Payback for Pardons

Well, now….. Just a few hours before Hillary Clinton is to face both the press and her opponents for the Democratic Nomination, ABC news is asking some interesting questions, which will doubtless play heavy tonight:

Three recipients of controversial 11th-hour

David Hill… who has really got to consider a non de plume, if he’s going to continue working at The Hill, says:

While Texan Ron Paul’s stock is soaring nationally, there is trouble on the home front. In September,

Poor Paul Krugman...

So there’s a campaign on to exonerate Ronald Reagan from the charge that he deliberately made use of Nixon’s Southern strategy. When he went to Philadelphia, Mississippi, in 1980, the town where the civil rights workers

Here’s a little-used graphic of currently understood domestic oil potential, that the Washington Post ran some months ago:

(Drill the pic for full size)

Now, before you comment on the limitations involved, be aware most of the limits are man

We’ve spoken several times in these spaces as regards Joe Liberman, and the treatment he’s been getting at the hands of Democrats for supporting the Iraq war effort.  We’ve also mentioned many times that the Democrats and the mainstream media

WASHINGTON – The Senate confirmed retired judge Michael Mukasey as attorney general Thursday night to replace Alberto Gonzales, who was forced from office in a scandal over his handling of the Justice Department.

So at the end of the day,

Bruce at Q&O:

  A and an week or so ago, I stated:

We read that polls are telling the Democrats that the mood of the people has swung toward being receptive to more and bigger government. Some argue it’s

Eliot Spitzer has become the third rail of politics.

Michelle Malkin notes:

Lonely. He’s Mr. Lonely. He has nobody to call his ooown:

Democratic members of Congress, having watched Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton stumble on the question of whether states

Says Michael Yon with this photo of his:

A Muslim man had invited the American soldiers from “Chosen” Company 2-12 Cavalry to the church, where I videotaped as Muslims and Christians worked and rejoiced at the reopening of St John’s,

I knew I liked Sarkozy…

Don Surber, by way of Memeorandum :

Sarkozy said it here, but meant it for the French to hear

Wow. I just finished reading Nicolas Sarkozy’s speech to Congress.

He waved the American flag

Alan Dershowitz, guesting at the WSJ today:

Consider, for example, the contentious and emotionally laden issue of the use of torture in securing preventive intelligence information about imminent acts of terrorism–the so-called “ticking bomb” scenario. I am not now talking

Captain Ed notes, , the Mukasey vote, yesterday:

The Senate Judiciary Panel reported Michael Mukasey’s nomination to the full Senate today, recommending confirmation by an 11-8 vote. Chuck Schumer and Dianne Feinstein voted to support , as announced earlier,

Via Library of Economics and Liberty

Arnold Kling highlights a truism of the left in the Great Health Care Debate:

I wrote earlier today about Democrat desperation. It occurrs to me I could break this down a bit, as to what is causing it:

Ever since tellig is they were going to ‘drain the swamp”, and  making all kinds of

Sister Toldjah says in a post from yesterday:

The discussions over Hillary Clinton’s use of the victim card after her poor performance at last week’s Democratic presidential candidate debate haven’t died down. In fact, they seem to be intensifying.

There’s