Fred Apogizes

Fred08 has issued the following apology:

From Karen Hanretty, Deputy Communications Director:

In light of Mike Huckabee’s heartfelt apology to Mitt Romney for making reference to Romney’s religion in the New York Times Magazine, we at the Thompson Campaign would

It really has been mortifying to watch The National Review going supine for nothing but the value of winning the next election. That they would endorse Mitt Romney is just pathetic, and a glaring sign of the times. Kathryn Jean

OKLAHOMA CITY — (AP)- A wintry storm caked America’s center with a thick layer of ice, blacking out more than 600,000 homes and businesses, and more icy weather was on the way. At least 17 deaths in Oklahoma and Missouri

Melissa, guesting over at Right Wing News:

Can identity politics get any more ridiculous? In trying to establish cred with minorities, civil rights leader Andrew Young says what could be nominated for the most ridiculous quote this electoral season:

In

From Little Green Footballs:

In 2002, Nancy Pelosi was a member of a bipartisan group that was made aware of harsh interrogation techniques being used with Islamic terrorists in US custody—and the group not only approved of the tactics (including

Me at Q&O where Dale Franks is properly agonizing over ‘torture’:

Do we really want the government to do “unpleasant, unsavory and sometimes awful things” in the defense of our freedom?

I am amazed that a veteran of our military

The fallout continues from Bernie Ward’s arrest on child porn charges.  San Jose Mercury News:

Ward’s lawyer told KGO the alleged pornography involves research Ward did more than four years ago for a book.

“He was doing research,” said

WaPo:

The U.S. Attorney in Manhattan formally indicted one-time Hillary Clinton fundraiser Norman Hsu today, laying out what prosecutors described as a “massive fraud scheme” that allegedly left investors in Hsu’s fictitious clothing businesses taken to the tune of $20

I’m back.   The computer got hit by a nasty virus.  Actually had to watch television and read books. 

 Speaking of returns. he’s back, and blacker than ever, from the Baltimore Sun:

Don Imus returned to the airwaves yesterday, eight

The New York Times is reporting:

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 —New York Times- A new assessment by American intelligence agencies concludes that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and that the program remains frozen, contradicting judgment two years ago

There’s an old adage which states that the reason that PETA goes after rich women in furs, as opposed to motorcycle gangs wearing leather, is because the latter is far more likely to get one killed outright.

I have to

WASHINGTON —FOX- Former Illinois Republican Rep. Henry Hyde, a strong foreign policy and anti-abortion voice in Congress and a leader of House impeachment proceedings in 1998, died Thursday. He was 83.

Hyde served in the House of Representatives for 32

McQ gets into a fairly well detailed examination of our energy policy woes:

We hear (and have heard) political promises to make the US “energy independent” by x number of years coming from all the current presidential candidates. And

“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,” he used to say. “You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.

–J.R.R. Tolkien

No,

From Investors Business Daily:

Leaders: Time was, a French leader who dared to defy that nation’s all-powerful unions could end up without a political future. Well, Nicolas Sarkozy stared down the mighty transport workers — and the union blinked.