Nightly Ramble: Slippage, Storms,Gore? More

• Headlines read: “Two charged with giving Amy Winehouse Drugs” Only two? She must be slipping.
• Sad to see this report of at least 4 dying at the Boy Scout camp last night, on two fronts; The people who were there,

The SCOTUS blog:

In a stunning blow to the Bush Administration in its war-on-terrorism policies, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign nationals held at Guantanamo Bay have a right to pursue habeas challenges to their detention. The Court,

I’m to the point where I can draw no other conclusion than our government isn’t interested in solving the problem of high gasoline prices. The evidence for this goes back well prior to the current wave of price hikes, and

Trying to play Mister Apolitical is taking it’s toll. The WaPo:

Today’s news that Jim Johnson, one of three people charged with vetting potential vice presidential candidates for Barack Obama, is stepping down from his role illustrates the perils ahead

• Sure, I get the picture, Billy. But consider that what you’re suggesting that we do is abdicate the voting process to these morons outright. That’s supposed to help?
• Speaking of voter ignorance, Boortz touches on this today, too.
• Ron

Bluto is working a story that I admit only loosely following. It doesn’t quote cleanly, so I’ll have you go read the thing.

The update gives a nifty tease:

The New York Sun’s editorial board notes that Rockefeller deliberately manipulated

There was an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal the other day, and it made some good points.  Ultimately, it suggested (as many others have) that 6 years after the debate to invade Iraq began, it’s more important to

I think you can pretty much figure in that there is going to be an awful lot of discussion between now and November as regards government run health care and the benefits thereof. I did notice today that there was

Odd, to find a question like this on one of the more meaningful blogs around;

Can I Be a Meaningful Blogger?

Yet, that’s the very question James Q Wilson at Volokh Conspiracy posts.  And it’s posing adds to an argument

I see See-Dubya is watching the endorsement list. Maybe I ought to as well, if they’re mostly as amusing as this:

Dan Boren from Oklahoma’s second district-“Little Dixie”-seems more than a bit agnostic about the Obamessiah, whom he dubs the

• I complained last night that Memeorandum had been pretty much ignoring BitsBlog. Apparently, someone there is reading, and they reacted. The post complaining about being ignored, got featured status. Gottena  few links through since then, a well. Nice to

A great article in the Weekly Standard, today, by Thomas Joscelyn that should put to rest all the naysaysers about how involved Saddam was in terror. He lists several points of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s so called “phase two report”

AJ Strata has been watching with some interest the demise of al-Qaeda.  Today, he remarks:

It is alarming even to me how drastically al-Qaeda’s future as changed recently.  After 9-11 they were the future hope of Islam after they

I’ve posted this before, but I think it bears revisiting… here’s how to raise fuel prices should you want to do it…

* Create shortages in the oil markets by ensuring domestic oil supplies can never be used. This will

Dennis Kucinich, as we have said here many times, is one of the very few people on the planet who can make Ron Paul look sane. We have yet another example of that. Raw Story:

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