It’s 68 All Over Again… Again.

It’s amusing to watch this little trainwreck, and some of the comments on it, such as at TalkLeft:

This is the supposed Michigan compromise.

The state party’s executive committee voted today to ask the national party’s Rules and Bylaws

• We now hear chatter again about Hillary being offered the VP slot on Obama’s ticket. Not a shock to hear it, I suppose but it still strikes me that Obama would have to be suicidal to make such an offer. 

The Tennessee Plowboy is gone.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. —AP-    Eddy Arnold, whose mellow baritone on songs like “Make the World Go Away” made him one of the most successful country singers in history, died Thursday morning, days short of his

Well, almost.

The AP is )( this close to openly questioning if the vote in Indiana was tainted… not by Rush Limbaugh’s Operation Chaos, but by Obama supporters.

GARY, Ind. (AP) —It was midnight and the nation was still

• How does one prepare for the unexpected, which is by definition, unpredictable? Apparently, you don’t. Chuck Simmins makes mention of a WMD course that was less than successful. Sounds rather like a problem with the teacher, to me, but then

Britt Hume last night:

And an artist in Portland, Oregon has stuck a 23-foot needle into the ground by the Willamette River and hopes to plant more. Adam Kuby says it’s a really large version of acupuncture. Kuby says he

(On a Jeep that’s been set up for rock crawling… mounted upside-down:)

If You Can Read This, blame my spotter

Gerson at the WaPo:

There are few things in American politics more irrationally ideological, more fanatically faith-based, than the accusation that Republicans are conducting a “war on science.”

According to Hillary Clinton, the Bush administration has declared “open season on

NEW YORK —(AP via Fox)- A sadistic gang of police impersonators abducted and tortured scores of East Coast cocaine traffickers, forcing them to hand over multimillion-dollar stashes by threatening to squeeze their testicles with pliers, authorities said Tuesday.An indictment unsealed

Armbinder last night says it pretty well:

Forget the horse race numbers for a moment: if the surveys are accurate, the polarization within the Democratic Party has reached critical levels. Nearly six in ten Obama supporters in Indiana say they

• Yes, dear reader, I know I often write the Rambles so you MUST click on the links to see what the subject is. That’s the idea. That said, let’s get to it.
• Not often in the last cycle did we

Guns don’t kill people… small cars do.

Let’s break this down:

1. Had Bill Clinton not vetoed ANWR drilling back in 1995, our supply of available crude would be at least 20% higher than it is today.
2. That is one of several examples of our being prevented from

A while ago, and once again, earlier today, I pointed out a salient fact that nobody seems to notice:

According to CNN Money, Exxon total “profits” if you don’t count exploration costs, were $40BUSD, in 2007. Their taxes, however,

Some of you may have noted elements of the blog that were missing around 7pm to 730pm eastern tonight.

I had a software update blow up on me, and I had to revert to tape. We never went down outright,