Thanksgiving Thoughts

Just some thoughts on this Thanksgiving day.

Perhaps some of you are unaware of the origins of this day being set aside as a national day of Thanksgiving.

Also, you may not know that Ol’ Ben Franklin wanted to make

Michael van der Galiën:

Of course, the problem isn’t that Fox News is biased, it’s that the bias isn’t liberal / Laborite. No, the real problem is that Fox News has a conservative bias. If the news network was

I’m starting to see an awful lot in the way of back channel chatter about Sybil Edmonds again.  In the last several weeks I’ve had at least three different people writing me, saying that I had to be delighted to

Times are tough for the Republican Party and its candidates. Earlier this month, according to Gallup, more people strongly disapproved of George W. Bush than any previous president since the advent?of polling—and, really, how could things be any different? Bush

I’ve gone to some lengths to point up where Hollywood has failed us by turning left. My favorite Jersey Girl, Michelle, points up that Hollywood may seem the monolithic leftist bloc.. but it’s not…

We do a lot of Hollywood-bashing

I didn’t see much of the debate last night, and very little of the reax this morning, so far. There’s a lot of it on Memeorandum… I’ve just not had time to look.

However, it doesn’t take a mystic to

David Hill… who has really got to consider a non de plume, if he’s going to continue working at The Hill, says:

While Texan Ron Paul’s stock is soaring nationally, there is trouble on the home front. In September,

Ace of Spades says:

Looks like the Saturday night box office estimates are in and while Lions for Lambs basically doubled its take from Friday, $6.7 million in box office is only good for 4th place.

A distant 4th

Found at Donklephant:

Frum:

“Just noticed that Andrew Sullivan opines that I am “rattled” by Paul’s haul. Personally, I think it is Andrew who has been “rattled” by being caught in yet another of his careless or reckless errors

Poor Paul Krugman...

So there’s a campaign on to exonerate Ronald Reagan from the charge that he deliberately made use of Nixon’s Southern strategy. When he went to Philadelphia, Mississippi, in 1980, the town where the civil rights workers

Is Ron Paul’s position on defense… Whacko Leftist?

Yes.   And, Yes.

We’ve spoken several times in these spaces as regards Joe Liberman, and the treatment he’s been getting at the hands of Democrats for supporting the Iraq war effort.  We’ve also mentioned many times that the Democrats and the mainstream media

False Confessions They’ve always been the point of torture, and always will be.

In a CIA sub-station close to al Libi’s jail cell, the CIA’s “debriefers,” who had been talking to al Libi for days after his return from Cairo,

Sister Toldjah says in a post from yesterday:

The discussions over Hillary Clinton’s use of the victim card after her poor performance at last week’s Democratic presidential candidate debate haven’t died down. In fact, they seem to be intensifying.

There’s

An interesting note from Glenn today. He’s apparently come to the very same conclusion I came to years ago:

DO NOT TRUST CONTENT FROM ANDREW SULLIVAN: I can’t go around answering all of Andrew Sullivan’s misrepresentations, but it’s telling that