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First off, you’ll pardon me if I don’t shed any tears over Tom Daschle. Hopefully, he’ll be staying gone for good this time, though I doubt that’ll happen.  He’s too deep in the councils of the Democrats to stay gone

I have another piece up over at Pajamas Media, this morning. Here’s a taste:

You see, while the numbers suggest that there has been no president since Richard Nixon or — depending on how you judge these things — Harry

Welcome, dear reader, to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the ‘sphere.. Bit’sBlog’s Nightly Ramble

Hope your weekend was a good one. We’ve got lots of ground to cover, so let’s get to this.

• Barack Hussein Obama and George

Welcome, dear reader, to the most intense nightly read in the ‘sphere… The Nightly Ramble….

Tuesday. 28 days until the election.4 days until my vacation, and about 5 hours to the second debate. And if you don’t understand the joke

Bit wasn’t the only one wrestling with problems this morning.

Ended up watching Zulu last night.  Good movie.  I’d seen the movie before.  So I wasn’t going to watch the whole movie   Needless to say, I got caught up in

• At some point, the rain around here has to stop. Not that we’ve had flooding of any serious amounts, but it’s rained around here about every day this summer, for at least part of the day. Today is another example.

Not sure what to make of thisreport from Fox News:

An aide to Sen. Jim Webb was found dead from a gunshot wound Tuesday morning, the Virginia Democrat’s office confirmed to FOX News on Wednesday.

Frederick Wayne Hutchins Jr., 26,

WASHINGTON — Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens allegedly made false statements to cover up gifts given to him by an oil contractor seeking his help on Capitol Hill, according to a seven-count federal indictment unveiled Tuesday.

Stevens, 84, is the longest-serving

The Strib:

Al Franken’s career as an entertainer made him famous and rich and positioned him to run for the U.S. Senate.

But now, just as he appears on the verge of securing the DFL endorsement to take on Republican

• Look, Billy, I’m somewhat sympathetic to the argument, but let’s not lose sight of the fact that they went to this place with the specific goal in mind of pissing off the constabulary. To what end? Don’t tell me

Uh-oh. CNN has a small problem, this morning. The NZ Herald… not CNN, of course… is reporting:

One of CNN’s star journalists is allegedly embroiled in a bizarre tale of ‘drugs ‘n’ debauchery’.

Richard Quest, a CNN anchor and

BAGHDAD —FOX- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice mocked anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as a coward on Sunday, hours after the radical leader threatened to declare war unless U.S. and Iraqi forces end a military crackdown on his followers.

Rice, in

After the debate last night, I noted a whole lot of traffic… all asking questions about Obama and Ayers, apparently following up on Hillary Clinton’s questions during the debate itself. (Yes, I know it was Stephy who asked the questions,

Bruce McQuain, last night on the BlogTalkRadio show he and Dale Franks do, made reference to a 2004 appearance on the ostensibly friendly confines of Charlie Rose’s show. Bruce makes the point that Obama here is expressing pretty much the