Alexander M. Haig, General, United States Army: RIP(age 85)

General Alexander M. Haig, United State Army, died today at age 85,  from Mark Feeney, Boston Globe:

Alexander M. Haig Jr., who as secretary of state declared “I’m in control here” when Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981, and

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• INTERESTING PASSAGE: The guy who shot up the Holocaust Museum a few months ago, has died in prison.
• NIGERIA LAUGHER: Nigeria is

I know legend has that the American writer Edgar Allan Poe died a drunk on the streets of Baltimore in 1849.

Yet in the spirit of first Ronald Reagan, and now Jake Tapper, trust but verify, can we be so

How do you teach a puppy not to poop in the house?    You rub his nose in it.   Hannah Giles,  Bir Government,  rubs the main stream media’s collective nose in their poop.

But rather than simply pointing a finger

An interesting “Mia Culpa” from the New York Times this morning, in the form of an article from Clark Hoyt, The Times “Public Editor”

ON Sept. 12, an Associated Press article inside The Times reported that the Census Bureau had

Andrew Breitbart, Big Government,  has released what five ACORN videos.   Let me see, Baltimore, DC, Brooklyn,  San Bernadino and San Diego.    So I find it hard to accept this line from the one at face value, from this Weak

• THE OBAMA SPEECH: FAIL Art Smith looks at the Obama speech last night and asks if the speech changed your mind. So does Hinderaker. They both came, of course to the same conclusion. And Byron York notices somehting in

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• First off, in answer to some email I’ve been getting asking about Gingrich and his comments about Palin… Look, gang, this is Newt

Attributed to Mrs. Pelosi by Jimmie, Sundries Shack:

“The House is in adjournment. The lights are off, the mikes are off…They can talk all they want. We’re just doing what we normally do.”

Even BO is calling the price

From Rush H. Limbaugh, Jr. (Father of notable EIB radio host, Rush.)
“…our lives, our fortunes, our sacred honor…”
It was a glorious morning. The sun was shining and the wind was from the southeast. Up especially early, a tall,