Nightly Ramble: Nork Starving Itself;Carville’s Brain has been Starved for Years, Your Mama Don’t Dance (Outside) The Misuse of Lincoln, And More

Lots of stuff going on over the weekend, not a bit of it earthshaking, or unexpected.

• Like McQ at Q&O, I find myself watching closely thetrainwreck that is NORK.  You had to know this kind of thing was coming,

The New York Times is finally catching on to what we mere mortals already know just on the look of the thing:

Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer was deeply involved in his administration’s efforts last year to discredit the State Senate

Yet another Democrat comes into criminal charges. 950/WWJ:

Criminal charges were filed today against Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his former Chief of Staff Christine Beatty in connection with the “text message scandal” that has enveloped the Mayor’s office.

With a tip of the ballcap to Ben Smith:

OBAMA: I will be honest with you that I didn’t have that many conversations with him over the last year just because I have been so busy. I haven’t been going

Conservative Reader:

It’s time to say goodbye to unions. Their time has come and gone. The real original value of unions have long since been replaced by state and federal laws that drive a significant amount of basic workers rights,

Back in the day, we used to blog a bit about Bill Richardson.  He was one of more favorite ‘rats.  In those heady days, his campaign used to link us a bit.  I don’t know if Richardson ever read the

Bob Lonsberry, today:

Like a fool, I went back and forth for most of three minutes, from the apple bin to the scale and to the apple bin again. I had two dollars and I wanted two apples and

Paul Berman in today’s New York Times admits he’s under-estimated Radical Islam… which of course is as we’ve pointed out here before, not quite the case.

…each new calamity for Iraq has, like manure, lent new fertility to the various

Robert Pear in the New York Times:

WASHINGTON – New government research has found “large and growing” disparities in life expectancy for richer and poorer Americans, paralleling the growth of income inequality in the last two decades.

So what!

Read this story, and know what you’re reading is about bravery that cannot be ignored. Amazing, what these people do for each other.

More amazing that they do it for you and I.

Project Hero, is a worthy attempt on

“People will know you by the company you keep,” 

Kyle-Anne Shiver’s grandmother, American Thinker. 

James Carville, as attributed by  Adam Nagourney and Jeff Zeleny, New York Times:

“Mr. Richardson’s endorsement came right around the anniversary of the day

Well if you look at what Dave In Texas, Ace of Spades Hq, is reporting, both the Obama and Clinton camps are acting consistent with the belief that they are:

Scandal!!

The Obama campaign can’t shut up about it.

Steven Taylor this morning on what he calls the Perils of the IPhone:

“It’s turned me from a really annoying know-it-all into an incredibly annoying know-it-all, with the Internet to back me up,” said Sadum, a technology writer in Denver.

— and the whore you rode in on, WHEC-TV:

I-Team 10 has learned a Rochester woman plans to sue Monroe County after last month’s chain-reaction pile-up on Interstate 390.

The woman suffered a broken hip, fractured knee and

• Billy, I have to tell you, I’m not convinced we were weakened to the point of not being able to deal with the Soviets out of hand. I think it far more likely we hadn’t the will, because after so