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Argus Leader:Commercial red meat production in South Dakota during September was up 1 percent from a year ago, according to the state Agricultural Statistics Service. Production in South Dakota totaled 87.3 million pounds for September, an increase of 5 percent...

Joe Girardi has agreed in principle to become the next manager of the Florida Marlins, exiting his role as the Yankee bench coach. Details of the contract will be finalized tonight. Funny Joe Girardi story. In about 1993 or 1994,...

BUCHANAN: Miers May Have Helped Save Bush's Presidency

While the Chief views some of Patrick Buchanan's opinions with a certain skepticism - especially as regards mid-east policies - he is spot-on here.

By withdrawing her nomination, Harriet Miers spared herself an agonizing inquisition and probable rejection by the Senate and did George W. Bush the greatest service of her career. She may just have helped him save his presidency....

With a single stroke -- the nomination of a Supreme Court justice who will remove the smile from the countenance of Chuck Schumer and unite his unhappy household in praise of Bush and anticipation of battle, as they pull down the rusty old pike-staffs from the wall, President Bush can begin the resurrection of his presidency.

Indeed!

COULTER on Miers Withdrawal: It's Morning in America!

After being one of the avid spear chuckers in the opposition to the Miers nomination, Ann Coulter is expectedly pleased about her withdrawel, and its potential significance.

Since Harriet Miers withdrew her nomination to the Supreme Court, Democratic senators like Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, Chuck Schumer, and Dick Durbin ? i.e. all the people who had absolutely nothing to do with Miers? withdrawal ? have been blanketing the airwaves demanding that Bush now accede to their demands. So it?s good to see Democrats are still working on getting in touch with reality.

The Democrats didn?t utter a note of disagreement with the Miers nomination. But now they say her withdrawal is their victory, which Bush must be forced to acknowledge by nominating a candidate to their liking. I believe that?s what got Bush in trouble in the first place: Listening to Democratic Senator Harry Reid, who recommended Miers for the Supreme Court.

She goes on with more commentary and exposition in her customarily outspoken style. If you haven't done so, it's worth a read.

She copncludes the piece:

With Miers withdrawal, Bush has us back on the team, ready to cheer for him unreservedly. All we ask is that you please not listen to Harry Reid next time.

Hear, hear!

I can't even begin to mount the pile of links and information out there about Plamegate, and I'm fine with that. For one, I don't have the time. For another, tomorrow is supposed to be the big "press conference," so...

'Tell it to the troops'

This piece from USMC Lt. General James T. Conway caught my attention for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it is a piece of blazingly bright reason on a subject that most of the media severely misreports. Secondly, the Chief had the privilige of knowing Gen. Conway many years ago in St. Louis at Roosevelt H.S., where he graduated in '65, a year behind the Chief's class. He was determined already to pursue a military career, and already was pursuing (and achieving) excellence in a number of ways. Obviously he has continued to do so.

This piece is just terrific. General Conway shows that unlike the MSM, he has acquired some real situational awareness over there:

One hundred and forty-four years ago last month, the first major battle of the American Civil War had been joined on a small stream named Bull Run, outside Washington D.C. As the fighting neared its climax, a Confederate staff officer galloped his horse up Henry Hill and hailed Brigadier General Thomas Jackson. He shouted above the din of cannon and musketry, "Sir, I fear the battle is lost."

Jackson, astride his horse near the crest of the ridge watching the advancing Union brigades, looked over his shoulder at his own brigade of Virginians on the reverse slope, lying prone but at the ready. He then turned his gaze on the officer and responded in a low voice, "You may think it, Sir, but you had best not say it to those troops!"

Jackson's words of so long ago still contain sound advice for those journalists, pundits, and official visitors who journey to Iraq. If you have any misgivings that the Coalition and Iraqi Forces are losing this war against insurgents and terrorists, then you had better not say so in their presence-lest you attract a hostile crowd.

The fact is, they get it. They are closest to the action, they feel the momentum shifts, and they know when they have taken the best the enemy can dish out. They know what victory looks like and smells like-and they know it's only a matter of time.

Read the rest of it! It's definitely grist for the mill to counteract the moonbat seditious defeatism that dominates the MSM and the Donks' dominant left wing.

Lawmakers renew push to break up 9th Circuit

According to the Associated Press, Republicans in Congress are renewing their push to break up the San Francisco-based Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals.

This would be a step in the right direction. The 9th Circuit Jerk-it Court of Appeals Schlemiels is reversed more often than any other Federal circuit, and has the largest assortement of of moonbat judges in the country. Anything that would dilute this mess would be an improvement.

Joseph Bottum discussed good 'ol South Dakota, America, and the Fall of Memory: American Childhood and the American Memory. Excerpt: WHEN I LONG FOR ESCAPE, I dream of the prairie. The last time I was out west, visiting my childhood...

Like Jeremy Funk (Mark Haugen law suit) Chad Schuldt, fellow Hildebrand Boy, has a habit of making false statements and then refuses to make corrections after being confronted with the truth. This happened when he claimed ANWR was in the...

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