Da Junior Senator From Minnesota.

To note the seating of the junior senator from Minnesota, I am holding a contest to suggest the most appropriate term of address of our newed senator and the most appropriate photo.

To  be blunt, I see no reason to

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This is the Commuter train Edition.

• Coleman Conceeds:

I warned earlier today that the damage to our country from the Democrats would be downright staggering. Robert Zubrin, writing in Roll Call today, makes the point there, amply:

The United States emits about 9 billion tons of CO2

John Hawkins has posted the The Rightosphere Temperature Check For June.

Interesting results.   Participating blogs:

The Absurd Report, All American Blogger, All That Is Necessary, The American Princess, And Rightly So, Argghhhh!, Axis

As goes Energy, so goes the country.

“The worse, the better,” Vladimir Lenin is said to have observed. What Lenin meant was that the worse social conditions became in Russia, the more likely he and the Bolsheviks could foment a

This war is lost.   We need an exit strategy:

DETROIT (AP) — Gunmen in a green minivan opened fire on a group of teenagers waiting at a bus stop near a Detroit school on Tuesday, wounding at least

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This is the Grocery Store edition.

• Franken: About an hour ago came word that Al Franken was decalred the winner of

The President has demanded a raising of CAFE standards by some 30%.  The only way to get to this level is make cars and trucks smaller and lighter. Problem is, it also makes cars and trucks less crashworthy.

 Some 2000

Yet it is still the fact that the overwhelming majority of young women, imagining their futures, do not dream of reaching midlife as barren spinsters.

Robert Stacy McCain, Other McCain.    The missus seems to have starched Stacy’s drawers.   But

How would we have reacted if TMZ had been wrong about Michael Jackson’s death?

That’s the question of the moment at the LA TIMES.

In answer, it would likely be a lot louder than if the Times had screwed that

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This is the “”With fowa you get Eggwoll” Edition. Let is repair to the table and chair and this fine establishment’s board of

Eric already blogged on Ricci, but Ace  brings up an amusing point.    While the decision was five to four, along coservative liberal lines, the count was actually nine to zero against the Wise Latina, Sonia Sotomayor, via Ace:

Wise

Bernie Madoff hit the jackpot at sentencing, today… getting the maximum 150 years. The Guardian:

The disgraced financier Bernie Madoff has been sentenced to the maximum 150 years in prison for masterminding a $65bn (£38bn) fraud that wrecked the

The democratic portions of the goverment of Honduras have acted to preserve their constitution and oust a wanna be dictatator for life, Mel Zelaya.    So which side does President Barack Obama’s Secretaray of State take?   The same side as Hugo

The Washington Post website is reporting:

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has ruled that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as