Hail, Hail, The Hail’s All Here…

Well, actually, not hail, just sleet and ice, and perhaps some snow and wind behind it.

Which means, possibly, I’ll be possibly losing both my  internet connection, and my power, later today. David, maybe, too, though he’s on the other

• Look at it this way, Dale; The Berkeley City Council serves Humanity as a bad example, if nothing else. And FWIW, I’m with you on cutting off their funding by the same token that they’re acting, here. Thing is

As I was growing up, one of the lessons I learned from my folks was that if you don’t lie, you do’t have to worry about who you told what, later. That lesson seems to apply well to John McCain.

James Joyner:

Ben Smith and David Paul Kuhn argue that poor showing in this campaign “seems also to mark the beginning of the end of a period in Republican politics that began on Sept. 11, 2001.”

“There’s a paradox for

• McQ puts up a few telling comments about Identity politics, in the context of the ever increasingly irrelevant “National Origination for (Leftist) Women. Not much of a shock that we both draw the same conclusion about NOW in particular… but

Five minutes after my last post, we lost power. Just now came back. A weird day. Snowing sideways, at the moment. I noted footage of the snow and blow act out in Des Moines yesterday. It’s here, today. Re-starting my

And no, I’m not talking about Monica Lewinski, though I may get to that today.

No, I’m talking about the high wind conditions we were supposed to get yesterday… they didn’t develop until this morning, and when they did they

John Hawkins deals with a reader’s question about why the ‘sphere hasn’t been more effective in this campaign:

First of all, it is correct to say that the blogosphere’s two favorite candidates have been Duncan Hunter and Fred Thompson, both

Campaign Spot:

The first wave of exit poll numbers, including absentees: McCain 34.3 percent, Romney 32.6 percent, Giuliani 15.3 percent, Huckabee 12 percent.

Which pretty much writes the end of Rudy’s story, as we discussed here several times in the

• Another Honorable Mention in the OTB Caption Contest.
• The State of the Union was about as expected… as we discussed today….with Bush stating the truth, by and large and the Democrats with their fingers in their ears.
• I find it

Why is it David Brooks considers Regan’s legacy needlessly narrow, and a myth, while Kennedy has a ‘mystique’?

A thought occurred to me as I was driving home froma  family event last evening… Is Bill Clinton really to blame for Hillary’s troubles in getting through the nomination process? Or are the Clintonistas offering him up as a target

• I see where Romney and McCain are trading insults, both saying to one another, that they’re liberal. Of course, long term readers of this blog will understand something many other have not yet… they’re both correct.
• I hear there’s

So says MSNBC, this morning. 

At some point, we’re going to accept what I’ve been saying for years; The unions are killing America.

Kaus:

1) McCain seems to have conned a lot of Republicans into thinking he’s transformed his position on immigration–for example, Victor Davis Hanson, author of “Mexifornia,” who now writes about “McCain’s won’t-make-that-mistake-again changed views on closing the border.” This even