Jeanne Assam: Hero

It is hard to know where to go on the recent shootings in Colorado.   So I start by saluting the hero Jeanne Asssam.  

Hat Tip:  John, Powerline.

The New York Times , via Memeorandum, reports that Mrs. Clinton’s campaign is looking for dirt on Barack Obama.

If there was any question whether Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign was concerned about the rise of Senator Barack Obama,

Scott at Powerline:

The man who shot up a training center for missionaries and a church in suburban Denver, killing four people and wounding a number of others, has been identified:

A law enforcement official says the deadly rampages

OKLAHOMA CITY — (AP)- A wintry storm caked America’s center with a thick layer of ice, blacking out more than 600,000 homes and businesses, and more icy weather was on the way. At least 17 deaths in Oklahoma and Missouri

Billy Beck asks:

 How in the world does someone get to be the White House Press Secretary and know nothing about the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Simple; they’re not teaching it anymore, particularly in government schools.

And why not?

Because

Mrs. Clinton’s remaining supporters believe she is tough, via Memeorandum:

This isn’t an anti-Hillary crowd. She gets high marks for her experience, intelligence and toughness; these qualities, they suspect, are what voters demand.

Mrs. Clinton’s s supporters are

We’ve had a bit of Email discussion, more or less centered on my most recent post about Mitt Romney. Specifically, the topic ends up being whether not there is a religious test for high office. As a basis for

I commented over the weekend about Sitemeter screwing up.
I got a nice note from the sitemeter folks, saying taht they’d had some database issues with the sm5 database…(Which this site is on) and they’d be OK shortly. It seems

I mentioned, the other day, about how the NBC lawyer who rejected that “thank you to the troops” video, turns out to be rather generous source of donations for congressional Democrats.  Here’s the article I wanted to link to edit

I don’t know if there is a god or if he exists what he wants.   Nobody does.  Yet that does not preclude bigots like Fred Phelps and Mike Huckabee from proclaiming they know what God wants,  Linda S.  Caillouet,  Arkansas

Fellow Swamp Stomper Sister Toldjah, guesting over at Right Wing News:

One of their favorite retired Generals, Major General John Batiste, who appeared in an ad for the anti-war Vote Vets website, and who had an op/ed published on

Melissa, guesting over at Right Wing News:

Can identity politics get any more ridiculous? In trying to establish cred with minorities, civil rights leader Andrew Young says what could be nominated for the most ridiculous quote this electoral season:

In

Twenty-six years is long enough to wait for justice.

Andrew Young, former mayor of Atlanta, former Carter adminstration stooge, and full time fool, has come out with the strangest endorsement I have ever heard.  Basically Young endorsed Mrs. Clinton because her husband, B.J. Clinton, diddled more black women than

Interesting. The New York Times is now reporting that CIA officials were advised not to destroy videotapes of terrorist interrogations:

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 — White House and Justice Department officials, along with senior members of Congress, advised the Central Intelligence