Sigh. More shoddy “journalism”

Jake Tapper at ABC’s Political Punch runs a hit clip on Bill Clinton:
In a long, and interesting speech, he characterized what the U.S. and other industrialized nations need to do to combat global warming this way: “We just have to slow down our economy and cut back our greenhouse gas emissions ’cause we have to [...]

A shout to all my brothers and sisters

Blue-eyed people have a single ancestor:
Hans Eiberg of the University of Copenhagen and his team examined mitochondrial DNA and compared the eye color of blue-eyed individuals in countries as diverse as Jordan, Denmark and Turkey.
“Originally, we all had brown eyes,” Eiberg said in a statement. “But a genetic mutation affecting the OCA2 gene in our [...]

Great bargain

I’m not ashamed to admit that my wife and I bowl…it’s seen as such a lowbrow pastime in our circle of friends (which warrants a post on its own…our friends are far, far from highbrow types themselves :-), but the fact is, we have a great time at it. Oh, we don’t belong to [...]

A vote for Huckabee IS a vote for McCain

Hugh Hewitt has been throwing that sentence out like a brickbat for some time now, and this morning, Mark Krikorian at The Corner joins the chorus:
I second Kathryn’s sentiment that Huckabee should get out, now. But whatever his own motives for staying in — positioning for the vice-presidential nomination or to run again in four [...]

Rejoicing at Edwards’s failure?

Ramesh Ponnuru:
By the Way
there hasn’t been nearly enough rejoicing around here at Edwards’s failure. “The most disturbing vice presidential candidate since Henry Wallace,” a friend of mine called him in 2004. It’s nice to know he won’t be president. Now we just have to keep him from being AG.
I suppose if one was actually [...]

We’re about to have us a FOR REAL spectator sport

Republicans: Mitt Romney is going to go negative on John McCain in a way that will make those New Hampshire attack ads look like backslapping. McCain’s attack on Romney regarding his support for the surge and the war effort gives Romney an excuse to go ballistic, and you’ll see the first round at tonight’s [...]

Edwards dropping out today?

Here, and now here.
If true, there’s going to be a far left backlash like we haven’t seen since Kerry conceded. The Kossacks and DU’ers have convinced themselves that Edwards will stay in until the convention (largely because, well, Edwards has insisted that he would), in order to “give them a voice”. If he [...]

Developing story

For those of you that remember last year’s Elizabeth Edwards / Monty Johnson dust-up, I received an interesting tip very early this morning from one of the players in that drama. Apparently, whether or not one is “rabid” because one is a gun owner is entirely based on party identification in the eyes of [...]

Buying the presidency

Byron York:
When the figures come out, there’s no doubt Romney’s rivals will criticize him as a guy who couldn’t stay in the race, or couldn’t conduct the campaign he is conducting, if he, like them, had to rely almost exclusively on the funds he receives from actual supporters. (The other campaigns have debts, but [...]

Florida watching

Hell, I just got off work ten minutes ago, so I suppose I might as well stick around for awhile and see what happens in Florida.
For this sort of thing, I only need four tabs open in my browser: Geraghty, CNN Election Center, Gmail, and this blog.
Jim is already reporting some potentially bad news for [...]