I’ve been Saying It for Years; Follow the Money. 

I have been saying for years that the fight over health care and who runs it was a financial battle.  No, not a financial battle for the “little guy”.  Just a couple of big ones. Michelle Malkin reports on one

I’m just curious;

Can it be that the reason that the legality of the “candidacy” of Stephen Colbert for the presidency of these United States is being challenged is because of the embarrassment involved with the concept of him actually

Captain Ed says:

Those darn Puritans in New York just can’t let anyone have fun, even middle-school students. Can you imagine that people might have considered having strippers as volunteers at a Halloween celebration for Middle School 51 inappropriate? Why,

Interesting stuff the Cheerful Iconoclast:

Glen Reynolds links to this Christian Science Monitor article by Craig Franklin about the Jena 6 case. Franklin is a local journalist who has covered the case for the local paper, and his article is

Ok we have beat back the ‘rat’s latest attempt at amnesy.  Yet this is one battle, a Gettysburg, and not a surrender, Appomattox.

Fred Thompson shows that Dick Durbin’s DREAM act was really a nightmare:

After several false starts

The L.A. Times this morning is reporting we’re dealing with cases of arson :

Amid worries of new blazes adding to the firestorm already afflicting the region, a man in Hesperia has been arrested on suspicion of arson, and police

I think it amazing that this Scott Beauchamp story has been met with such stony silence from the mainstream media.  It has only been twelve hours now or so since the story came out that documents and transcripts of phone

Jonah Goldberg:

Via H&R, we learn that The Guardian is going to offer an American version of its online operation edited by Michael Tomasky.

He’s going to attempt to bring a Brit POV about America, to America.

I dunno. I

Allah says, under a headline reading:

Wildfire victims getting what’s coming to them, says Carlin

No need for grandiose outrage here. He’s been saying stuff like this for decades. In fact it’s a core part of his act, which is

I’m hearing the Disney folks are now into Martial Arts movies. They’ve managed to dig up some distant cousin of Bruce Lee to star in their first effort… “Honey, I Shrunk the Dragon”.

Joyner points up an AP story which labels Philadelphia Washington and Dallas as the places where the least attractive people in the United States congregate.

I wasn’t even aware there was a contest.  And attractiveness, is such a subjective

Sounds rather like a forthcoming football game, doesn’t it? Interestingly, this little subtext drama gets played out in the sports venue of each city.

(Sigh) I haven’t even attempted to cover the fires in SouCal. I’m simply not equipped for

If you’re the president, do you visit southern California under these circumstances?  Mark Finkelstein over at Newsbusters points out that President Bush’s going, at least as far as we know right now, but points out that no matter what happens,

Megan McArdle:

Ezra and Brian are complaining that it’s hard to get anything done these days:

I think it’s almost certainly wrong that we’re not overwhelmed by the volume of tragedy in the world — there’d have to be something

You’d like to think that one place our nations laws would be respected would be in the Halls of Congress.    Not if you are a democrat, who planned to flout our nation’s immigrantion laws by using illegal aliens as props.