That Time Vs This Time; Amazing What Happens When Local Governments Do Their Jobs, Ain’t It?

Bruce at Q&O dives into the swamp known as Gustav in relation to the RNC. It’s a worthy article, but one point of disagreement:

Frankly, keeping Bush out of the convention limelight is a positive. How to do that without

Bob Herbert, New York Times, attempts to slime John McCain, only to show his true and bigoted colors:

The racial fantasy factor in this presidential campaign is out of control. It was at work in that New Yorker cover

Yesterday, David and I both blogged regarding Nancy Pelosi’s stonewalling on energy management.  The saga continues today. I’d like you to see something. Here’s a letter ostensibly written by Pelosi, to President Bush:(with my commentary interjected.)

July 8, 2008

The

An interesting admission on this Obama tape thing I mentioned yesterday and the day before, from Jim Geraghty at NRO:

The preponderance of the evidence now suggests that there’s nothing there. One of the arguments that made me think there

Let’s take a moment to look at the Democrat response to the President’s weekly radio address… where Energy is the issue.

Good morning. This is Congressman Joe Donnelly of Indiana’s Second Congressional District. Today it is my pleasure to talk

I see that Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu (D), is presently asking the Congress for $250 BILLION to rebuild New Orleans.

Let’s break out the spreadsheet.

NOLA has 484,674 residents. Broken down by person, that means each one gets paid $516,528.00

• Quite the shouting match going on over at Q&O, over that bit that Billy referenced earlier this morning. The subject? Well, I’m convinced about half of those involved don’t know and another 49% don’t understand it. For the first time

We saw something very clever in the last week of this campaign coming out of Iowa, going into New Hampshire, we saw a sensitivity factor. Something that Mrs. Clinton has not been able to do with voters that she tried

James Taranto, the other day(Via mail) speaks about Murtha admitting there’s serious progress in Iraq, and that the surge IS working….

Murtha does make the obligatory complaint about lack of political progress in Iraq, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that

Hewitt calls CNN:

“The Most Busted Name in News”

No serious anchor would want to be where Cooper is today, at the center of a vast train wreck which cannot be explained away as the inevitable result of the sudden

AllahPundit over at Hot Air is reporting Murtha is finally admitting the surge is working.

The question is will ever apoligize to the troops he slandered?

More Memorandum

Update and Bump: (Bit)

CNN is saying that Murtha has taken the

Just a concept I want to capture. Think of this what you will;

With all the progress that’s been happening in Iraq of late, the last refuge of the left is to complain that the Iraqi federal government there doesn’t

Times are tough for the Republican Party and its candidates. Earlier this month, according to Gallup, more people strongly disapproved of George W. Bush than any previous president since the advent?of polling—and, really, how could things be any different? Bush

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

Here is an interesting story that really doesn’t need much in the way of comment.

By SCOTT LINDLAW
SAN DIEGO (AP) – Like Hurricane Katrina evacuees two years earlier in New Orleans, thousands of people rousted by natural disaster fled