I’ve been Saying It for Years; Follow the Money. 

I have been saying for years that the fight over health care and who runs it was a financial battle.  No, not a financial battle for the “little guy”.  Just a couple of big ones. Michelle Malkin reports on one

Captain Ed says:

Those darn Puritans in New York just can’t let anyone have fun, even middle-school students. Can you imagine that people might have considered having strippers as volunteers at a Halloween celebration for Middle School 51 inappropriate? Why,

Interesting stuff the Cheerful Iconoclast:

Glen Reynolds links to this Christian Science Monitor article by Craig Franklin about the Jena 6 case. Franklin is a local journalist who has covered the case for the local paper, and his article is

Ok we have beat back the ‘rat’s latest attempt at amnesy.  Yet this is one battle, a Gettysburg, and not a surrender, Appomattox.

Fred Thompson shows that Dick Durbin’s DREAM act was really a nightmare:

After several false starts

The L.A. Times this morning is reporting we’re dealing with cases of arson :

Amid worries of new blazes adding to the firestorm already afflicting the region, a man in Hesperia has been arrested on suspicion of arson, and police

I think it amazing that this Scott Beauchamp story has been met with such stony silence from the mainstream media.  It has only been twelve hours now or so since the story came out that documents and transcripts of phone

Sounds rather like a forthcoming football game, doesn’t it? Interestingly, this little subtext drama gets played out in the sports venue of each city.

(Sigh) I haven’t even attempted to cover the fires in SouCal. I’m simply not equipped for

Megan McArdle:

Ezra and Brian are complaining that it’s hard to get anything done these days:

I think it’s almost certainly wrong that we’re not overwhelmed by the volume of tragedy in the world — there’d have to be something

You’d like to think that one place our nations laws would be respected would be in the Halls of Congress.    Not if you are a democrat, who planned to flout our nation’s immigrantion laws by using illegal aliens as props.  

I’ve put up with about as much from Ron Paul supporters as I’m going to.  I’ve created a special spam bucket, with a special filter just for you clowns.  3/4 of which I don’t even see and none of it

James Joyner: (Link repaired)

Reason‘s Dave Weigel takes to the pages of The American Conservative to warn Republicans that they’re not going to win in 2008 simply by bashing Hillary Clinton.

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While negative campaigning and pointing out the

Usually, I just ignore this kind of garbage.  But this one, no… I can’t do it.

TPM says

In Shirley MacLaine’s new book, the actress and longtime friend of Dennis Kucinich makes an interesting claim: During a visit to her

I’d think if it were but possible to rewrite one’s will after your death, the the Nobel committee would need to find another line of work.  After proving that their peace prize was a sham by awarding to jokers like

From the radio world, comes news that 1600/KOKE has dropped Err America.

Ratings apparently were the biggest factor… in the last book, they couldn’t even pull 1% in a town known for being liberal, despite having 5000 watts daytimes/(700 night)

Let me make some points perfectly clear.

I am tired of Bit having all the fun.

It should be Chuckie and not Chuckles.  The latter is the senior senator from New York.  The former a clown.

I have utterly no