Nightly Ramble:Make a Wish, Another Caption, Another War, Another Lie, More

• I can’t let this touching post of McQ’s slide off into oblivion in Google somewhere, without commenting on it. The guys involved with this project would modestly tell you it’s all part of being a soldier. They’d be right in

Remember where you read this, next time Ace is trolling for votes.

I predict.  One the ‘rats will nominate Barack Obama.   Two, Obama will be Swit Boated, and lose badly.   Remember that Swit Boating is where someone dares to speak

By way of Memeorandum, I note Sean Wilentz already casting about looking for somewhere beside Hillary Clinton, her past, her policies, her politics and her personality, to place the blame for her loss of the nomination:

Unlike the Republicans, the

The wires are humming just now with the news that Mark Penn, Head cook and bottle washer for the Clinton campaign, has quit. One such story comes form the Washington Post:

ALBUQUERQUE, April 6 — Mark J. Penn quit Sunday

Word this morning from the London Times that Iran had forces on the ground at Basra:

IRANIAN forces were involved in the recent battle for Basra, General David Petraeus, the US commander in Iraq, is expected to tell Congress this

Ann Althouse notes liberal discomfort with the John McCain biography tour:

Bill Scher perceives irony in McCain’s ad — which depicts his life story, including his service in Vietnam — because it is “very much about ‘I.'” Scher thinks the

MISSOULA, Mont. — On the air, Ed Schultz, a liberal talk show host based in Fargo, N.D., is well-known for his blunt criticisms of the Bush Administration and the Republican Party. But Mr. Schultz, a fervent supporter of Senator Barack

By way of James Joyner, I note Teagan Goddard, the morning:

Taegan Goddard argues that Hillary Clinton’s release of seven years of tax returns just after four yesterday was smooth.

Tactically, it’s a perfect time to release them?—?especially if there’s

Preface,  I neither deify nor demonize Martin Luther King, Jr.    King was certainly a very important figure in our nation’s history, but no where near important as liberal myth demands    King was not the single most important person in

James Joyner:
 

The bitterness of the Democratic presidential race kicked up another notch yesterday, with the discovery that popular Air America radio host Randi Rhodes recently performed a profanity-laced standup routine in which both Geraldine Ferraro and Hillary Clinton were

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said on Thursday he would not accept the nomination for U.S. vice president as he did four years ago.
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“No,” said Edwards, who also declined to say whether he

• McQ notes this report which finally catches on to the obvious…
  

  Rap music has increasingly glamorized the use of illegal drugs, portraying marijuana, crack and cocaine as symbols of wealth and status, according to a new study by the journal

Since CBL (740AM in Toronto) went dark, and CBC radio one went to FM at CBLA/99.1FM*** and about a zillion low power FM repeaters, I can no longer get CBC1, so I didn’t hear this one.

Many Americans are

On both sides of the pond, concerned parents complain about books targeting school children which promote willful homosexual behavior, as if it were  normal.   The parents complain and  the school boards ignore. 

Now good news, Mike Pechar, Jawa Report,

Billy notes the story of Hillary Clinton and the Nixon impeachment. This one’s been brewing for quite a while, as Billy notes correctly… and Ed Morrissey confirms in the process of quoting Dan Calabrese:

As Hillary Clinton came under increasing