Nightly Ramble: COLDER

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(Editor’s note: Due to a screwup on my part, this post went up before it was suppsoed to.)

We started off a little

This would be laughable, were it not so very tragic. Ben Smith:

The president-elect tonight is having dinner with some ideological adversaries: four of the most widely-read conservative columnists.

He’s dining at the Chevy Chase home of Washington Post columnist

WASHINGTON -(AP)- (Timothy Geithner)… President-elect Barack Obama‘s choice to run the Treasury Department and lead the nation’s economic rescue disclosed publicly Tuesday that he failed to pay $34,000 in taxes from 2001 to 2004, a last-minute complication that

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More of that global warming stuff, today. Several inches of it, I hear… and the first batch is already falling. The

Shannon Love over at Chicago Boyz:

California has followed the grim path of the Great Lakes states.

 

As I wrote before, those states where once the industrial dynamo for the entire Earth, yet they destroyed that enormous economic dominance

You will have seen, by now, my piece on Hillary Clinton and political payoffs here on BitsBlog and On Pajamas Media. Apparently it’s a still developing story, with new players being added all the time. this morning, comes  The

Congrats and a pat on the mack to Scott Fybush at NorthEast Radio Watch, who passed the 15 year mark for his website yesterday. 

If you’re anywhere in the Northeast and want to keep up on all that’s happening

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Another Monday. (Shrug). Let’s go…

• Oil’s down below $39 /BBL as of this morning;  It may be lower now, I’ve not looked in

Near the end of Q&O’s weekly podcast this week, Dale makes the point that FDR was able to get us out of the depression only by means of turning the entire country, essentially, over to war production.

He’s quite

I’ve been telling you all along that Obama will govern from the extreme left. Another example comes from the Washington Post, this morning:

Until last week, Carol M. Browner, President-elect Barack Obama’s pick as global warming czar, was listed

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To All My Valued Employees,

There have been some rumblings around the office about the future of this company, and more specifically, your job. As you know, the economy has changed for the worse

Anyone who is naive enough claim that Iran is not at the opposite end of the Palestinian puppet strings (Are you listening, Alex?) ought to check this article out in the Jerusalem Post this morning.

Iran is exerting heavy

A funny post happened over at the Opinion Forum:

Imagine reading this headline: “German People Vote Adolf Hitler Third Most Popular German Historical Figure.”

Can you really imagine that? The international condemnation against such an act would be immediate,

Sigh…..

“Then win it back, or do you think that the other side is forever?

{cold stare} It’s close enough, mate, for the purposes of my life, which is all that I’ve ever been interested in.

Perhaps, Billy, that’s

It’s occurs to me in looking around this morning at the news and commentary that Send to be Ex-Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich would’ve made an ideal candidate to run Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac.

It also occurs to me, that