Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read on the ‘sphere… Bit’s Blog’s Nightly Ramble
- Remember Obama’s charge that someone at a McCain rally had yelled “Kill him”? Yeah, Obama’s been mouthing that tale as has the Oobama
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So, now, it starts. You knew it hadda happen. Once we saw this business in Knoxville, you just knew the left was going to attach itself to the happening like a vampire bat. All the liberal hotbuttons are there
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Marie Colvin at The London Times, reports on troop movements and successes in Iraq. Of course nobody in the domestic press has bothered to notice, since apparently success isn’t the picture the domestic mainstream media has decided it wants
Over at The Politico, this morning, I note with interest a bit from James Kirchick, describing the fable of Republican smear tactics. (As an aside, interestingly, Kirkpatrick’s the New Republic’s assitant editor)
The only obstacle between Barack Obama
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- Did you see this about Pfleger? Michelle Malkin points this up, today:
Say it with me: Boo-freaking-hoo. Via the Chicago Sun-Times’ Cathleen Falsani:
Pfleger has apologized for “the words that I chose” and for “my dramatization.” Pfleger told me he
James Joyner reads the New York Times, apparently, so that you don’t have to. This morning, he notes:
Elizabeth Edwards, who despite no public policy credentials other than having been married to a one-term senator and yet oddly seems
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The mainstream media makes the case for John McCain, kind of, sort of. The case against Barack Obama(BO), Bob Hebert, New York Times:
[T]here can be no denying that an awful lot of Mr. Obama’s troubles have come from
- This has been on my radar screen for a while. But that’s where it has stayed. I’ve been frozen by it and haven’t written a word on it. Apparently that is also where it has stayed, if it got that
Today’s the day.
Hillary Clinton either wins it all, or fails one of the several tests today, and is forced within a week or two to leave the race. THe latter happening, I cannot say I will complain about, though
Fran at Eternity Road makes an interesting point:
Let us have a look at an AP story from yesterday, Lawmakers Crack Down on Abusive Teachers. As always, I encourage you to read the whole article for yourself and draw
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- James Joyner notes the passage of another milestone… 24 million. He’s up to a million hits per month, now. I suppose this to be a good bench test for WordPress. Congrats from here, James.
- With the new job, my posting
John Hawkins deals with a reader’s question about why the ‘sphere hasn’t been more effective in this campaign:
First of all, it is correct to say that the blogosphere’s two favorite candidates have been Duncan Hunter and Fred Thompson, both
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McQ, over at Q&O, notes progress in Iraq… progress tha very few in the MSM will ever notice:
Another real indication of progress in Iraq:
Iraq’s western province of Anbar, hotbed of the Sunni Arab insurgency for the first four
Time Magazine continues to dig a deeper hole. Hume last night:
Putin Up a Fight
The naming of Russian President Vladimir Putin as TIME magazine’s “Person of the Year” is drawing some fire from the right.
Dean Barnett of the
WASHINGTON -AP- The Democratic-controlled House is expected to give President Bush an end-of-session victory in his yearlong battle with anti-war lawmakers over Iraq by approving $70 billion for U.S. military operations there and in Afghanistan.The vote Wednesday also would represent
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