Nightly Ramble Wednesday

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• THERE IS A COST To be paid for the disorganized and totally ineffectual way the White House has been dealing with Iran.
• IF

For whom the bill tolls, Megan McArdle,  Atlantic:

The Health Care Reform Already Costs More Than We Thought It Would

There’s been a spate of bad news recently about the health care bill.

Henry Waxman canceled his War

Rush is right, the Obami proves it, from New York Post:

When President Obama was asked if he would play a round of golf with his talk-radio nemesis Rush Limbaugh, the response, relayed by a top Democrat, was:

Lawrence Taylor charged with statutory rape, from Jammie Wearing Fool, and Ace

Football Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor was arrested in a Rockland hotel overnight and charged with raping a 15-year-old girl, police said.

The 51-year-old former linebacker

Hmnn, Naureen S. Malik, Wall Street Journal:

A small oil refinery just southeast of downtown San Antonio is on fire following an explosion, leading to a one-mile evacuation, a local fire department spokeswoman said.

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An 18-wheeler that was

Does this sound like a civilian criminal? From the New York Slimes:

A Connecticut man who was arrested as his plane was about to take off from Kennedy Airport admitted on Tuesday that he had tried to explode a

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:

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Welcome one and all to the most intense nightly read on the web…. The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble.

• IT’S THE BOMB, BRO: The big news of last evening, of course, was the incendiary device on four wheels parked in the middle

Matthew Yglesias gets it:

I’ve been feeling like I should say something about the failed terrorist attack this weekend in New York but can’t come up with much beyond the observation that I don’t quite get why this is

Earth to WaPo, come in please. Tim Talley, Associated Press. “Clinic: New Okla. abortion law hard on patients.”    While Oklahoma abortion law may, or may not, be hard on patients, actually mothers, it is even harder on

WTF – Over, on what planet does the Reverend Al Sharpton reside? From the New York Daily News:

New York activists, including the Rev. Al Sharpton, compared Arizona‘s new immigration law to apartheid, Nazi Germany and the

Hello and welcome to yet another edition of the most intense nightly read anywhere on the World Wide Web; the BitsBlog Nightly Ramble.

• THE CLIMATEGATE WHITEWASH CONTINUES: Myron Ebell explains. Today’s must read.
• FOX CAVES? It certainly appears so.  Any

B.J. Clinton in the New York Stimes:

Criticism is part of the lifeblood of democracy. No one is right all the time. But we should remember that there is a big difference between criticizing a policy or a politician

Whites House denies Elena Kagan is a Frank and denies that there anything wrong with that, Howard Kurtz, Washington Post:

The White House ripped CBS News on Thursday for publishing an online column by a blogger who made

Obami, fly shat, pepper, boxing gloves, Robert Spencer, Front Line Magazine:

Barack Obama has removed all mention of Islam from the National Security Strategy document, which during the Bush Administration said: “The struggle against militant Islamic radicalism is