Nightly Ramble Monday

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• YEAH, I KNOW…. I let these Nightly Forays into political  and social commentary slide for a few nights. I’m still getting used to

This is what many prominent left-kook environazis think about you…

“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about?” -Maurice Strong, Head of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio

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This is the “Where everybody names your nose” Edition.

• COLOR ME AMAZED: Nobody else has noted that  Letterman didn’t make an

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This is the ” Tax Protest” Edition

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This is the “Delivery Truck” Edition.

• Jackson: If you’re looking for a glowing obit, singing the unalloyed praises of the 50

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This is the “Bread, MIlk and a Sixpack Edition”

• Publius/Whalen Redux: By way of James Joyner, I see that the English

Barack Obama is noted for carrying a lot of grudes.   Among the first  thing BO did as president was to return a bust of Winston Churchill to the Brits.     The Obama adminstration has made it a point to deny any

Bush adminstration prepared for pandemics, Tevi Troy, Wall Street Journal:

Swine flu has presented the Obama administration with its first major public-health crisis. Fortunately for the Obama team, the Bush administration developed new tools that will prove critical

Back on the 11th of this month, I posted a quick note from my Palm Treo, asking about those DVD’s Obama gave Gordon Brown. Were they even playable, I wondered, given the technology changes between the states and the

The London Daily Mail’s Ian Gallagher:

The only terrorist captured alive after the Mumbai massacre has given police the first full account of the extraordinary events that led to it – revealing he was ordered to ‘kill until the last

Welcome dear reader, to the most intense nightly read on the ‘sphere… BitsBlog’s Nightly Ramble. Just one more day to the big day…. Halloween, of course. Oh, yeah, sure… there’s that election thing, too.

Hmmm. Maybe we oughta talk

Erica Wagner at the London Times notes the passage of one of the great voices of freedom: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:

Years of internal exile and suffering never daunted him. The 1962 publication of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Senator Obama this morning said that he wants a foreign policy that is “tough, smart, and principled.” This afternoon, I ask: was it tough when Senator Obama voted to order U.S. forces to retreat from Iraq on a fixed timeline—regardless

Marie Colvin at The London Times, reports on troop movements and successes in Iraq. Of course nobody in the domestic press has bothered to notice, since apparently success isn’t the picture the domestic mainstream media has decided it wants

Mrs. Clinton’s scorched earth policy, Boston Globe:

LAST YEAR at the beginning of the presidential primary season, Democrats were giddy with excitement. Not only did we have an embarrassment of riches in our candidates but we had two