Nightly Ramble:I’m Number Two!; FCC;Peak Oil And the End of the World; More

• A second place at OTB’s Caption Contest.  Guess Obama’s an easy target. At least Leno will have some fun if Obama wins.
• So they tossed out Jackson’s fine for her ummm… “Wardrobe Malfunction’?  First, this does show, as everything else

Remember that New Yorker cover of Obama that caused so much fuss last week? Seems people are finally starting to read the actual story we (but darned few others) linked… and look what we find inside… Just after the 9/11

(CNN) — The New York Times has rejected an op-ed piece written by John McCain defending his Iraq war policy in response to a piece by Barack Obama published in the paper last week.

You guys have all hear this

• Davidremarked the other day on the tax hike on fuel being proposed by the Democrats. I think his headline to be crucial to understanding this thing. Imagine with me, if you will, what would happen to the Democxrats and

The Wall Street Journal is saying:

Now that Starbucks Corp. has disclosed the 600 locations it wants to shutter, a phenomenon is taking hold: the Save Our Starbucks campaign.

In towns as small as Bloomfield, N.M., and metropolises as large

Oil futures went slightly above $130/BBL early today apparently on Iran fears, and on US weather concerns in the Gulf of Mexico. 

These, however, seem temporary concerns. and certainly not the kind of speculation driving spikes we’ve seen in recent

It’s immensely amusing;

The last several years we have had long lines of leftists denounce saying the Middle East politics of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”. This argument, apparently, is supposed to suggest that our involvement in

(CNN) — A German magazine quoted Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki as saying that he backed a proposal by presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq within 16 months.

“U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama

As I told you would happen, the WordPress folks released version 2.6.

This actually happened a few days ago.

I’ve got it up and running, and it looks fine so far.

I must say the guy  doing the ayuo-upgrade software

Over at OTB, James notes a pattern I started taking note of last night:

The Outrage of the Day comes to us from Josh Marshall, a pretty even keeled fellow.   John McCain said this to reporters.

“I believe that

• CW holds that when the economy is down, movie houses don’t do well. So why’d we have the biggest weekend ever at the movies last weekend? Something isn’t quite up to what the Democrats and their MSM minions are advertising.

Hume:

On his upcoming overseas trip, Barack Obama will be met along the way by the anchors of the three network evening newscasts. About 200 other journalists have also asked to join Obama during his trip.

But Howard Kurtz of

Interesting. When you’re a total failure as house speaker, what do you do? You call the President a total failure. CNN:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called President Bush “a total failure” on Thursday, among the California Democrat’s harshest assessments

• Oil is down again… third straight day this has happened…. another $4  That’s about $15/bbl… on the hope that Congress will get out of the way of drilling. And remember, gang, I told you this would start happening about midsummer.

Glenn Reynods and Brannon Denning, on Heller

The Supreme Court has released its long-awaited opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller,[1] and the buzz has been considerable. Though much has been made of the majority’s historic ruling and of