Nightly Ramble: The Truck Stop Edition

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This is the Truck Stop Edition

• The Fairness Doctrine in Acton:  Seems Crazy Uncle Hugo has decided to shut down the last

Interesting note from Don Surber this morning.

But the real inappropriate relationships in last year’s presidential campaign were between ACORN and the campaigns of both Obama and Democrat Hillary Clinton.

The Times ignored that story. Unlike the McCain affair,

Melissa Clouthier makes an argument at Pajamas Media that I’ve been making,…. both here and there… for quite some time, now:

I’m tired of Mike Huckabee, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Tom Ridge, and the rest of them. I’m tired of

I know Eric already rambled on Colin Powell.   However, I am still going stick my two cents,   For the record, Chris Strohm, Congress Daily

The Republican Party is in big trouble and needs to find a way to move back

Rick Moran, writing at Pajamas Media, this morning asks an interesting question:

If Reagan Tolerated GOP Moderates, Why Can’t Today’s Conservatives?

Well, Rick, given the treatment Reagan and his legacy are now getting at the hands of the supposed

To begin with, let’s get a snip of this morning’s op-ed up on National Review:

Arlen Specter belongs to a type familiar to Congress: the time-serving hack devoid of any principle save arrogance. He has spent three decades in the

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This is the Roadside Cafe edition

• The magical disappearing tax cut: One of the things that did come out of that presser

From Jen Rubin at Commentary:

Jake Tapper appears to be one of the few (only?) mainstream reporters keeping current on the Chas Freeman story. You would think it would be hard to ignore the growing tidal wave of protest

Me to John Hawkins, just now:

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Magnus Anderson makes an excellent point.

Maybe we are challenged both by a general trend of “modern” relativistic thinking, which we havn’t been anaware as we should as well as a slippery slope

Over at Pajamas Media, this morning,  I examine the apparent rift between Republican grassroots and the Republican elite at CPAC.

One such respondent placed his objections within the framework of the Republican Party being the middle-class party and therefore

Melisa Clouthier:

Will he be president? He didn’t answer when I asked him.

Hmmm.
We can certainly do a lot worse.Wwe could, for example, nominate John McCain again.  Or, one of his clones.

I am frankly a little annoyed over

James Joyner points to an article at Next Right I noticed last night.

Patrick Ruffini decries the “Joe-the-Plumberization of the GOP.”

If you want to get a sense of how unserious and ungrounded most Americans think the Republican Party is,

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 This is the firehouse edition, for no reason other than I can.

• Destroying the mobile middle class: I’ve said it before; Our

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This is the “Like a freight train” edition. Always wanted to do a train, just never got around to it. The 3/4 shots,

I’ve got a new post up at Pajamas Media, this morning, encompassing Obama, the Herd Mentality, and offering some serious reccomendations to Republicans for the future:

Ronald Reagan, for all that he was and did for this country, could