The Crane

Yeah, Billy, you’re correct in that this is nothing new. Such is normalcy, I suppose for working on such projects. Construction, as you know from first hand experience can be, and is, dangerous.

But you know… there’s something else, here

James Joyner:

Thomas Ricks reports that Matt Matthews, a historian at the Army’s Combat Studies Institute, has written a new report concluding that “five years of fighting insurgents in Iraq may also have dulled U.S. soldiers’ skills at more conventional

Barrack Obama is increasingly exposing himself as someone who has serious problems with the truth:

The Chicago Sun-Times today:In an extensive 80-minute interview with the Sun-Times,White House hopeful Barack Obama laid out just how close he and indicted Chicago businessman

Barrack Obama, and a lot of the leftards like to lay the claim that

“There was no such thing as al-Qaida in Iraq until George Bush and John McCain decided to invade Iraq. … They took their eye off the

CR passes along a response to a post of mine yesterday:

I’ve said it a number of times here in the past: the real power is in the US Congress.  Presidents can negotiate with foreign leaders, take military action (to

I still like my question – when does the reconciliation begin? Barack’s wife is angry, his minister is foaming, yet we are supposed to elect Barack as Mr. Sunshine and Unity. Why aren’t the people closest to him sunny and

The Reverend Fred Phelps is a bigot and by the media’s definition homophobic.   Suppose a presidential candidate, say the late Pat Paulson, was member in good standings of Phelps’ Westboro Baptist Church,    Our ever vigilant media, after twenty

McGehee:

 I’ve mentioned here a time or two some names whose inclusion on a Republican presidential ticket might attract yours truly to consider voting for it, despite John “Never Met a Media Representative Whose [censored] I Didn’t Want to Kiss”

•  The racist card and the sexist card. Is Geraldine Ferraro a racist? Eh, likely not. But it is of note that the charge is coming fast and furious against her from Obama’s supporters, isn’t it?I mean, look…You knew the race

Passed along by a reader. I’m sure this one’s been making the rounds. I’m equally sure the leftsts will claim it’s been ‘debunked’, but it hasn’t. This stuff is going to come up, no matter who the Democrats nominate. Forewarned

Impossible Dream, Independent(UK)

Well she is a blond,  Ireland On-Line:

Patricia Arquette questioned how open-minded she was when her transgender brother Alexis first announced he was going to become a womanP

Patrica, he is still your

Conservative Reader makes several good points last night, along the lines of:

He said, it seems as time goes on, we are becoming more and more intolerant of bad behavior. Not that it should be okay to engage in illicit

“I go forward with the belief as others have said that as human beings our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.”  

That’s former NY Govenor Eliot Spitzer, who apparently does not understand

(Queue Beatles, Revolution Number 9)

OK, for all that we’ve been busy chatting about how Spitzer came over at the Mayflower, there was , in fact, other stuff in my head, and on the wires, besides Spitzer, today. Here’s

Preface:  One, it is neither my intent to blog about Silda Spitzer, nor to pass judgment.   She only  serves as the vehicle of this discussion.   Two, I find it aggravating when discussing issues pertaining to women that some can not,