Road to Hell, Paving Material

Randall Hoven, American Thinker, gives s short primer in how to kill babies and spread disease:

Good intentions and the urge to get something done can lead to disastrous policy. This is true for everyone. But add the power

Some twit, Froma Harrop, thinks a smart energy policy is to pay yet higer taxes

The way to get OPEC out of our lives is to stop buying so much oil, and the way to do that is to

Lying Lizzy, a.k.a. Mrs John Edwards, whines about Ann Coulter, but get a load of this broadside, from Salon:

No, I don’t. I wind up talking about this a lot. My job as the mother of daughters is to

perhaps it’s a little late to be looking at this, now, but Amity Shales in today’s Wall Street Journal as, as the byline says “reconsidering our reverence for FDR.”

It’s about bloody time.

The real question about the 1930s is

No, Bitsblog has not become a Star Trek board and this is not the latest version of Al Gore.  For those who with the immense good sense not to watch Star Trek: The Next Generation, Odo, pictuired, was a Shape

WASHINGTON (AP) – Consumers brushed off rising gasoline prices and slumping home sales to storm the malls in May, pushing retail sales up by the largest amount in 16 months.The Commerce Department reported that retail sales surged by 1.4 percent

Congress has apparently forgotten the ‘Seventies.  Well I have not.  Maybe the public needs a little reminder? 

David Ivanovich, Houston Chronicle, writes of the domestic oil industry media effort to remind voters of h0w stupid Congress was in the

The Glittering Eye, has unquestionably been on the leading edge of this contaminated pet food business, for some time.  The Eye reaches in, and comes up with another comment on it, today:

Most people are not aware of the massive

As you may have determined that by simply reading this morning, on finally going through some of my days old mail.  It’s been kind of money around here, of late, and I haven’t had the chance. A Bit’s Ball Cap

I’m getting mail again, about how I ought to be writing about gas prices.

I’ve already done that.

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About two years ago, I posted a list of causes of high gasoline prices. The situation, has not changed, except for

Here’s a story from today’s WaPo about the demagogue-o-rama triggered by the recent spike in gas prices. Now they’re lining up to blame “big oil” in spite of the fact that most gas stations are mom and pop operations. No

Must have been a slow news day.   The media has a stock of standard stories they periodically dust-off and then foist-off as if they were new.   The nice thing about blogging about them, is that no new creative effort is

Fred Thompson does it again; Shows us exactly the way he thinks… and his prospects continue to rise:

Treasury statistics show that tax revenues have soared and the budget deficit has been shrinking faster than even the optimists projected.

I’ve said it often enough… Unions are killing America.

Here’s yet another example.

I’ve written a few times now, about Fred Thompson, and stated flatly he is someone I could get behind. Mona Charen, who I quote all too infrequently, here at BitsBlog, agrees.

His voting record is solidly conservative. He is articulate,