The Ramble: 04-13-11

Saratoga,NY— I’m delivering at a warehouse here. I’m writing this on my phone, so sorry I don’t have any pics to show you; I’ve not figured out how to do that yet.

Kind of an active week, though slightly screwed

The Great Lady on the passing of the cows, from Phyllis Schlafly, Townhall:

Another contemporary feminist, professor and author Linda Hirshman, set forth a popular definition in the Daily Beast. She wrote that “support for abortion rights and

The coming battle, from Melissa Maynard, Stateline:

Public sector unions have escaped a comparable decline in their ranks, with 36.2 percent of state and local employees still in unions. But an increasingly loud chorus of governors and state

SOTU reax, Washington Post:

PRESIDENT OBAMA entered office promising to be a different kind of politician – one who would speak honestly with the American people about the hard choices they face and would help make those hard

C’mon. Chris Matthews has to know how hypocritical he comes off. There must be something wrong….

Chris Matthews on Thursday actually showed a graphic image of the Capitol building with a red target on it and crosshairs in the foreground.

The KKK is gone, the Kennedy Kongressional Klan is gone.  Free at last, free at last.

Class envy, from James Carroll, Boston Globe:

If a just society is defined by the relationship between the well off and

Fox News, reports, George Soros whines, from Ben Dimiero, Media Spatters:

FOXLEAKS: Fox boss ordered staff to cast doubt on climate science

In the midst of global climate change talks last December, a top Fox News official sent an

Roland S. Martin lauds FLOTUS, Martin attacks Sarah Palin for questioning the Fat Lady of the United States’, a/k/a Michelle Obama anti obesity jihad:

(CNN) — It’s clear that we can’t go 24 hours without Sarah Palin

Newsweak ponders if the presidency has grown too big for one mere mortal:

Can any single person fully meet the demands of the 21st-century presidency? Obama has looked to many models of leadership, including FDR and Abraham Lincoln, two transformative

Last night was a drubbing of a sitting president like we have not seen since 1932. At this writing, we’re at around 60 seats worth of swing away from the Democrats, and by the end of this, possibly 70 seats.

Man up Barney! Congressman Barney Frank sends his other half to do his dirty work from Fleming and Hayes:

October 16, 2010 – Upon exiting the most recent debate with Barney Frank, located at WGBH studios in Boston, MA,

Unfortunately, watching the gubernatorial race here in New York, is I think indicative of what’s going to be happening in the whole of the country.

As of this writing Cuomo is something like twenty points ahead in the polls.  Of

There is little to no doubt in anyone’s mind that there is going to be a massive change in Washington , come November, and probably an even bigger one, come 2013.  There’s also little doubt as to exactly why.  The

HEY BILLY:

You’ve nailed this one.

I am going to die laughing at one of the most spectacular dumbells of my time on this planet. Andrew Sullivan, you are just darling, you adorable little fireball, you. You’re “radicalized”!

Is

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