In her recent syndicated column, Marianne Means turned her jaundiced left-liberal attentions to potential GOP Presidential hopeful Fred Thompson, in the process, penning the quintessential “progressive” political opinion column—one filled with condescension, veiled and not-so-veiled cheap shots, falsehoods presented as established truth, and character attacks attributed to unnamed third-party sources. In short, it was precisely the kind of column that progressives like to write—one that leaves uninformed readers with misinformed,

Lots of my favorite blogs have been dropping off of the radar screen lately.  Wuzzadem has been, as I’m sure has been clear from my links, one of my favorite sites for a long, long time.  Lately, though, John’s output has drooped (though Mrs. R has done some excellent work), and he hasn’t added a single post to his faves in the sidebar since the classic Greenwald(s) He Said/He Said

Rasmussen: Just 20% of American voters want Congress to try and pass the immigration reform bill that failed in the Senate last week. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 51% would like their legislators to “take smaller steps towards reform” while 16% believe they should wait until next year. The survey was conducted on Monday and Tuesday night as the President was publicly attempting to rally support for

Poor guy.  I think we can all relate: Camacho won super lightweight, lightweight and junior welterweight world titles in the 1980s. His last title bout came against then-welterweight champion Oscar De La Hoya in 1997, a loss by unanimous decision. A warrant was issued for Camacho on Dec. 22, 2004, for a November burglary of a computer store. While arresting him in January 2005, police say they found the Ecstasy.

A certain lack of self-reflection: After questioning eight witnesses, Pearson spent two hours telling his own story, but as he came to the part about when Soo Chung finally told him she had found the missing pants, the tale of the $10.50 alteration that went awry proved to be too much. “These are not my pants,” Pearson recalled telling Chung when she handed him a pair of gray pants with

Envoy’s damning verdict revealed as violence takes Gaza closer to civil war The first few paragraphs seem to bear that impression out: The highest ranking UN official in Israel has warned that American pressure has “pummelled into submission” the UN’s role as an impartial Middle East negotiator in a damning confidential report. The 53-page “End of Mission Report” by Alvaro de Soto, the UN’s Middle East envoy, obtained by the

From ABC News/AP: Gay couples have been marrying in Massachusetts for more than three years, but the battle over same-sex marriage in the only state that allows it is anything but settled. Lawmakers meet Thursday in a special joint session to decide the fate of a proposed constitutional amendment that would overturn the landmark 2003 court ruling granting gays the right to marry. They have three options: send the question

From the RMN wire: As Mike Nifong was calling the Duke lacrosse team a “bunch of hooligans” in public, he was privately acknowledging that the rape case would be hard to prove without DNA evidence and without being able to prove that a suspect was even at the party in which the stripper claimed she was raped and beaten. But the Durham County district attorney insisted on pressing ahead with

Yeah, I know that they threatened to plunge the region into war if the UN pursued an investigation into Asshat and Company, but surely they’re not blatant enough to do anything like this: BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) — A member of the Lebanese parliament was killed in an explosion Wednesday outside a Beirut military sports club in what hospital sources said was an assassination. Lawmaker Walid Eido, known as a foe