Blacks Face New Pressures in Congress

David D. Kirkpatrick offers an interesting roadmap for the next two years,  “Power in Congress brings blacks new pressures:”

Here are some raw numbers:

WASHINGTON: The impending Democratic takeover of Congress in early January will elevate more blacks

You’ll recall when I left the last evening my wife was still having problems with a loss of her mother’s canary. She had been saying for years that when those birds went she didn’t want any more.  But, LO and

 Thomas Sowell discusses “Hollywood Economics:”

It is not really news that Hollywood is still producing anti-business movies, but there is a certain irony in it nevertheless.

Although these movies tap a certain envy and resentment of corporate wealth,

So, “Media Matters” has fallen to quibbling over who first started using a particular phrase denigrating their biggest supporters? 

Summary: In a syndicated column, Bill O’Reilly falsely claimed to have “coined the term ‘San Francisco values.’ ” In fact, the

Let me put this business with Barak Obama into some perspective: Hillary Clinton.

There are a number of Democrats who figure Hillary is going to run… Obama and his supporters among them. My take here is that Obama and his

For various reason all the recommendations of the Nine-Eleven Commission have yet to implemented.  For one, nobody ever elected the commission and they remain accountable to nobody.  Further their elephant size egos dwarf their moles size brains

Yet for reasons

So, now we see the results of the Iraq study commission:

WASHINGTON —AP– A leader of a bipartisan commission on U.S. options in Iraq said the group has agreed on a set of recommendations due next week, and published reports

Hoystory looks at this bit with NBC unilaterally deciding Iraq is in a Civil war, and asks a question I don’t think I’ve seen elsewhere:

The closest comparison to Iraq that I can think of — and it was less

Look, let’s stipulate up front that Glenn Greenwald’s connections to the real world are tenuous at best. But this morning comes one of the finer demonstrations of such:

It really is astonishing to observe as the media fabricates some storyline

Mrs. Pelosi has, apparently, come to her senses. Michele Malkin reports that Representative Alcee Hastings is out of consideration for the chair of the House Intellgence Committee.  I commend Mrs. Pelosi for the move.  The nation will be better

So, I wander over to enemy territory, (know your enemy, and all that) and am faced with:

I have no use for Jim Wallis and I begin to wonder if he really has the interests of Democrats and progressives at

Glenn’s right, here.

Hastings is a particularly bad choice.  Indeed, he’s one of the reasons why I was never too worried about who the republicans chose for their leaders; you just knew the democrats were going to do something worse. 

From today’s USA Today print edition, I have selected a few telling quotes from an article on 7A, ‘Returning rookies reflect on lessons learned’.

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL)

Stock up on toilet paper, because you’re not going to have

The WaPo says that the EPA is going to start regulating Nano-products sold as Germ Killing agents.

The Environmental Protection Agency has decided to regulate a large class of consumer items made with microscopic “nanoparticles” of silver, part of a

When John Kerry disparged the intelligence of our American Fighting Men, it was said that Kerry botched a joke.  Yet was it really a botched joke or just the standard democrat position?.  The incoming chairman of the House Ways and