Nightly Ramble: Blogging, Misidentifications And Their Purposes,Greenwald, the Victimhood of KSM,Hugo, TV And More.

• James Joyner notes the passage of another milestone… 24 million. He’s up to a million hits per month, now. I suppose this to be a good bench test for WordPress. Congrats from here, James.
• With the new job, my posting

Blue Crab Blvd is running a link to Evan Thomas, this morning, who in Gauius’ words:

….describes the complicated relationship between the media and the Clintons. In fact, the relationship between the press and any president or presidential candidate. Thomas

Peter Baker in the WaPo this morning:

As he gets closer to the Republican nomination, Sen. John McCain has been trying to balance his unqualified support for the Iraq war by reminding audiences that he was also a tough critic

• Congrats to the Confederate Yankee Bob Owens, and his wife Christine on the birth of a daughter on Thursday. By the way, guys… after some serious research, we now know what causes things like this: Beer.
• A nice Valentine’s

James Joyner:

Between RealClearPolitics and Memeorandum, there must be a dozen articles this morning wondering if Barack Obama’s nomination is now a foregone conclusion, how Hillary Clinton managed to blow what seemed a sure thing, and how long Obama

• So, now we see that Mike Huckabee has been eliminated from the race, numerically. The result of the Patomic Runoffs is exactly that; Huckabee has no chance.  Byron York wrote about this yesterday at NRO:
  

  The time is coming

Joyner has started to note what I predicted…

When I saw the headline “McCain Adviser Won’t Fight Obama,” I surmised that a challenge to duel was being declined. The real story is actually even more bizarre.

A top adviser

After action report, Rochester, NY:  WHEC-TV

“An extraordinary situation” and “something we’ve never seen before” – those just some of the comments from first responders to Sunday’s deadly 36-car pile-up on 390 near the airport.
 

Ladies and gentlemen:  well done.

The United States Senate is working again, against the interests of the American people.

By a vote of 51 to 45, the Senate, while passing the authorization for intel gathering, added section 327 to the bill. Of course, 327 is

• So what happens if/when Barrack Obama gets into office? Are we going to see the race hucksters coming out of the oval office woodwork every time someone questions an action by Obama, and charging racism? Will we in fact see

Jerome Corsi at WND:

As Sen. John McCain assumes the GOP front-runner mantle, his long-standing, but little-noticed association with left-wing donors such as George Soros and Teresa Heinz Kerry is receiving new attention among his Republican critics.

In 2001, McCain

• If anyone doubts there’s a rebellion within the Republican party against the Rockefeller Republicans, you’ll want to read this. Note the date on it, also. This rebellion has been coming for some time, now, people… it didn’t start with McCain…

John Hawkins, over at Right Wing News, looks at the list of possible VP’s that McCain is likely to chose from. Some interesting choices.  It’s my view that who he picks, in the end will matter only as

Fox News Channel’s Jamie Colby has a new report up talking about the big showdown in Berkeley, CA tonight – TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12TH – when patriots from around the nation will hold an all-day pro-troop demonstration and protest against the

• John Hawkins points out MSNBC‘s David Shuster isn’t alone.
  

  We all know by now about the controversy surrounding MSNBC’s David Shuster and his allegation that Chelsea Clinton was being “pimped” by her family in order to drum up support