A crazy day, yesterday. For yours truly, lots of irons in the fire, some web development, my day gig some home duities, but of course, as with all of us, yesterday, before I even started the day came the news
Ann Althouse obviously has a much greater willingness to parse Mrs. Clinton in detail than I do. Professor Althouse catches this snippet of Clintonspeak:
Writes David Linkin (linked by Stephen Kaus). He’s talking about Hillary Clinton in a
Continue reading about Ann Althouse on Mrs. Clinton’s Doublespeak
Attention Bitsblog readers in and around Northeast PA… (Which is actually a town in in north WEST PA)
Anything going on for New Year’s Eve Fireworks around Erie PA this year? I’m not finding anything on the web.
Leave some
Mrs. Pelosi, the inspiration for Swamp Stompers, promised to “Drain the Swamp.” Yet all Mrs. Pelosi has managed has to further infest the swamp.
Via, Memeorandum.David Broder, Washington Post, compares Pelosi’s over inflated claims of achievement versus her
Keith B. Richburg, Washington Post, fights to keep his Rolodex relevant, and explores the issue of the Reverend Al Sharpton’s relevance:
Sharpton has “been eclipsed, because Obama puts guys like Sharpton in the shadow,” said Fred Siegel, a historian
Continue reading about The Reverend Al Who? (Updated And Bumped)

[Ron] Paul blames Lincoln for the Civil War rather than blaming the South for starting a war to preserve slavery. Does he love liberty? Or does he merely loathe the federal government?
James Taranto: Opinion Journal.
Addendum: (Bit)
Heh…
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan —Fox News- Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday in a homicide attack that also killed at least 20 others at a campaign rally.Bhutto was shot in the neck and chest as she was entering her vehicle,
While Gallup’s most recent poll… and the “reporting” thereof… centered on the idea that Hillary Clinton has passed Oprah Winfrey as the most admired woman…. (Nobody asked me…) Ron Coleman over at Right Wing News reports there’s a little
Nice to hear from the Conservative Reader (The Iowa Swamp Stomper). Apparently 1040/WHO is going to be running an Immigration Reform talk show, today. C. R. has the links.
Via Memeorandum, I find this.. which I take as evidence that the left is still engaged in anti-Jewish knee-jerking. No wonder they like Ron Paul.
And yes, Miss Mannered, I mean you.
And no, this wasn’t your fisrt time
Continue reading about Let All Doubt be Removed on What These People are About
Steve LeBlanc reports on the end of fifteen billion dollar hole in the gronnd.
BOSTON (AP) – When the clock runs out on 2007, Boston will quietly mark the end of one of the most tumultuous eras in
Continue reading about Ted Kennedy’s Gift to the American Taxpayer
Michael S. Barr in The New York Times, today:
WHILE the causes of the mortgage crisis are myriad, a central problem was that many borrowers took out loans that they did not understand and could not afford.
Yep. But what
Continue reading about Helping the Poor Toward Home Ownership?
Economically speaking, this Christmas season wasn’t bad.
Glenn notes today:
CHRISTMAS RETAIL SALES UP, BUT BY A MODEST 3.6% — but online sales were up 22.4%. The New York Times calls those numbers “bleak,” a term that’s more accurately used
Michelle, today:
Environmental busybodies never take a vacation. The lead letter on Christmas day at the San Francisco Chronicle echoed dim bulb Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels’ recent “Stop global warming and buy CFLs or Santa will DIEDIEDIE!”
Flim flam artists are always trying to seperate a fool from his money.
Case one, I ran with with this story on 28 October, but it bears repeating:
When Nomatter Tagarira, a spirit medium, claimed that she could conjure


