Hume, last night:

The United Nations Human Rights Council was supposed to be better than the old Human Rights Commission, which became famous for bias and hypocrisy. Now the same charge is being leveled at the new body

The council

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davidl on March 26th, 2008

Richard Widmark as toomy Udo, Kiss of Death (1947)Richard Widmark has died at age 93.  A great actor but could never match his debut performance:

March 26 (Bloomberg) — Richard Widmark, the actor whose first movie role as a sneering psychopathic killer overshadowed his six-decade

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Lots of stuff going on over the weekend, not a bit of it earthshaking, or unexpected.

  • Like McQ at Q&O, I find myself watching closely thetrainwreck that is NORK.  You had to know this kind of thing was coming,

Continue reading about Nightly Ramble: Nork Starving Itself;Carville’s Brain has been Starved for Years, Your Mama Don’t Dance (Outside) The Misuse of Lincoln, And More

Eric Florack on March 24th, 2008

Yet another Democrat comes into criminal charges. 950/WWJ:

Criminal charges were filed today against Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his former Chief of Staff Christine Beatty in connection with the “text message scandal” that has enveloped the Mayor’s office.

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davidl on March 23rd, 2008

Back in the day, we used to blog a bit about Bill Richardson.  He was one of more favorite ‘rats.  In those heady days, his campaign used to link us a bit.  I don’t know if Richardson ever read the

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davidl on March 23rd, 2008

Robert Pear in the New York Times:

WASHINGTON – New government research has found “large and growing” disparities in life expectancy for richer and poorer Americans, paralleling the growth of income inequality in the last two decades.

So what!

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davidl on March 22nd, 2008

“People will know you by the company you keep,” 

Kyle-Anne Shiver’s grandmother, American Thinker

James Carville, as attributed by  Adam Nagourney and Jeff Zeleny, New York Times:

“Mr. Richardson’s endorsement came right around the anniversary of the day

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Rich Lowry notes something that’s been unsettling to me the last several days:

When an unimpeachably liberal former vice-presidential candidate of the Democratic party is likened to David Duke by a liberal media hero, the political apocalypse — or at

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  • Rumor control: McCain doesn’t have cancer. The Times, of course is making lots of noise about not being given McCain’s medical records, yet. The funny part of the story is, they’re still waiting for the health records of Bill Clinton,

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  • Billy notes a comment at Wonkette, complaining about smoke stacks:

    “We should start bombing North Carolina.”

    … and notes:

    That’s exactly what all the false equivocations of the thing add up to.

    Exactly so. And I think I can

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Eric Florack on February 29th, 2008

The more the US wins in IRaq, the less the news covers it. That’s long been the supposition, and now Rich Noyes at NewsBusters confirms it, saying in part…

…the President’s surge strategy is well on its way to succeeding.

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Eric Florack on February 27th, 2008

Jonah Goldberg, whose book I have really got to sit down and read, remarks yesterday:

‘Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.”

This excerpt from William Ayers’ memoir appeared in the New York Times on

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davidl on February 27th, 2008

Richard Cohen, Washington Post, offers to plan to save Mrs. Clinton’s campaign:

There is dissension in the Hillary Clinton camp. Top aides have been in arguments, shouting back and forth about differences in strategy. Should Clinton come on strong?

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Eric Florack on February 27th, 2008

The NY Observer, yesterday:

The argument that the constant carping about Hillary Clinton’s campaign has been a function of an Obama-friendly, process-obsessed media is well and good. But how, then, to explain the deeply held dissatisfaction of an old Clinton

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davidl on February 26th, 2008

DavidL's Breakfast ScrambleWeather Whooper, 13-WHAM-TV:

(Rochester, N.Y.) — A winter storm warning is in effect for Western New York beginning Tuesday morning and going into Wednesday.

13WHAM Meteorologists expect snow on and off for the two days. Snow will begin Tuesday

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