Nightly Ramble:Snow,Green,Capitalism for the Poor, Spain, Always Darkest Before the Lawn,Iraq Tourism, Japan And More

• Got a few inches of snow up here yesterday, mostly lake effect stuff in the afternoon. Just enough to drive the birds crazy.they went through three lbs of seed in about a half hour. Yes, Virginia, that means a lot

Scott over at Powerline passes along the eulogy given by the Commander of my old unit 3/2 U.S. Cavalry (I was a Scout/Bradley driver in K Troop 3/2 ACR from 1988-1990 in Germany; back then we were an armored cavalry

Word on the street is that the slugs at the Westboro Baptist Church from Topeka are planning to picket the Heath Ledger funeral.

Look, you morons, I understand full well what your positions on Homosexuality are.  I also know that

Anyone remember John Edwards?

I know… not lately.

He’s not going to the White House, unless they need an elevator operator.  By my read, he’s playing for some sort of appointment to a post in a Democrat White House. Notice…

Byran, Hot Air, points out that Mike Huckabee had an interesting point about rebuilding I-95 rather than sending out individual rebate checks:

Mike Huckabee makes some sense on the economic stimulus. He says, essentially, if we’re going to borrow

I note with interest that Jonathan Martin has put up a post at Politico making note of the fact that the global warming business has all but disappeared from John McCain’s speechmaking. Apparently McCain has finally figured out it’s not

In this case, the shock is not what is being said about B.J. Clinton, but rather who is saying it:

I write this more out of sadness than anger. Bill Clinton’s ill-tempered and ill-founded attacks on Barack Obama are doing

• Yikes! How long did THIS take to set up? Clearly some engineering genius has far too much time on their hands. Rube had nothing on these folks.
• The WSJ is saying that Obama is just now figuring out that the

The Clintons play dirty when they feel threatened. But we knew that, didn’t we?
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The problem is not Hillary Clinton per se or the sharp exchanges and personal accusations that squeamish political reporters deplore. That’s what politics is always

By way of OTB, I see that the Louisiana primary went down about as expected; Ron Paul beat Romney, but both of them lost to Fred Thompson. That a couple of comparatively liberal northeastern pols wouldn’t do well down

I’d go longer, but I don’t know what to make of it.   On Memeorandum, you have stories of the open race war between the Clintons and Barack Obama.  Meanwhile, a few leftsided bloggers are upset because a republican operative

• I note by way of LGF that Hubble’s getting an overhaul.
• Jawa Report trying the Podcast thing? It appears so.
• Michelle points up where Duncan Hunter has endorsed Huckabee.  I dunno as that’s really much of a shock, that Hunter

Good move, or bad move, Barack Obama knows where to attack the Clinton’s in the massive, and over inflated, egos.   B.J. Clinton is riled over Obama’s Reagan comments, Ezra Klein, American Prospect:

Bill Clinton’s take on this was that

The AP reports, and the New York Times expands, on a new study by a supposedly “independent” organization that claims to have assembled hundred of “false statements” by the Bush administration in the course of the Iraq war. However,

I noted this story last niht but couldn’t get out of bed to comment on it. Never fear; Michelle did it.

Better late than never, Michigan has put an end to driver’s licenses to illegal aliens. It’s a violation of