New Orleans based Entergy still hasn’t resumed power for 200k customers after the ice storms of January 27-28. Clearly, this is Bush’s fault. Orchids. I think we need a Tolerance Czar. Don’t you? UPDATE: Malkin has an SOS from hard-hit Paducah

Economy, Predator Drones to blame: “In the past, you could take out the No. 3 al-Qaida leader, and No. 4 just moved up to take his place,” says one official. “Well, if you take out No. 3, No. 4 and then 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10, it suddenly becomes a lot more difficult to revive the leadership cadre.” Yeah, I stole the formulation from AoSHQ. Great day for

For non-performance of happy, patriotic duty of every American to remit all owed taxes forthwith. (h/t Techie) Were it not Obama in the White House, I’d say that there was a disturbing trend emerging here. More, with lotsa links, from Gateway Related: How did Obama get to be such a big Dodgers fan? From the comments, it appears that Daschle has withdrawn. I’m concerned about the message this sends to

From the WSJ: This week marks the seventh anniversary of the murder of our son, former Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. My wife Ruth and I wonder: Would Danny have believed that today’s world emerged after his tragedy? The answer does not come easily. Danny was an optimist, a true believer in the goodness of mankind. Yet he was also a realist, and would not let idealism bend the

There are so many links, so little time, but I thought that I’d offer this one up for your delectation. Jesse Taylor at Pandagon: мебелиI Can’t Believe Protein Wisdom Is Shutting Down • Batsh*t Crazy • Race Who’s going to be left to tell us that black people have sold out and betrayed their history by holding up the most successful black person in history as a hero? I really

No, I’m not invited, but I’ve been thinking it might be a hoot to hold our own classical liberal symposium on those same days, in which we lay out a plan to disseminate (sorry, Amanda! If it helps, we can later move on to fertilization) our ideas, and come up with a strategy for taking back both liberalism and conservatism from the statists on either end who have supplied themselves

Algore went outside, saw his own (hulking) shadow, got frightened and cold and went back inside to turn up the thermostat. So, six more weeks of winter, bitches! And on this slide, you can see . . .

Via Jammie Wearing Fool: Poor little Puffy. He’s really sorry for cheating on his taxes and now claims to be embarrassed. OK, so if you’re embarrassed, reject the cabinet nomination and go away. You and your fat-cat lobbyist wife don’t have to worry about finances like the little people. Thomas A. Daschle, picked by President Barack Obama to be Health and Human Services secretary, said he was “deeply embarrassed” about

Pam Spaulding and (Roy Edroso at) the (troubled*) Village Voice, among others, can’t distinguish between my post on the PJM meltdown and Jeff’s update, addressed to Roger. Moreover, they’ve grabbed the “wingnut welfare” meme so helpfully handed to them by The Fedora and run with it. I’ve got other things to attend to today. Lots, in fact. But I may have to spend some time responding to these twerps. I’d

I really dig my priest, but he’s from Boston. So, in the readings today he recounts the story of God appointing Joshua to take over where the old man left off. Then he pulls out a children’s book about Harriet Tubman, called Moses, about her faith and her mission to free first herself, then her children, then hundreds of other slaves. Fine. As I’ve mentioned before, blacks’ association with Israel