Breakfast Scramble: Fred Thompson Edition

Fred is back! Well, kind of, sort of.  It no secret that the last presidential candidate we liked was Fred Thompson.  Alas Fred was just not into that campaign thing.  Well now the closest incarnation of Fred has announced.  Thad

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• CASH FOR CLUNKERS WAS A CLINKER: Not that we expected otherwise, but the waste involved with the thing is staggering. The Christian

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• POLANSKI: Glenn Reynolds says in a Washington Examiner column over the weekend:
  

  “Technologically and market-wise, Hollywood is in the weakest

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This is the “We Need a Basketball” Edition

• The Infomercial: Heck no, I didn’t watch it. Neither did most other Americans. Those

I am disturbed, but not surprised by some of the comments made by Barrack Obama as regards the role of a Justice of the Supreme Court and thereby, what we will get in the replacement for Justice David Souter, who

The long and winding road, the Gipper nails Obama, with a wee bit of help from Fred Barnes.   Ronald Reagan (audio), 1964:

“Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so

Remember the late Carl Sagan, the theoretical astronomer?    Sagan was probably the only astronomer to be regular quest to the Tonight Show.   For all I know, Sagan was very good theoretical astronomer.  Not my cup of tea.    However Sagan never

I am neither a lawyer, play one on television, nor give press conferences pretending to me one.    In other words, I am not Barack Obama,  Helene Cooper, New York Times:

WASHINGTON – President Obama vowed to try to stop

I tossed this out at Q&O, almost as a throwaway. But the more I consider things, I wonder if I’ve not hit on something central. I’ve cleaned it up here a bit, since it was originally composed and posted

If you want to be in the business of economic recovery you need to do things to encourage that. If you want to be in the business of conducting a grand social experiment, you ignore the advice and pleas of