Nightly Ramble:Ayers Coming Back to Haunt Obama; Biden And Charity,more

Welcome, dear reader, to the most intense nightly read in the ‘sphere… The Nightly Ramble….

A new week. A new Monday. And a few surprises over the weekend. Let’s get to it.

• Sam Youngman at The Hill reports that Sarah

Now to the snarkiest, most densely packed read available anywhere in the blogoshphere, BitsBlog’s Nightly Ramble:

• Art Smith at Conservative Reader notes our buddy McGehee’s back from his Hiatus. Face it, Kev… you’re hooked.
• Another one who is decidedly

As those who can remember back to the 2006 elections realize, the political winds have been favoring the democrats of late. If you take all the ‘generic congressional polls‘ from April of 2005 through today, you get the

• I note with interest, Brian Mahoney over at Radio Equalizer, pretty much echoing my thoughts of  as regards the Knoxville Shooter and the attempt tp attach him to all things right-wing. As Brian says:
  

  Our lefty friends need to decide

Simon Owens over at Blogasm managed to grab an interview with LA Times blog editor Tony Pierce. Yes, that’s the guy who sent the letter that put the kibosh on stories about John Edwards at that Hollywood hotel that’s been

So, now, it starts. You knew it hadda happen. Once we saw this business in Knoxville, you just knew the left was going to attach itself to the happening like a vampire bat. All the liberal hotbuttons are there

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

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

• 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

Looking around over the rim of my coffee mug this morning and noted Martin; McPhillips chatting about the McClellen thing again.

Yes, I noticed the business with toward the end of his tenure at the White House as well, Martin.

Jason Riley at the WSJ, notes that illegal Immigration has disappeared from the election cycle radar screen, and wonders why. He concludes after examining the situation in some detail:

If American culture is under assault today, it’s not from

• At some point, someone with some brains is going to show up and figure out that all the candlelight vigils ever held don’t mean squat for stuff like this. And for that matter, stuff like this. And stuff like this,

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