An interesting John Hawkins interview with Victor Davis Hanson:
Victor Davis Hanson: I think that’s just part of what it means to be a privileged Westerner. It means that you’re going to be wracked by self doubt and you’re going
I’ve been watching the nonsense over GOP Chair Steele’s comments on Afghanistan, with a somewhat jaundiced eye.
Look, the DNC may like to claim that Steele is “betting against our troops and rooting for failure in Afghanistan”, but what’s
Welcome to one and all to this most intense nightly read anywhere on the ‘sphere… The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble
Attention countrymen.
This is your fearless leader speaking.
A couple things in the mechanics of running a web site …
1: I have upgraded the WordPress software to version 3.0. To most users this won’t change a thing.
2:I finally
t was nearly the end of the day, today , when I finally realized that I had not written anything in terms of a comment on the day.
Usually I tend to take the attitude that if I don’t have
- WHY EXPEL ONE OF YOUR OWN? I notice Jennifer Rubin of Commentary asking the question why shouldn’t Helen Thomas be expelled from the White House press corps? (David already has vid up on this topic)T The answer to my
For the first time in recent memory I can quote something coming off Dean Esmay’s site:
After an explosion, deaths, and months of oil spewing into the Golf, 12% more people want the health care reform law repealed than are
Single issue Ramble today. I want to speak briefly about Memorial day which is today.
It’s always been a special day for me, because honoring our vets has always held special meaning for me; it’s a lesson my parents instilled
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- IS AL GIVING UP ON GLOBAL WARMING? Roger Simon seems to think so.
- BYE BYE CHARLIE! I see Charlie Crist is finally decided
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- IT’S THE BOMB, BRO: The big news of last evening, of course, was the incendiary device on four wheels parked in the middle
Matthew Yglesias gets it:
I’ve been feeling like I should say something about the failed terrorist attack this weekend in New York but can’t come up with much beyond the observation that I don’t quite get why this is

Earth to WaPo, come in please. Tim Talley, Associated Press. “Clinic: New Okla. abortion law hard on patients.” While Oklahoma abortion law may, or may not, be hard on patients, actually mothers, it is even harder on
When Senator Levin says “Goldman made a lot of money by betting against the mortgage market” what do we think he might have meant? Knowing some of the political philosophy of the esteemed senator from Michigan, it is obvious that
Continue reading about Levin V. Goldman: Big Solution For a Big Problem?

Whites House denies Elena Kagan is a Frank and denies that there anything wrong with that, Howard Kurtz, Washington Post:
The White House ripped CBS News on Thursday for publishing an online column by a blogger who made
This is what many prominent left-kook environazis think about you…
“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?” -Maurice Strong, Head of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio



