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Andy McCarthy: "There is the Pakistan of our fantasy. The burgeoning democracy in whose vanguard are judges and lawyers and human rights activists using the ?rule of law? as a cudgel to bring down a military junta. In the fantasy,...

Clean up our act, or more inflation? Inflation wins!

Bank of England and Fed act to ease crisis The Bank of England this afternoon announced it is clubbing together with its fellow central banks to conduct a major rescue operation for the world’s stricken money markets. In an unprecedented move, the Bank said it and the Federal Reserve, the Bank of Canada, the European [...]

Statistical Dead Head in Iowa

A new McClatchy-MSNBC poll shows a statistical dead head in Iowa in the Democratic presidential race and a shift in the Republican race. John Edwars leads with 24%, followed by Sen. Hillary Clinton with 23%. Since the last poll in...

Huckabysmal Ignorance on Pakistan

The Washington Post has a good test of the various candidates for President: how they reacted to the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. Here is the summary of results: THE ASSASSINATION of Benazir Bhutto presented U.S. presidential candidates with a test:...

Get out of Sioux Falls way.

Pat Powers is a liar?

?Pat Powers says this today: I was checking out some of the various political websites on the Internet today. Just on the off chance that more information might have been available from the SDCAC in reference to my infamous ten...

A Bhutto Successor

Time reports that Bhutto's nineteen-year-old son, Bilawal Bhutto, will take over the leadership of her Pakistan People's Party: A senior official of Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) told TIME late Saturday that the slain former prime minister's 19-year-old son,...

Rendezvous at the Rendezvous Rib Joint

If Jazz if America's great contribution to music, and the Europeans certainly think it is, Barbecue is America's great contribution to the global kitchen. The best pork ribs I have ever tasted in a restaurant were served to me Thursday...

What's New with the Blogs

America's Challenge

Selling Real Estate over at www.patpowers.com

What's Next For Blogs For Bush?

Confirmed: Fox and ABC Bail on Paul

A Simple Story

Huckabee headed for Leno?s couch

South Dakota Blogs

The Case For Thompson

Benazir Bhutto Assassinated

I wonder why we haven't seen that yet....

More Holiday Cheer!

Sorry for the light posting today... In the meantime, more on the immigration issue.

Plutocracy and secular humanism

Are dirty deeds really done dirt cheap? And how did they let out the bid for that one?

The why's and wheretofores of the upcoming changes at the SDWC.

Change is coming....

Study: Global Climate Unlinked from CO2

Change is nearly upon us....

A Brief History of Christmas

Assault on free speech

The Ten Most Corrupt Political Figures of 2007

Cultural Marxism in Malaysia

Why America's in the Gulf

The Higher Ed scam

Blognote

American Blogs