Breakfast Scramble

Ironic story of the day, Allah Pundit, Hot Air:

Helicopters carrying three senior U.S. senators made emergency landings Thursday in the mountains of Afghanistan because of a snowstorm.

Sens. John Kerry, Joseph Biden and Chuck Hagel were aboard

Word must have gone out that Harry Reid is in trouble in Washington and in his home state. The ground started moving out there yesterday. A fairly substantial 6.3 Richter. Some problems, but no deaths or major injuries to report.

“Xerox” isn’t a noun.

Addendum: (David L)

How can do many media sources get a one line quote so wrong?  Lots of practice I quess, via CNN:

And, you know, lifting whole passages from someone else’s speeches is not

Boortz makes an interesting historical point yesterday:

You might find it interesting to know what our founding fathers thought of the idea of a democracy. There’s an incredible book out there titled “Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation. Here’s your link

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen to thinly veiled a hit piece, as what the New York Times has unleased on John McCain. Since, in fact, the TANG forged documents.  No shock for this; I predicted that there

Good new from, Michelle Malkin:

The Duke lacrosse players are seeking justice. They deserve it:

Duke University will be sued by 38 members of the 2006 men’s lacrosse team who claim they suffered emotional distress when school officials failed

• Billy
  

  “I’ve always believed that he’s the easier candidate to beat in the Fall.”

  (McPhillips: “Are The Clintons Over?”)

  I think his general position is correct: these people won’t be “over” until we see their boxes getting dropped into the

Bullseye:

HONOLULU (AP) – A U.S. Navy cruiser blasted a disabled spy satellite with a pinpoint missile strike that achieved the main mission of exploding a tank of toxic fuel 130 miles above the Pacific Ocean, defense officials

Alter is saying Obama is going to win because Hillary Clinton ran the worst campaign in history. Which of course, ignores that what was being sold was simply unsellable. I suspect she ran the best campaign she could.  People know

Mrs. Clinton’s last stand, via Byron York, National Review:

On a conference call, top strategist Mark Penn just told reporters that in the next two weeks Hillary Clinton will go after Barack Obama on the issue of who is

• Honorable Mention in the OTB Caption Contest.
• No, folks… Now is not the time for The Cuban embargo to be removed. Not until Fidel Casto‘s POLICIES are. This is not about one man, however infamous. This is about the

Noted at the Babalu Blog this morning:

Michael Graham, blogging at The Natural Truth, brings us this disgusting but not surprising story about how CNN coached its anchors to treat the subject of fidel castro in an early morning email

Mark Steyn puts up a bit in McCleans, this norning, under tyhe header: “So what would it take to alarm you?”

Since Maclean’s got into a spot of bother with Canada’s “human rights” pseudo-courts, I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the

Surber, this morning reports that FIdel Castro is among other things, in possession of about $900 million.  Lessee… $900  Huge. Do you suppose that this qualifies as Communism, under the definitions that Marx originally laid down? So, not oly have

Anyone want proof there’s a God?

Looks like one more scrap of proof just showed up to play: Roger Simon says he’s losing in his bid for his congressional seat to an unknown.