The Little Line That Could (With Addendum)

How much to you want to bet that this what Eric really wants to be driving?  From Ben Dobbin, the Associated Press:

AVON, N.Y. — After an hour of shunting rail cars aside, a 1964-vintage locomotive operated by Tim “Brown

Michael D. Shear and Ceci Connolly, Washington Post, happen upon the truth.    Albeit,  I am not sure they realize it:

President Obama’s advisers acknowledged Tuesday that they were unprepared for the intraparty rift that occurred over the fate of

Rose Friedman has passed away, from the Friedman Foundation:

Rose Director Friedman passed away Tuesday, August 18, 2009, in her home in Davis, California, of heart failure. While the exact date of her birth is uncertain, she is believed

I’ll probably get in trouble with Eric for even mentioning the name of the twit  Meghan McCain, but I am bored and feel like swatting a gnat.   Miss McCain notes in the Daily Beast:

So Michelle Malkin successfully rounds

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Cold Cash Convicted, from Paul

The Sarartest Woman in the World again displays the fact that she is an utter moron, from the Robert Burns, Associated Press:

MUMBAI, India — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton opened a three-day visit to India on

A single picture can be worth more than a NGO  produced 2:47 video.  First the video:

Hat tip video:  News Junkie

Now for the picture:

Hat tip photo:   Darleen Click, Protein Wisdom.

Suffice to say, the chicklette is part

I warned earlier today that the damage to our country from the Democrats would be downright staggering. Robert Zubrin, writing in Roll Call today, makes the point there, amply:

The United States emits about 9 billion tons of CO2

Bernie Madoff hit the jackpot at sentencing, today… getting the maximum 150 years. The Guardian:

The disgraced financier Bernie Madoff has been sentenced to the maximum 150 years in prison for masterminding a $65bn (£38bn) fraud that wrecked the

Jackson, Eric rambled quite a bit about the late Michael Jackson.   Much too much to quote.

First some perspective.   Did I tell you I hate Jonah Goldberg.  Nobody should be able to write his well at one thirty in

A common description of the one’s presser was “testy”.    Here a flavor from, Michael Scherer, Time:

Jackson was not the only reporter the President cut off. When NBC’s Chuck Todd asked for the second and third time what consequences

Aaron Task over at Yahoo’s tech Ticker makes a point I’ve made here at BitsBlog several times:

Before this discussion goes any further, Jeff Matthews of Ram Partners, wants you (and presumably policymakers) to remember this: “The epicenter of the

A follow-up of Eric’s  Ramble:

Never Mind: So now, Joe Biden is willing to admit that everyone guessed wrong on how the stimulus was going to work out. well, no, not everyone, Joe.

Just Democrats. as specifically, those associated

Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit, notes:

THEY TOLD ME THAT IF I VOTED FOR MCCAIN, the White House would be taken over by “Christianists.” And they were right! “Barack Obama invokes Jesus more than George W. Bush did.”

When you

Lee Cary over at American Thinker:

In a one sentence order, Justice Ginsburg left open the possibility that the SCOTUS may scotch the Chrysler-Fiat deal that gives 29 cents on the dollar to the Indiana Fund and other Chrysler