Late for the Party

Reynolds this morning, makes note of a story in the Examiner, which reports, basicly, that were it not for humans and their greenhouse gasses, the earth would have been in another ice age.

That’s amusing an idea enough. I’m

Newsday is reporting what is the costliest day in terms of life lost for the NYFD, since the 9/11 attacks…. three firefighters were killed, and four more on the critical list.

We speak a lot of those serving in the

DETROIT (AP) – With his city teetering above a financial abyss, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick went before television viewers this month and delivered some grave news: He had no choice but to lay off nearly 700 city workers and cut services.

Mona Charen apparently agrees with my take on President Bush’s speech on Thursday.:

Impossibly grandiose? Impractical? Wilsonian? Perhaps. And yet, the president made clear in a speech that was also an argument that his is no ivory-tower idealism. “America’s vital

TBTN reports that former Late Night TalkShow host Johnny Carson died this morning, at age 79.

The Globe and Mail says:

Durham Regional Police are refusing to say much about a 31-year-old Pickering woman who alleges that well-known entertainer Bill Cosby sexually assaulted her at his home near Philadelphia almost one year ago.

At a press

I finally got the background graphics working, though I need to touch up the 1200 pxl screens. At the moment everything at 1024 and below is where it wants to be.

Since I’ve added the title on the side, I

James at Outside The Beltway was at the Inauguration.  Took pictures, too.

I note this morning that this blog has managed to gather quite a bit of steam in the reletive rankings of late, in the TTLB Ecosystem.  We’re now up around 800 slots from where we were just a few weeks

My thoughts and reactions about President Bush’s Inauguration speech never really came into focus until such time as I read Peg Noonan’s column of today. This is as rare a happening as I think you’ll find, but I think Peg

It’s cold.
Cold enough that it’s some 25 degrees warmer inside my freezer. Cold enough that in a drive to work, my van heater doesn’t come on until I’m almost there. Cold enough that road salt, so much the staple

Uh-oh… looks like Mr. Peanut is linked to the oil for food scandal.

Says WorldNetDaily:

Former President Jimmy Carter has been linked with a key figure in the U.N.’s oil-for-food scandal by the group leading the nationwide effort to evict

John Hawkins and Right Wing News has taken a vote of a pile of bloggers asking the question who would be the most desireable candidates for the Republican nomination of 2008.

Yes, I was asked to participate. Thanks, John for

John Hawkins and Right Wing News has taken a vote of a pile of bloggers asking the question who would be the most desireable candidates for the Republican nomination of 2008.

Yes, I was asked to participate. Thanks, John for