Nightly Ramble: That’s a Riot, How Bad have You Gotta Be?, Why the Contest? More.

• Ya know, some folks simply don’t learn from history. “Riots in Denver, the Democrat Convention would see to it that we don’t elect Democrats,” Limbaugh said on yesterday’s’s show, saying also, that’s the best thing that could happen to the

Interesting word from basra by way of the London Times:

Young women are daring to wear jeans, soldiers listen to pop music on their mobile phones and bands are performing at wedding parties again.

All across Iraq’s second city

The Campaign Spot, earlier today, says:

Liberal radio talk show host Ed Schultz calls John McCain a warmonger at an Obama rally, and the Obama campaign issues a terse statement that he shouldn’t be called that term (and

Apparently, the Obama camp has decided that backtracking… actually wearing the flag pion, claiming fealty to America, and creating feel-good images of Jeramiah Wright, is the only way that they’re going to get out of the box they’ve been set

• This has been on my radar screen for a while. But that’s where it has stayed. I’ve been frozen by it and haven’t written a word on it. Apparently that is also where it has stayed, if it got that

Newsday:

In an interview yesterday, Hillary — whose connection to President Clinton’s 2001 sentence commutations for two members of the Weather Underground has become an issue since she tried to raise questions about Obama’s acquaintance with another ex-Weatherman — told

April 24 (Bloomberg) — Brazil’s discoveries of what may be two of the world’s three biggest oil finds in the past 30 years could help end the Western Hemisphere’s reliance on Middle East crude, Strategic Forecasting Inc. said.

Saudi Arabia’s

Neal Boortz, this morning:

The name Bill Ayers has become tied to the Barack Obama campaign.  But now it seems that Obama has yet another terrorist buddy .. that would be Obama fundraiser Hatem El-Hady.  This man was the

Michelle Malkin makes note of that North Carolina GOP ad that McCain supposedly doesn’t like.

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Says Michelle:

What is the big freaking’ deal?
…
McCain is demanding that the ad be withdrawn (via ABC News, hat tip- Allah):

“I

Mr. Obama’s call for postpartisanship looks unconvincing, when he is unable to point to a single important instance in his Senate career when he demonstrated bipartisanship.

Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal.

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I was just listening to a fairly uninspired discussion on NPR about race and the coverage of the Democratic primary (while driving to the airport). One interesting tidbit from the Washington Post’s Kevin Merida is that the Obama campaign has

• I was a little more than slightly tounge in cheek when I suggested last night that it would take a week for the primary returns to show up. We’ve seen it take just that long in other cases this cycle,

You gotta give Jimmy Carter credit.   While Carter lacks brains, he sure has balls.   Fresh off being shown to be a liar by Hamas, Carter has called Condoleezza Rice a liar, Steve Gilbert, Sweetness & Light:

We are

The assualt on freedom continues in Canada.   Ezra Levant reports that Mark Steyn has come to aid of his fellow victims of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, :

Mark has generously offered to support our legal defence through the sales

JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Paul Davis, a singer and songwriter whose soft rock hit “I Go Crazy” stayed on the charts for months after its release in 1977, died Tuesday. He was 60.Davis’ other popular hits included “65 Love Affair;”