Lessons in Rail

I’m often asked why I railfan. Someone wrote and asked me that today.

It”s really a family activity.  I wrote to this point about 5 years ago… while sitting just west of my office here… in a little burg called

I’ve spent the last several hours, devouring everything I can get my hands on from the news sites, and the blogs, about the obviously planted questions from the Democrats last night.

….and that’s my conclusion, I don’t think there’s any

Word from MSNBC this morning, is that Trent Lott is going to resign very shortly.

Personally, I couldn’t be more pleased.  Here’s the guy that came out in support of Shamnesty, and when the people, including those in his own

Dale Franks:

Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the former US military commander in Iraq, has given the Democratic response to the President’s weekly radio address. Apparently, the general doesn’t much like the president.

Retired Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, who led

An amusing article, from Gene Lyons, which was reprinted in the Northwest Arkansas News this morning…

It’s no exaggeration to say that the establishment media’s initial response to the blogosphere was panic. The idea of mere citizens talking back to

Dale Franks, this morning notes that while Ron Paul has come out with a statement about racism. And Dale, analytical type that he is, parses the statement out and finds it wanting:

Mr. Paul seems to be making the old

Jonah Goldberg in today’s LA TIMES:

As the hopeless but energetic presidential campaign of Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) builds momentum in name recognition, fundraising and cross-ideology appeal, media conservatives are beginning to attack Paul in earnest

You’re usually more on

From Mona Charen, who I quote all too infrequently around here:

Memo to: Ron Paul supporters

Subject: Your e-mails

Okay, enough is enough. Like every other journalist in America, and who knows, maybe the world or even the universe,

You’ll recall last night I commented on the drooling idiot, Kos and how Newsweek had lowered themselves into hiring the guy, saying, “That’s OK… Newsweek didn’t have any credibility left, anyway.  No loss.”… Well, perhaps… just perhaps… I under-estimated Newsweek.

Michelle Malkin reports, today:

The Chicago Tribune’s Howard Witt penned an investigative piece published yesterday on the controversy surrounding the charitable funds raised for the Jena 6. I’m sure you’ll be shocked to learn that much of the money can’t

Kevin Drum tells us about as much about Democrats as he is about Republicans with this one… and much about his own inability, as well…

“THANK GOD FOR TALK RADIO!”....Why is Tom Tancredo such a monomaniac on the

• I’ve spent the last several days, beating up on Panther, which is my main desktop computer, as well as doing upgrade work on the other systems here at Casa de Bit. I’ve managed to work through the problems surrounding my

Gotta love Glenn’s comment about Pat Robertson and Rudy Giuliani, today.

“Evangelical Christian leader Pat Robertson on Wednesday endorsed former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.” Well, it’s only fair — Hillary has to deal with the Mondale endorsement . .

Until about an hour ago, I had been concentrating on who won and who lost, and trying to make some political “Will of the people” sense about it all.  But no really clear picture came through until such time as

Alan Dershowitz, guesting at the WSJ today:

Consider, for example, the contentious and emotionally laden issue of the use of torture in securing preventive intelligence information about imminent acts of terrorism–the so-called “ticking bomb” scenario. I am not now talking