Stop the Freeping Panic

Flash the stock market is adjusting, not crashing. As Michellle points out, today Dow drop did not crack the market’s all time top ten list in percentage of market share lose.

Today’s stock market drop is a record point drop,

These Nightly Rambles are all things I’ve found during the day. I input them all day long and auto-post whatever I’ve collected at around 4 to 430 eastern. I put things in here that catch my eye but that perhaps

It’s immensely amusing;

The last several years we have had long lines of leftists denounce saying the Middle East politics of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”. This argument, apparently, is supposed to suggest that our involvement in

• Did you see this about Pfleger? Michelle Malkin points this up, today:
  

  Say it with me: Boo-freaking-hoo. Via the Chicago Sun-Times’ Cathleen Falsani:

  Pfleger has apologized for “the words that I chose” and for “my dramatization.” Pfleger told me he

The audacity of stupidity and being too young to remember the Carter Administration.

May 1 (Bloomberg) — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama‘s proposal for a windfall profits tax on oil companies could cost $15 billion a year at

HMM: “I think it is obvious that the superdelegates will pick Obama. They have their own self-interest to consider, not to mention the long-term interest of the party. The choice for Obama is clear â?? and it would be clear

The Campaign Spot, earlier today, says:

Liberal radio talk show host Ed Schultz calls John McCain a warmonger at an Obama rally, and the Obama campaign issues a terse statement that he shouldn’t be called that term (and

You gotta give Jimmy Carter credit.   While Carter lacks brains, he sure has balls.   Fresh off being shown to be a liar by Hamas, Carter has called Condoleezza Rice a liar, Steve Gilbert, Sweetness & Light:

We are

• Look, Billy, I’m somewhat sympathetic to the argument, but let’s not lose sight of the fact that they went to this place with the specific goal in mind of pissing off the constabulary. To what end? Don’t tell me

JERUSALEM —Washington Times-  Hamas said yesterday it was prepared to accept a Palestinian state within 1967 borders, but contradicted a statement by former President Jimmy Carter that it would accept Israel’s right to exist if that was the will of

James Joyner, this morning:

Glenn Reynolds links, with praise, to an article about Hillary Clinton claiming that she would go to war with Iran if they attacked Israel.

Clinton further displayed tough talk in an interview airing on “Good

• Yeah, full moon, tonight. And no, I don’t mean the guy with his butt hanging out the window of the Yugo to your left.  It’s been a weird day, already.
• Your first clue, Billy, should have been when the two

Ex and disgraced President Jimmy Carter is reported to have said that Hamas, a terrorist organization, would accept the right of the State of Israel to exists, if a peace acgreement were negotiated and approved.

JERUSALEM (CNN) —

• In talking with a few people, I’ve decided that instead of going for an all in one shot theme change, I’m going to try and use the existing framework, and do a slow change over time. Dabble with the colors,

I came to know Carter well.

When he ran for reelection, he asked me to campaign for him in 1980 — I was by then Mayor of New York City — and I said that I would vote for him,