Peace versus Freedom, have noticed comments that while 43 tended to talk about Freedom, the one tends to talk about Peace. The two are not synonymous. If BO is as smart as the leftards would like us to believe
Ricardo Montalban, the suave leading man who was one of the first Mexican-born actors to make it big in Hollywood and who was best known for his roles as Mr. Roarke on ABC’s “Fantasy Island” and the villainous Khan of
Dennis Yost, 65, the lead singer of the 1960s soft rock group the Classics IV, died Sunday at Fort Hamilton Hospital in Hamilton, Ohio, of respiratory failure, according to a hospital spokeswoman.
he Classic IV had a
Word from the Boston Pheonix, this morning:
This morning, Massachusetts State Senator Dianne Wilkerson was arrested on charges of attempted extortion and wire fraud after an 18-month investigation by the FBI. The FBI alleges that Wilkerson took bribes from
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Levi Stubbs, Jr, died over a week ago, on the 17th of this month.
Now I feel bad for not having mentioned it. My fault.
Of course I’d written something, which is altogether dated, now, but it never made
Welcome dear reader, to the most intense nightly read on the ‘sphere… BitsBlog’s Nightly Ramble.
- I mentioned last night about polling data… and they’ve been having a bit of a row over it on many of the blogs I’ve
Welcome dear reader, to the most intense nightly read on the ‘sphere… BitsBlog’s Nightly Ramble.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah… I know, Colin Powell. All the rage over the weekend. I don’t think there’s much argument against the idea that there’s a
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David’s quote of Ed Morressy seems to me quite on the money. Consider the operative phrase of Ed’s very first line: “Stench of Desperation”.
And what is driving this desperation, you may ask? Wasn’t Obama ahead? What explains this?
Well,
Don LaFontaine, whose name you likey don’t know, but whose voice you can’t help but recognize, has died, says Wired:
Don LaFontaine, the man whose resonant voice read the trailers of thousands of movies over the past three decades, died
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Bernie Mac has died in Chicago, at age 50. The Chicago Tribune reports:
Comedian and Chicago native Bernie Mac died early Saturday morning from complications due to pneumonia, his publicist confirmed.
Mac, 50, had been hospitalized for about a week
I note this morning an article in the American Thinker by Thomas Lifson, that points to a subject I’ve been thinking about rather a lot of late… All around Slimeball John Murtha:
Rep. John Murtha’s disgrace in denouncing the Marines
These Nightly Rambles are all things I’ve found during the day. I input them all day long and auto-post whatever I’ve collected at around 4 to 430 eastern. I put things in here that catch my eye but that perhaps
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Word from the Winston-Salem Journal, this morning, that Announcer Skip Caray has died.
Caray, who would have celebrated his 69th birthday on Aug. 12, went to take a nap yesterday afternoon and didn’t wake up. He is survived by
Erica Wagner at the London Times notes the passage of one of the great voices of freedom: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:
Years of internal exile and suffering never daunted him. The 1962 publication of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich