Sen. Patrick Kennedy says he wasn’t drunk when he nearly missed a Capitol police cruiser, crashed into a barricade and then got out staggering and talking about being late for a Senate vote at about 3 a.m. Thursday morning. The Capitol police officers couldn’t perform a breathalyzer test on him before an officer or two […]

“Is it too soon for movies to be released about 9/11?”
That’s the headline of a front page story in the St. Joseph News Press. It’s a local story asking whether people can deal with the upcoming release of “Flight 93,” a movie drawn from all the factual info that exists about what happened on September […]

I admit I’ve taken a bit of delight watching secular Big Government proponents wrestle with how it is you get people to do things that are considered bad for them. The crusade against smoking had all the religious fervor of any other crusade, but since those leading the charge are the same ones who urge […]

Cheers greet Dick Cheney:
Cheney made his first public appearance since the shooting, receiving a rousing ovation from legislators in his home state of Wyoming.
“It’s a wonderful experience to be greeted by such warmth by the leaders of our great state. It’s especially true when you’ve had a very long week,” Cheney told lawmakers in Cheyenne. […]

It’s a bad day to be a liberal, but they’ve got no one to blame but themselves. As things stand, it looks like Judge Alito will be confirmed onto the Supreme Court. I’m good with that — he seems like a good enough guy. But I never would’ve thought it was such a big deal […]

Mayor Nagin tried to explain the “chocolate New Orleans” comment from yesterday. Apparently one TV station had noticed that’s it’s, y’know, crazy … and, um,… racist … and so they were good enough to let him round out his thoughts:

How do you make chocolate? You take dark chocolate, you mix it with white milk, and […]

Remember Ray Nagin, the mayor of New Orleans who made such a great impression on us all during Hurricane Katrina by whining, complaining and leaving school buses to flood when they could have been taking people out of harm’s way?
Well, it’s official now. He’s a loon.
Surely God is mad at America. He sent us hurricane […]

From townhall.com, a column by one of Alito’s former clerks — a self-described liberal — taking issue with the attempts to “bork” the judge:
In light of the Alito feeding frenzy, I feel compelled as a liberal and a former clerk to speak out and attempt to offer a different perspective to perhaps stem, or at […]

I’ve been away for a late holiday retreat with my folks, and so I’ve missed the beginning of the Alito hearings. Doesn’t look like something that’s hard to catch up on though. All hail the blogosphere!

I checked out:

Drudge and Rush for the conservative take. Best Rush quote of the day: “We’re seeing that the Democrats […]

This all came and went so fast I forgot to even mention it. Story from Saturday: The House last night overwhelmingly voted down a resolution calling for immediate withdrawal from Iraq.
Just to be very clear:

On Thursday, Democrat Rep. John P. Murtha proposed that we pull out of Iraq over the next six months.
On Friday, two […]