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

Holiday weekend, so this will be a short one… essentially a nod to the Ramble Tradition.

• As to the holiday itself, let me say this clearly: Labor unions have outlived their usefulness, and have evolved to the point where they

I commented earlier this week that I had my doubts about Jesse Jackson’s open-mike trick.

What if this comment of Jackson’s was staged to give Obama some white street creds?

Normally, I’d not give the man credit for being able

Interesting note from Baton Rouge by way of NOLA.COM

BATON ROUGE — The state Legislature on Friday wrapped up its second special session during the 2-month-old administration of Gov. Bobby Jindal by completing a full sweep of the governor’s proposed

• Yikes! How long did THIS take to set up? Clearly some engineering genius has far too much time on their hands. Rube had nothing on these folks.
• The WSJ is saying that Obama is just now figuring out that the

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

By way of OTB, I see that the Louisiana primary went down about as expected; Ron Paul beat Romney, but both of them lost to Fred Thompson. That a couple of comparatively liberal northeastern pols wouldn’t do well down

• 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

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

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

Surber is still playing “Name that Party”

I doubt AP would have downplayed a Republican losing over a racist remark.

As a member of the MSM for most of my adult life, I should resent charges of a pro-Democrat bias

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

Michelle Malkin reports, today:

The Chicago Tribune’s Howard Witt penned an investigative piece published yesterday on the controversy surrounding the charitable funds raised for the Jena 6. I’m sure you’ll be shocked to learn that much of the money can’t

Captain Ed says: 

Louisiana elected its governor on the first ballot for the first time in recent memory, and the voters sent a message to the corrupt Democratic machine at the same time. Bobby Jindal, who narrowly lost a runoff