Dixie Carter, RIP Age 70

Dixie Cater, perhaps best know for her role in the TV Sitcom, “Designing Women” has died.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Actress Dixie Carter, who played an outspoken liberal on the sitcom “Designing Women” and received an Emmy nomination for a

Dumbo is as dumb about debate as he is about nukes:

(Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Thursday made clear he was not going to take advice from Republican Sarah Palin when it comes to decisions about the

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• 55% WANT HEALTHCARE REPEALED: I’ve already suggested earlier that an outright repeal of the healthcare monster isn’t likely and enumerated the reasons

Fess Parker has died.

He was more than a bit of an American Icon, who started a whole wave of coonskin caps and buckskin outfits with his mid-50’s TV portrayal of Davy Crockett, and later, Daniel Boone.

Parker’s been living

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• NO MODERATION HERE: Jennifer Rubin of Commentary opines:
  

  David Brooks says he’s out on the ledge, morose, and about to have

Just after the Superbowl, I posted one of the ads from that TV program, here… this one in fact:

Now, if you will recall, I called it prophetic.

So today, along comes Cold Fury, who links a Fox News

There may be many names for what Barack Obama is dong thiese days, from Paul Kane and Shailagh Murray, Washington Post:

A day after President Obama called on them to renew efforts to pass his ambitious agenda, congressional Democrats

From Ann Althouse:

Obama chose to call out the only 9 guys in the room that did their homework in law school. And the rest who ended up settling for politics stood and and cheer it.

Dennis Miller.

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With the special primary election for Florida Congressional Dist 19 just days away (Feb 2^nd)things are heating up and getting quite nasty between the three Republican candidates.  Front runner Edward Lynch is being attacked by his two

Comment by Jammie Wearing Fool:

Obama Reflects On His Favorite Subject

Barack Obama is trying to sell his favorite subject, to wit himself, Glenn Thrush, Politico:

Rep. Marion Berry’s parting shot, published in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette [no link,

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• IDIOCY SQUARED: I mentioned in last night’s Ramble that the Democrats are busy avoiding the real issue… and used that blithering

Eric Zimmerman, Hill writes

President Obama came out swinging today against the Supreme Court’s ruling in a major campaign finance case.[…]

With its ruling today, the Supreme Court has given a green light to a new stampede of special

It is hard having to correct the boss.  
But I’ve been doing it for a long time and somebody needs to do.  Alas!   Eric rambled:

ISSUE AVOIDANCE: It is flat out amazing to me that the wild scramble for

The democrats lost a Senate seat in the bluest of states, Massachusetts, because they were blind to concerns the ordinary American voter, from  Mark Katherine Ham, Weekly Standard:

Democrats fooled themselves into believing the town-hall/Tea Party caricature and ignored the

As the drunks pronounce her name,  Marcia Coakley, Associated Press:

Patrick Kennedy, the son of the late Teddy and a Congressman from nearby Rhode Island, showed up to give his support for Coakley’s bid to become Teddy Kennedy’s heir.