Breakfast Scramble (Wednesday)

Why the War on Barbour? From Alex Pareene, Slate:

Corpulent unreconstructed good ol’ boy Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour apparently has a “state plane” that he uses to fly to football games with corporate executives, Politco reports today. Barbour, a

Why do we call it the Lame Stream Media? From the totally irony challenged Chicago Tribune:

[Bill] Ayers co-founded the Weather Underground, an anti-war group held responsible for a series of bombings during the Vietnam War era, including

‘Rats do death panels, via Clarice Feldman, American Thinker:

As Democrats brace for a November wave that threatens their control of the House, party leaders are preparing a brutal triage of their own members in hopes of saving

On Labor Day the it seems reasonable to do some research on recent history and on current plans within the unions.

So does Michelle Malkin, who  says today::

My syndicated column today takes on the rise of President Obama’s best

I’ve been spending a good deal of time the last several weeks thinking about many things as I go about the business of driving my truck, and piloting the nation’s freight to where it needs to go. It’s a kind

Sixty five years ago today,  one United States warplane dropped one bomb on one  Japaneses city, Hiroshima and killed what a hundred thousand Japanese civilians; men, women, children. from Bruce McQuain, Q and O:

[I]t is the annual Hiroshima

Noted today an article in the McClatchy News wire… a service that I seldom scan anymore. Today, they offer up something fairly useful.

The first paras:

BAGHDAD — Shiite Iraqi militants have trained in Iran in preparation for attacks against

From Jake Tapper, ABC News:

Speaking about the Uganda bombings, the president said, “What you’ve seen in some of the statements that have been made by these terrorist organizations is that they do not regard African life as valuable

For whom the bill tolls, Megan McArdle,  Atlantic:

The Health Care Reform Already Costs More Than We Thought It Would

There’s been a spate of bad news recently about the health care bill.

Henry Waxman canceled his War

Liberal is synonym for stupid.   Dim witted Senators want to wreck economy to solve imaginary problem:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A new Senate bill aimed at battling global warming would impose new limits on carbon dioxide pollution from

Welcome one and all to the most intense nightly read on the web….  The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble.

• ALL POLITICS IS PRELUDE TO CIVIL WAR: An interesting Scott Ott interview with Billy Beck ostensibly about this.
• IMMIGRATION CONTINUED: In response to

Remember this, equals is a mathematical concept.    The idea of equality has no relationship biological or social groups.    I hold that no two groups have ever been equal, Thomas Sowell, in Investor Business Daily:

One of the most ominous

United Airlines – 1: Terrorist – 0, United Airlines shows the intestinal fortitude so lacking among the Obami, from Associated Press:

DENVER—A Qatari diplomat who created a bomb scare mid-flight earlier this week tried boarding the same airline

Jennifer Rubin on the Dim Won’s fading power of oratory, Commentary:

[Barack Obama’s] rhetoric (which to the amazement of many conservatives – who noticed he was largely talking New Age gibberish during the campaign – transfixed a great number