Holder Voids Case Against Ted Stevens. But Why?

James Joyner at OTB, this morning brings news abot the latest action of Eric Holder’s Justice Dept:

Attorney General Eric Holder has dropped the case against Ted Stevens, NPR’s Nina Totenberg reports.

A jury convicted Stevens last fall of seven

I tend to let Eric to the long and intense. This morning, I make an exception.

 Bit rambled:

The other shoe: I made mention in a Ramble last August of Jay Mariotti leaving his job in the traditional press.

“You don’t want a messianic apocalyptic cult controlling atomic bombs. When the wide-eyed believer gets hold of the reins of power and the weapons of mass death, then the entire world should start worrying, and that is what is happening

I’d like you to look closely at S277.

What we have here, is a bill mandating that you ‘volunteer’.

First off, the idea of mandatory national service is a direct violation of the 13th amendment. I find it interesting

Yeah, I know.. an earthquake in California is about as newsworthy as sun in Arizona. Still it’s fairly sizable, around 4.3 Richter, and about 4 miles deep, about 25 miles away from San Jose. Details are here.

Now, obviously, this ad is sheer nonsense. But now, given the site they’re pushing has already pulled a million hits, we perhaps have some idea of how it is we have Obama as President:

“There’s a sucker born every minute”

Now this is why Kate, Small Dead Animlas, is my favorite north of the border blogger.   Sorry Kathy.

An interesting, and mostly unsurprising report from the New York Times this morning.  Indeed, the only thing surprising about it is that it comes from the New York Times. Here’s some of it:

SAN FRANCISCO — It sounds like such

James Joyner, this morning:

President Obama says he’ll help GM and Chrysler but they’ll have to agree to some “pretty drastic changes.”

“We will provide them some help,” Obama said. “I know that it is not popular to provide help

Look, I know this has long since become a matter of repeating earlier comments and replacing the names, dates and positions not being filled, but another of he president’s appointees… this time the number two slot at the EPA   (Yeah,

This morning, in my new Pajamas Media piece, I examine the spendng tactics of Brack Obama and the Democrats.

The entire country has been, until recently, frozen in amazement by the tactics used by the administration to ostensibly address

Look, let’s face it; if the teleprompter actually had anything major to give us, he’d have been leaking it for the last week and a half now. The precedes that we saw, the White House at around 1800 eastern told

Ever wonder what happened to that plane they pulled out of the Hudson river a few scant weeks ago? So did I.
I happend to run across some photos of the thing being towed down the 150 block of Park

Last Friday was Nowr?z, in Iran. President Obama in recognition of the day sent along a televised message to the Iranians .  It is something of a tradition amongst American presidents to do precisely that.

The tone however was

By way of Bruce McQuain, who you will recall, I was a little harsh with last week on the AIG thing, comes this news:

The other shoe concerning the AIG “bonuses” and the administration’s knowledge of them is beginning