Nightly Ramble: Catching Up From the Holidays

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First regular ramble of the New Year, and so much going on, I don’t know as I can fir it all in… but I’ll

Regular readers will be interested to know that I’ve got a post up over at Pajamas Media on the Hillary Clinton Play for Pay thing.

I’m getting chatter just now from a few sources, including Byron York that David Ogden, Janet Reno’s s former Chief of Staff is abut to be named our next Deputy Attorney General.

(Shaking head in disbelief)

Can someone please tell

Top of the Ticket:

New Mexico Democratic Gov. Bill Richardson withdrew his name as Commerce Secretary-designate this afternoon for the new administration of President-elect Barack Obama.

With an almost audible sigh of relief barely two weeks before his inauguration

Charlie Savage in the New York Times, who apparently has suddenly found it’s investigative chops again, now that the danger of Democrats losing power in the recent election has passed….

WASHINGTON — An upstate New York developer donated $100,000 to

In doing my morning rounds this morning I notice that there’s an awful lot of traffic on Michelle’s place this morning with regards to Habitat for Humanity.  An example:

The battle has been brewing for some time. A quick Google

Over at Right Wing News, Gina Cobb  quotes a spokesman from Hamas:

“We love death as much as you love life” is an ancient Islamic boast.

And a deeply evil one.

It makes you wonder how exactly Islamists distinguish

I can’t help but wonder, in passing what the agreed upon price for the Senate seat finally was? How much money had to pass between them to get Blago to name Burris?

Before you start tuning up your defenses, saying

Good lord, Billy;

I may be speaking out of turn here, and I may be a little under informed about the depth of that conversation over there, but I’m going to sound off anyway.

I didn’t say anything over there,

Welcome one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the sphere: Bit’sBlog’s Nightly Ramble.

Still rather a slow news day, but let’s see what we can drum up, here.

• I see YetAnotherJohn has gotten himself an

And yes, if the sole purpose of your site is to sell something, (not limited to various prescription drugs at fabulously low prices, or car insurance or website hosting, or the latest brand of condoms, or the latest African bank

Apparently due to some weird filtering I had going on in my inbox, there’s been an awful lot of traffic coming in from John Hawkins over at Right Wing News, that I’ve been missing. Mostly, what I’ve been missing is

This one has been making the rounds, and I can’t let it pass without opening the editor.BBCT: Q&O and the Jawas
The picture strikes me as a demonstration of willful ignorance, for one thing. I mean, isn’t that the usual

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I’ve been saying it for years now, and this case and that Michelle speaks of today, is just one more example.;

Via RMN:

A one-time resident of this city who had been bitter over its transformation into a