If it wasn’t for coffee, I’d have no discernible personality at all. ~ David Letterman

It looks as if you are all sleeping in this Saturday morning. How can I complete the first cup if you won’t wake up and provide the typical great posts that I, and bR&E readers, look for.

In other words, more later.

Dr. Sanity (Dr. Pat Santy) PURE, UNADULTERATED… MATURITY — “Meanwhile, the REAL grown-ups continue to make the sacrifices on the battlefield; the REAL grown-ups ignore the blatherings of the no-nothing press; the cut-and-run Democrats; and the we-hate-America left; the REAL grown-ups manage to put aside the partisanship and need to make short-term points; and do what needs to be done for the long-term good of this country.”

Don Surber Superman syndrome — “June 23, 2006, was an ugly day for American print journalism. It showed a once proud industry in its last throes burning years of hard-won credibility just to make a president look bad. As a guy who has 30 years in newspapering, I wonder if these Supermen on the two coasts have not run into some red kryptonite that left them temporarily insane.”

Captain’s Quarters (Ed Morrissey) The Washington Post Doesn’t See The Problem, Either — “No one elected Bill Keller to make those kind of decisions for our national security. The White House asked him to spike this story and explained to him why, and he chose to put us all at risk anyway, and as the Post notes, for no purpose other than to sell a few more papers. The Department of Justice needs to find out who leaked this information to Lichtblau and Risen, and at the same time hold Keller and the Times responsible for revealing classified information illegally. Until the Attorney General starts making Keller and his ilk responsible for their attacks on national security, no classified material will remain safe from exposure.”

GOP Bloggers (Mark Noonan) Howard Dean’s Strange Gamble — “Howard Dean is one of those who are convinced that the reasons the Democrats don’t win is because they don’t push a sufficiently left wing program. In this thinking, the American people are all ready for leftist governance, but until someone steps up to the plate and really offers it to them, they won’t vote for it.”

Wizbang (Jay Tea) To the liberals, every silver lining is wrapped around the dark cloud of “racism” — “Sometimes, when I’m not sure of where I ought to stand on an issue, I take a good look at who’s lined up for it — and sometimes, more importantly, who’s against it. I’ve found that if I take whatever side the ACLU is not on, I’ve got a better-than-even chance of being correct. And this is one more piece of evidence of how good a policy that is.”