Nightly Ramble:All This And a Large Fries

Welcome, dear reader, to the most intense nightly read on the ‘sphere: Bitsblog’s Nightly Ramble.

Lots going on.

• So, Ol’ Gaffe-O-Matic Biden and, one assumes, B. O. both think John McCain is wrong on security? Is that why they both

B.J’s fall from gtace, Los Angelos Times:

‘I am not a racist,’ ex-President Bill Clinton asserts
Former presidents get a whole lot of leeway in what they say in public. But former President Bill Clinton just violated one

These Nightly Rambles are all things I’ve found during the day. I input them all day long and auto-post whatever I’ve collected at around 4 to 430 eastern. I put things in here that catch my eye but that perhaps

These Nightly Rambles are all things I’ve found during the day. I input them all day long and auto-post whatever I’ve collected at around 4 to 430 eastern. I put things in here that catch my eye but that perhaps

Erica Wagner at the London Times notes the passage of one of the great voices of freedom: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:

Years of internal exile and suffering never daunted him. The 1962 publication of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Back along about the end of 2006, during a  Christmas break, I wrote an extended piece about Islam and some of the problems in the world with relation to it. I’ll post it here, because I think it’;s ideas are

Joyner notes Kevin Drum:

It’s a pretty good bet that any law named after a child is a lousy one.

He’s referencing “Sarah’s Law” here but he’s right: laws passed in the emotional wake of one very specific crime

Michael D is miffed at Obama for suggesting that the solution for oil supply problems is to find more. Apparently to him, that’s not painful enough for us.

Look, I know that there are people who are suffering because of

Little Green Footballs is on the ball, here, having noticed about half of blogdom is missing… if, that is you’re using IE7… saying about 7pm EDT:

I’ve confirmed that there’s some kind of problem on the Internet, that only seems

A short while ago, my cell phone’s alert went off.  It was DavdL, whose mailnote to me had been forwarded by my mail server to the phone, as I programmed it to do some months ago. figuring if a site

• It’s August, already? Where the hell did July go?   2/3rds of the summer is gone and I’m just getting started on the stuff I wanted to do this year.
• Honorable Mention at OTB’s caption Contest. I gotta admit, that

One definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing expecting a different result. This article by Joel Kotkin presents the data showing the urban cores going more and more for the democrats since 1960. He points out the

A report in this morning’s Wall Street Journal points out:

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is mobilizing its store managers and department supervisors around the country to warn that if Democrats win power in November, they’ll likely change federal law to make

• 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

Me at OTB just now:

 

Oh? What claims then do you think you can honestly make about the success of the surge other than tactical?

Well, the number of provinces now being fully controlled by Iraqi forces leaps to