Nightly Ramble:Oranges, Oil, And Snow

* Cold here in Rochester… didn’t get above 25 today, which is about correct for this time of year, but it’s the first really cold day we’ve seen this season.

* I see California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is asking for

Cuba is neither a free nor open society.   Yet Cuba is home to the left’s most adored healthcare system.   A healthcare system which seems to killing its revered leader.   If Fidel Castro is actually still alive, and dies, I

Well, behind the ice storm came the snow, which stuck to the ice.

So, trees around here now look like this one in my front yard, this morning.

The first law of holes is to stop digging.   Well it seems eighty-seven professors at Duke have failed to grasp that lesson.   Last spring a group of eighty-eight Duke professors can an adverstisement condemning the social climate at Duke.

 Well

So now, I see that the ACLU has decided to get involved in the case of about 40 Muslim individuals from Detroit who were not allowed to board a plane in Frankfurt, Germany.  The Muslims, of course, charge racial

* Last night, As I was coming out of work, I notice that the trees were still covered from the days freezing rain fall.  I was taken with the way the light played with the ice.  So… here’s a couple.

Now I don’t put too much faith the supposed Stockholm Syndrome.  Yet as Brian Masters writes, in the Daily Mail(UK) the case is simply “Beyond Reason:”

The case of Shawn Hornbeck is, so far, utterly baffling. 

Rescued

NORTH COUNTY -North County Times – U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter’s long-shot bid for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination got a boost over the weekend when he emerged on top in a straw poll of Republican precinct committeemen in Arizona’s most-populated

Mre. Pelosi promised to “drain the swamp.”  Not only has Mrs. Pelosi not drained the swamp, she is lost in it.   Rather than completing her promised one hundred hours of legislation, she is in San Francisco.  . 

So what is

Some short shots here as I shiver a bit from the cold:

* It occurs to me that Michael Devlin could run for Congress. He seems uniquely qualified. The True Crime Blog has some additions to that case, by the

(H/T photo:  Fox News )

[cue the Addams’ Family theme]

Ok the  photo a mug shot and mug shots look creepy.  This just plain looks creepy.   Non custodial kidnapping for companionship are rare but inherently strange stories.  Recall the

Where is the apology from Sen. Barbara Boxer to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice? Tony Snow called the senator’s question to Rice a “great leap backward for feminism.” And Tony nailed it. Feminists like Barbara Boxer want it both ways.

(H/T photo:  BBC ) 

One of the conclusions of the Iraq Study Group(ISG) or the Baker-Hamilton Report is that we could achieve stability in Iraq by negotiating with our enemies like Syria and Iran.   The Telegraph (UK) exposes Baker-Hamilton as

FEDERAL WAY -The Olympian- The school board in this suburb south of Seattle has restricted showings of Al Gore’s movie on global warming, including requiring that it be balanced with an adequate opposing viewpoint.

The board also required Superintendent Tom

Word about a new Book by Tom DeLay keeps showing up in my searches on various matters. IN the mail this morning, comes word that he’s due for a book release on March the 20th.  Apparently, they’re holding it under