? Fox News: Obama to Call for Major Road, Rail and Runway Runaway Spending Vowing to find new ways to stimulate the sputtering economy, President Obama will call for long-term investments in the nation’s infrastructure that would cost at least $50 billion, administration officials say. *  Fixed It For Ya ...

Fox News: “Some measures on illegal immigration to the United States have improved, but the Obama administration is ignoring violence spilling into the U.S. from Mexico.” See full story at Fox News link above. ...

My Long Distance Wireless connectivity solution has been found: It’s called Wire! The wireless signal to my PC was some 90 feet from the wireless router. Low signal strength and slow connections were normal.  I used a wireless range extender for about a year. Good signal strength, but lots of dropped connections. I tried Wireless-G and Wire...

Fascinating. ...

(from Teachenor Clark) Oh, Hell Yes. ...

“Sit back and take a real hard look.” from BulletPeople.com h/t The Blaze (Glenn Beck’s new web digs) - give it a look. ...

At Iowahawk ...

Anyone live within driving distance of Somerset Pennsylvania? It’s a beautiful place to visit and a group of motorcyclists from Indianapolis is already going. Tom Burnett Senior and Alec Rawls are buying full page color ads in the Somerset Daily American for both Friday the 10th and Saturday the 11th, so anyone who makes the trip will have a...

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Visitor number 300,000 from Manassas, Virginia was a referral from Say Uncle‘s place. Thanks for spinning the SiteMeter! ...

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9:41pm: Murkowski will hold a press conference in twenty minutes. 9:40pm: Being generous, let’s say there are 7000 valid GOP votes left to be counted. Murkowski would need 61% of them to win. She’s done. From Swing State Project UPDATE: CNN’s Shannon Travis in Anchorage has confirmed that Sen. Lisa Murkowski will concede tonigh...

Big Government says, “the trend in the count of absentee ballots makes it virtually impossible that Sen. Murkowski will overtake Joe Miller in the GOP Senate Primary.” It’s Over. ...

What’s next? Funemployment Camps? ...

Dear Abby, Dear Abby … My feet are too long My hair’s falling out and my rights are all wrong My friends they all tell me they’re no friends at all Won’t you write me a letter, Won’t you give me a call Signed Bewildered Bewildered, Bewildered… [Chorus:] You have no complaint You are what your are and you ainR...

The federal government’s Clean Water Act contains guideline to reduce the amount of nitrogen and phosphates that are introduced into municipal sewage treatment facilities.  As of July 1, phosphates are now banned as an ingredient of dishwasher detergent in 16 states. Manufacturers’ new offerings can be expected to turn aluminum uten...

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I love the FlightAware.com site. I use it to track flights and arrivals to pick people up at the airport.  It even shows arrival gates – an important feature in an airport like DFW where gates can be a quarter-mile apart. But … Yesterday (8/27) at 10:53 PM – Eastern Time, FlightAware became Flight-a-Scare as the inbound flight I...

Instalanche at Sharp as a Marble Two thousand, two hundred and ninety seven days of running this here blog and I finally got an Instalanche! Thanks Glenn! ...

My rental car – a KIA Sorrento, has a USB slot to the sound system. Yay! I had to format the Thumb-Drive as FAT32 to make it recognizable, but once that was done, here’s the travelin’ tunes I loaded up: 38 Special – Hold On Loosely Alanis Morrisette – You Oughta Know Alien Ant Farm – Smooth Criminal Argent ̵...

Has the Tea Party Put Another Senate Seat Into Play? Short Answer: Yes The New Republic posts: Last month I (I am quoting Jonathan Chait, Senior Editor- Ed.) touted the possibility that Tea Party candidate Joe Miller could upset Lisa Murkowski in the Alaska Republican Senate primary, possibly turning another safe GOP seat into a race. I think I s...

In what could become one of the biggest political upsets of the year, Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski trailed her tea-party-backed opponent by a small margin Wednesday in Alaska’s GOP primary with thousands of votes yet to be counted. Attorney Joe Miller, who also had the backing of former Gov. Sarah Palin, led Murkowski by less than 3 ...

Ed Morrissey at Hot Air writes this. ...

How can I call this race with some 16,000 absentee ballots left to be counted? It’s simple: As far as I can tell, there are no Democrats involved in the counting process. ?We’ve had enough of “hanging chad” elections where “voter intent” was determined in closed rooms. Joe Wins! DaTechguy’s Blog has more a...

?Classical Values has the story. To be fair, it wasn’t entirely Sarah Palin’s endorsement that led to Joe Miller’s victory.  It was coverage on the Mark Levin Show that convinced me to support Joe’s campaign. Last month I traveled to Alaska, met with Joe’s campaign officers in Anchorage and asked  Joe’s Resear...

? As of 10:20am eastern (which is 6:20 in Alaska) Joe Miller is leading incumbent RINO Lisa Murkowski by just under 2,000 votes with 98% of the vote counted. Still unaccounted are the absentees. h/t to Ace ...

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski is battling for her political life this morning against Republican primary challenger Joe Miller, the Tea Party-backed candidate who had a slim lead as ballots continued to be counted overnight. Miller, a Fairbanks attorney, led from when the first returns came in Tuesday night, and was on the verge of pulling off one of t...

The Hill reports (posted 4:48 AM): Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) is in danger of becoming the third incumbent senator to lose in the 2010 election cycle. Attorney Joe Miller appears on the verge of a stunning upset in Alaska’s Republican Senate primary but the race has not been officially called and could be headed for a recount.? The Tea P...

Seen in a Fast Cupid ad. Seriously, elbows? Knees I maybe kind of get, but ELBOWS? How does that work? ...

Weak BS Story at Daily Caller claims “political groups oftentimes pay bloggers for their insights”.  See  True stories of bloggers who secretly feed on partisan cash. Myself, I am pleased with the (not quite) daily wheelbarrows of cash from the NRA that appear at my door. ...

Vote on 8/24 Alaska! ...

Alaska’s Tea Party Senatorial Primary (from TownHall.com) Posted by : John Hanlon at 10:02 PM It seems odd to question how much of an effect the tea party will have in this Tuesday’s Alaskan Senatorial primary. Alaska’s own former Governor Sarah Palin is a well-known tea party supporter, and the former vice presidential candi...

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Fellow Patriots: A critical election for U.S. Senate is just 4 days away and constitutional conservatives across America need to rally together to support Conservative Republican Joe Miller for U.S. Senate in Alaska. Joe is up against the political establishment and special interests in Alaska, and I can tell you first hand that my own family has...