The Ramble: Saturday

I’ve had an interesting week traveling around in the truck. Some of it, I ended up using someone else’s truck since mine was under repair. Lower miles as a result mean lower income, I suppose, but that goes with the

Hello and welcome to yet another edition of the most intense nightly read anywhere on the World Wide Web; the BitsBlog Nightly Ramble.

• THE CLIMATEGATE WHITEWASH CONTINUES: Myron Ebell explains. Today’s must read.
• FOX CAVES? It certainly appears so.  Any

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• LACK OF ACCOMPLISHMENT: They’re starting to recognize, over on the left that the continual campaign mode of Mr Obama is

Melissa Clouthier makes an argument at Pajamas Media that I’ve been making,…. both here and there… for quite some time, now:

I’m tired of Mike Huckabee, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Tom Ridge, and the rest of them. I’m tired of

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This is the “Bang the Drum Slowly” Edition

• Spectre Specter: I’ve gotten some interesting feedback from readers on this monring article on

Christian Bando is dead at 49.

Let’s see, here. Mother lost custody of him because of what the courts decided was a dependency on drugs and alcohol. And Christian, with his mother as a shining example,  dies of exactly that,

Keith B. Richburg, Washington Post, fights to keep his Rolodex relevant, and explores the issue of the Reverend Al Sharpton’s relevance:

Sharpton has “been eclipsed, because Obama puts guys like Sharpton in the shadow,” said Fred Siegel, a historian

As Canada wages war against the pundit Mark Steyn,  Melanie Phillips, Spectator(UK), poses question does Canada still exist as a free and democratic nation: 

The irony, of course, is that by this action Canada is thus demonstrating that if

It seems that folks who aren’t even a little hesitant to rally the crowds round the “choice” to kill a baby in the womb, get downright riled when the bloodstained pictures of the act itself make it into the public

Mrs. Clinton’s remaining supporters believe she is tough, via Memeorandum:

This isn’t an anti-Hillary crowd. She gets high marks for her experience, intelligence and toughness; these qualities, they suspect, are what voters demand.

Mrs. Clinton’s s supporters are

Rich Lowry…. who I have some stout dispute on in terms of the Fair Tax issue (It’d help if Rich actually did some research on the matter) gets it pretty much spot on here, as regards the rise of social

There’s an old adage which states that the reason that PETA goes after rich women in furs, as opposed to motorcycle gangs wearing leather, is because the latter is far more likely to get one killed outright.

I have to

Curt, Flopping Aces, notes:  

The religion of peace strikes again in France.  This time a couple kids killed themselves by riding stolen mopeds into a police car and the Muslims riot:

A cynic such as myself might think

Who decided that my six-year-old should dress like a Vegas showgirl? And one with an abundance of anger issues at that?

Celia Rivenbark, Sun(NY).

 Hat Tip:  Lucianne.

I note Boortz, yesterday, looking at this Michael Vick business with his usual jaundiced eye:

Now .. here’s the laugh of the week. Vick’s attorney is Billy Martin.  Here’s what Martin had to say to the press after Vick disappeared