The Case of the Disappearing Comments

The San Francisco Chronicle has recently activated a devious system by which it deceives commenters on its website, SFGate.com. Here’s how it works:If you make a comment on an article posted at SFGate, and if the site moderators then subsequently

Little Green Footballs notes:

9/11 Troofers keep popping up at Daily Kos, despite the official Kos disapproval: Screw Loose Change: Daily Kos Allows Crackpot Diary.

The bottom line is, the regardless of the show the left makes of disapproving

I always said it would happen. Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters:

As irrefutable evidence mounts that Nobel Laureate Al Gore’s climate alarmism is about nothing other than lining his supposedly green pockets with green currency, manmade global warming skeptics around the

An amusing article, from Gene Lyons, which was reprinted in the Northwest Arkansas News this morning…

It’s no exaggeration to say that the establishment media’s initial response to the blogosphere was panic. The idea of mere citizens talking back to

The question is, repeatedly of late when Ron Paul was going to denounce the tinfoil crowd led by Master Troofer, Alex Jones.  The answer, apparently is “not very soon”.

Which is approximately the same time he’ll have my support.

An amazing admission from Paul Krugman:

As for what I wrote in 1996: the world looked very different then. On one side, Social Security projections were much more pessimistic than they are now, basically because the projections assumed that the

Lest anyone think the Oil for Food business has gone away, The NY SUN will disabuse you of that notion straight away:

A Switzerland-based oil trading company has pleaded guilty to paying $13 million in kickbacks to the Iraqi government

Dale Franks, this morning notes that while Ron Paul has come out with a statement about racism. And Dale, analytical type that he is, parses the statement out and finds it wanting:

Mr. Paul seems to be making the old

LA Times:

 Dick Wilson, a character actor who turned “Please don’t squeeze the Charmin” into a national catchphrase as exasperated shopkeeper Mr. Whipple in the TV commercial campaign that ran for more than two decades, has died. He was 91.

In the irony challenged story the day, Mrs. Clinton cites the need for experience to mend an ailing economy, but offers none.

KNOXVILLE, Iowa (AP) — The economy needs help and fast, Hillary Rodham Clinton declared Monday, claiming

Jonah Goldberg in today’s LA TIMES:

As the hopeless but energetic presidential campaign of Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) builds momentum in name recognition, fundraising and cross-ideology appeal, media conservatives are beginning to attack Paul in earnest

You’re usually more on

McQ over at Q&O:

Frankly I’m surprised it has taken him so long to realize the potential.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wants to turn OPEC into “an organization of monopoly and exploitation,” according to Saudi King

Boortz this morning:

The corrupt United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued a summary for action on climate change. This summary says that “warming of the climate system is unequivocal.” Quite odd, really, since the Earth has actually

McQ over at O&O made a trip to an oil platform, and relates his experiences here.

There’s a lot going on in that post, but I do want to point up something  that relates to a discussion we had the

Times are tough for the Republican Party and its candidates. Earlier this month, according to Gallup, more people strongly disapproved of George W. Bush than any previous president since the advent?of polling—and, really, how could things be any different? Bush