Nightly Ramble:Various Democrat Appointments;Wildfire Rebuilds;Prop 8 to Cal SC; More

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• With all the Democrats in

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Snow on the ground, today… first of the season.  Just what I needed to brighten my spirits. Not…

• I know David has

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• I shouldn’t have to tell you the amount of heat I’m taking for my stand on Unions. Boortz, today touches on this, too…

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Hope your weekend was a good one. We’ve got lots of ground to cover, so let’s get to this.

• Barack Hussein Obama and George

As longtime readers will know well, I have never been impressed with Paul Krugman, except in the extreme negative. As an example a comment from a few months ago:

I‘ll open this by saying that by rights, and in

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• Leaving aside the issue of the Republicans who bolted off the bailout plan yesterday, changing their vote from ‘yes’ to ‘no’, (I’ll get back to

The Charlie Rangel thing I mentioned yesterday is getting hotter.

Glenn mentions it this afternoon.

 if I were the GOP I’d put together an ad featuring Biden’s credit-card connections, Dodd’s sweetheart mortgage scandal, and Rangel’s ongoing problems and run it

I’ll open this by saying that by rights, and in a sane world, Paul Krugman should be hammered flat on economics, and drummed from his perch at the New York Times. However, let’s admit this isn’t a sane world, and 

• The Pew polling says Obama and McCain are tied.
• Speaking of Obama one usually gets judged by those they hang around with. McQ points out today that Obama’s list of advisers is… well…
• The New York Times is reporting that

Interesting report from the New York Times:

TBILISI, Georgia — It was nearly 2 a.m. on Wednesday when President Nicolas Sarkozy of France announced he had accomplished what seemed virtually impossible: Persuading the leaders of Georgia and Russia to agree

I am angry.

I have begin to think that Howard Kurtz is the spirit of Walter Duranty.

“I don’t think the party favoritism charge holds up. Yes, the media went hard after two Republican senators, Larry Craig (who pleaded guilty

Lots of comment this morning, centered on the Washington Post Op-Ed of yesterday, which spends it’s time destroying three basic arguments of those against offshore drilling.

However, it propagates a couple barrels of snake oil. The most offensive of the

• A first place finish at the OTB Caption Contest. Some of those things just wrte themselves.
• I guess the New York Times does admit it’s mistakes. 50 years later.  Which ought to give us a clue about when they’re

B.J’s fall from gtace, Los Angelos Times:

‘I am not a racist,’ ex-President Bill Clinton asserts
Former presidents get a whole lot of leeway in what they say in public. But former President Bill Clinton just violated one

Erica Wagner at the London Times notes the passage of one of the great voices of freedom: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:

Years of internal exile and suffering never daunted him. The 1962 publication of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich