The Ramble for 9/20/11

Brooklyn, NY– I’m being unloaded… a load I picked up last night at Mountain Top, PA. From here, I run to Monroe Township, NK and to Windsor Locks, CT. Raining around here. A decidedly fall tilt in the air. Along

The day the freedom died in Indiana, from NWI Times:

INDIANAPOLIS | Overturning a common law dating back to the English Magna Carta of 1215, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Hoosiers have no right to resist

How dumb is Dumbo I:

Washington (CNN) – President Barack Obama used an immigration speech Tuesday to take a jab at News Corporation CEO, Rupert Murdoch, who owns Fox News Channel.

Obama quoted the CEO, an Australian native,

Carlisle, PA– I’m at the truck stop in Carlisle as I write this.

Getting comfortable in the new truck I’ve been assigned is an effort that has taken weeks… as I suspected it would. There’s still work to be done

• I think it safe to say that with policy disasters both on the foreign and the domestic fronts, and no real advances for American interests at home or abroad, that Jimmy Carter is no longer the worst President in American

The Very Model of the Modern Liberal War, from Bruce McQuain, Questions and Observations:

[T]here is no – none, zip, nada – connection, not even a tenuous one, to American national security and the war on Libya.

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Welcome to December, from 13WHAM:

Rochester, N.Y.— The first day of the December brought some more holiday-like weather as the Rochester area saw the first major snow accumulation of the winter season. Early Wednesday morning rain caused several

The Obama method, by Victor Davis Hanson, Pajamas Media:

[Barack] Obama, who was always himself given something (take your pick—Harvard admission, Harvard Law Review billet, Chicago Law School tenure offer, Noble Peace Prize, etc.) without requisite achievement, is

L & O DOA, Deadline:

This one is a shocker. Veteran crime drama Law & Order will not get its shot at history after all. I hear that after long deliberations, NBC has decided to cancel the long-running

Confessed child rapist, confesses to being fugitive from justice, by Roman Polanski, (NFL)

It is true: 33 years ago I pleaded guilty, and I served time at the prison for common law crimes at Chino, not in a VIP prison. 

Do they really all look alike? The Washington Post’s Macaca moment.

Aliens who are  not welcome, from Fausta:

If outsiders do not enhance the country’s “economic or national interests” or are “not found to be physically or mentally

Chicago Way is a two way street, from John Kass, Chicago Tribune:

It’s no secret that some in journalism get offended when anyone dares mention that the president was involved in Chicago politics. But the filing is not

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

Are the Obami behind the anti Tea Party Astroturf? From Erick Erickson, Redstate

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Glenn Greenwald at Salon noted Barack Obama’s new head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Cass Sunstein, had championed creating fake websites

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert M.  Gates has warned in a secret three-page memorandum to top White House officials that the United States does not have an effective long-range policy for dealing with Iran‘s steady progress toward nuclear capability,