The Wednesday Night Catch- All Ramble

Just got back from a trip to the rail line.  Matt, my older boy wanted to try his hand at some Night photos.  Still plenty warm, around here, probably the last warm night of the year, and I wanted to

Captain Ed….

Newt Gingrich has tried to position himself as the premiere conservative candidate for the 2008 Republican presidential primaries, a mission made easier by the list of front-runners already in the race. However, he may have taken a stumble

Not sure where I got this one from, but it struck me as funny, this morning.

WASHINGTON — Fox- American paper money represents an unfair impediment to the blind, and the Treasury Department must come up with new U.S. currency to help the visually impaired use cash, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

U.S. District Judge James

Playing with the layout of the blog tonight. I’m having a little difficulty with the right side bar, attempting to fit the elements from the old blog into the new one.  The turns out that the bit more of a

(H/T Photo:  University Wisconson – Law School

It never fails to amuse my vocabulary challenged male brain these purported scientific studies that show that men and women are different. Gee, I always thought the purpose of Science was to reveal

I’ve held my peace about this Atlanta case, because there was something about it that simply did not add up.  Some information at some point was going to start leaping out at us… information that most critics would ignore. 

So, I wander over to enemy territory, (know your enemy, and all that) and am faced with:

I have no use for Jim Wallis and I begin to wonder if he really has the interests of Democrats and progressives at

Glenn’s right, here.

Hastings is a particularly bad choice.  Indeed, he’s one of the reasons why I was never too worried about who the republicans chose for their leaders; you just knew the democrats were going to do something worse. 

From today’s USA Today print edition, I have selected a few telling quotes from an article on 7A, ‘Returning rookies reflect on lessons learned’.

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL)

Stock up on toilet paper, because you’re not going to have

It’s warm around these parts.  Unusually so. 

Usually, by this time of the year, I’ve already gone through the ritual of shoveling the driveway twice.  Sometimes, three times if I’m being obsessive about it.  This year… nary a snow throw.

Did you happen to see the full page ad in the New York Times bought by Yoko Ono? It ran the Sunday edition. She’s urging readers to accept responsibility for all of the violence and the suffering that’s going on

Very true, Billy , it does only go 250 miles per charge… or less….  And, as you say, it then needs three or four hours to recharge on a good day. 

What you fail to reckon with, however, is that’s

The Supreme Court sent a clear message to Judith Miller and the New York Times, to wit the minions of Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. are not above the law.

WASHINGTON -(AP)- The Supreme Court ruled against The New

Via USAToday

MEDICARE SPENDING SEES FIRST DECLINE

Medicaid spending has declined unexpectedly this year, the first drop since the health program for the poor was created in 1965.

The historic reversal will free up billions of dollars in state budgets.