need of an umbrella.  Jame Schram et al, New York Post:

Disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been identified as a long-standing client

Bit Rambled about Chelsea Clinton.   Now I grant you that it is not comfortable being questioned about your parents’ integrity or lack thereof.   However Miss Clinton is endorsing and campaigning for her mother, Mrs. Clinton.   The character of a

• Yeah, I guess you’re right, Bruce. McCain couldn’t get a better endorsement.
• I’m not sure about Nancy Regan’s endorsement, however.
• I see Boortz’ web wench saying:
  

  Chelsea Clinton says that this college student was the first person to