FITS Evening Post: Cali, Etc.

At the end of each day, we invariably wind up with about five or six different Internet windows open – and literally thirty or forty individual web pages starting back at us on our computer.  Contained within those screens are dozens of different stories that caught our eye during the day, but for whatever reason (cough … personal time) we weren’t able to write about in more detail.

Since it drives us absolutely nuts to close all those windows down (without saying so much as a word about any of them), we figured we would try to brainstorm (drizzle?) a solution that enabled us to bring them to you – with some comment – prior to tossing them out on the ash heap of “old news.”

Accordingly, here is our first-ever edition of the “FITS Evening Post,” a little wrap-up that we hope to provide you with on some semblance of a semi-regular basis …

AMERICA

Going Back To Cali:  But will it be a third world country when you get there?  This article by The Observer‘s Paul Harris takes you “behind the numbers” of what could be “America’s first failed state …” well, other than South Carolina, obviously. (read)

Beat Those Nazis: A Connecticut Republican compares his entry into a U.S. Senate race to going “off to fight the Nazis.”  Peter Schiff has a way with metaphors, people. (read)

Did She S-S-Stutter?:  Virginia is electing a governor this year (2009?) and apparently the latest issue in the race is the fact that the founder of BET made fun of a candidate with a speech impediment.  Crazy?  Nope … this is the M-m-m-acaca State! (read)

Bloggers Must Disclose? What?:  We’re going to pretend like we never read this article.  Seriously.  The Federal Trade Commission will have to pry this information from our cold dead finders or whatever it was Charlton Heston said about his guns. (read)

SPORTS

Sucks To Be Kentucky:  They can knock Tim Tebow flat on his Heisman Trophy-winning ass, but Kentucky can’t seem to take down the University of South Carolina Shame/ Lamecocks.  Columnist John Clay of the Lexington Herald-Leader takes you inside the Wildcats futility against USC. (read)

SC POLITICS

Mulvaney For Congress:  S.C. Senator Mick Mulvaney (R-Indian Land) is planning to run for the U.S. Congress against fourteen-term incumbent John Spratt, according to GOP executive committeeman Glenn “Token” McCall.  The story broke in Monday’s Rock Hill Herald, with “reporter” (and closet Wen-Kim fan) Matt Garfield getting the scoop. (read)

More Mulvaney: This is a post on McCall’s “Mulvaney announcement” from the Lindsey Graham-Henry McMaster blog, Palmetto Scoop.  We post it for no reason other than our founding editor calls all Scoop readers “inbred morons” in the comments section. (read)

A Rewarding Outburst:  The campaign consultants for U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson and his Democratic Challenger Rob Miller have to be licking their chops right about now.  The two campaigns have taken in a combined $3.5 million – in less than a month – all thanks to Wilson yelling “you lie” at President Barack Obama. (read)

WORLD

Everybody Wen-Kim Tonight:  China and North Korea get their bolstered bilateral relations on. (read)

Three Hots And A Cot, For Life:  U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has decided not to seek the death penalty against Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian national and al Queda member who has been charged with the bombings of U.S. Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in 1998.  Over two hundred people were killed in those simultaneous blasts, including twelve Americans.

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