Nightly Ramble Monday… It’s Back.. Kinda

Yes, I know, it’s been some time since I’ve cracked an editor open on this site.  It’s shameful, but you guys know the situation.  And anyway, and David is been doing a bang up job of keeping this site active

More is Dumbo Sane? From Linda Chavez, Washington Examiner:

The night he locked up the Democratic presidential nomination, Barack Obama predicted that generations hence, people would look back on the historic day as “the moment when the rise of

Obama’s vision problem, Victor Davis Hanson, RCP:

Not being George W. Bush while apologizing for America’s purported sins is not a foreign policy

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But what exactly does Barack Obama wish to accomplish abroad?

In interviews and speeches,

The state of the Obami, By Victor Davis Hansen, Pajamas Media:

Let me review the progress of the last two years, because the national mood reminds me of the free speech area at any California university where groups

The Obami speak, by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu, Arutz Sheva:

The Netanyahu government’s attitude to the United States shows it is “waiting for President [Sarah] Palin, an Obama official reportedly told Peter Beinart, writing for the Atlantic Monthly news

• WHY EXPEL ONE OF YOUR OWN? I notice Jennifer Rubin of Commentary asking the question why shouldn’t Helen Thomas be expelled from the White House press corps?  (David already has vid up on this topic)T  The answer to my

Helen Thomas fired retires, from Politico:

“Helen Thomas announced Monday that she is retiring, effective immediately,” read a statement from Hearst Newspapers on Monday. “Her decision came after her controversial comments about Israel and the Palestinians were captured on

I am afraid that crow is about to become an endangered species.

What do you call four crows in a pie?  Dinner for Michael Bloomberg, Charles “Chuckles” Schumer, Janet Napolitano and Contessa Brewer.

from Mike Riggs, Daily Caller:

New

Bring I Won on, Dim Won goes to California to boost Barbara Boxer, Sean J. Miller, Hill:

President Barack Obama returns to Southern California on Monday for his first fundraising swing in nearly a year to lend support

Why the one hasn’t won yet, Jay Cost, RCP:

Last week, President Obama said again and again that the time for talk is over. Yet this week he’s going on the road to defend his new bill. This

Stop playing games, MSM. John Patrick Bedell was a registered Democrat, Michelle

More Massa, When Eric Massa (NY-29) announced he would not seek re-election on Wednesday, cited health problems.  There were also reports of ethics investigation.  Yesterday, I asked a

As this is wriiten, I’m on my way back to Casa de Bit. Let’s just say the situation up north didn’t work to our mutual satisfaction.

I may or may not blog much today, since I was up all night

From radio buddy Scott Fybush,  on Northeast Radio Watch, on Monday:

*The final collapse of New York-based Air America Radio made big industry headlines at week’s end, but the bankruptcy liquidation of the pioneering progressive talk network won’t

Welcome dear reader to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the sphere… The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble

• SPENDING FREEZE: So Obama’s response to the anger he’s generated, is that he claims he wants a spending freeze on “many” domestic

As discussed and promised on The Conservative Reader Report on December 22, here is the full Senate Minority Leader’s speech (Mitch McConnell of Kentucky) just prior to the Monday’s Cloture vote.  If you don’t have 13 minutes, you can