This is the best use of the “some have argued” formulation we’ve read all month: MORE »

* Clarence Thomas doesn’t want the EPA to act on global warming, cause he likes it hot. [WP, NYT, LAT, USAT]
* Antonin Scalia doesn’t want to address the legality of holding detainees at Guantánamo, cause he hears cries of innocent men in his dreams at night, and likes it. [WP, NYT]
* No one hates America more than Harry Reid. [WP]
* Mitt Romney is an “aggressive fundraiser,” John McCain has “a host of shortcomings.” [WP, WSJ]
* Even intelligence reports in Italy are luxuriously handcrafted, accurate. [WP]
* NASA Inspector General Robert Cobb could end up fired — into space on the back of a photon torpedo. [WP, NYT]

* John Edwards will make a “serious” announcement today at noon, but will continue to resent Elizabeth Edwards for life. [WP, NYT]
* “Partisan witch hunt” is on! House subpoenas K. Rova, Albeady Gonzales, JoBo, Blanche Miers and more! [WP, NYT]
* Al Gore comes back to Capitol Hill just as “shrill” and “accurate” as when he left. [WP, NYT]
* Anti-war protesters at the Capitol feel safe under the “impressive bulk” of John Murtha. [WP]
* Several of the fired attorneys were the top seed in their divisions. [USAT]
* Justice Department really has the black lung. [WP]
* Congressional budget processzzzzzzzzz. [WP]
* FDA moves to trim payola. [NYT, LAT]
* Iraq funding bill has more farm aid than Willie Nelson. [USAT]

* Number of hours President Bush spent in Colombia: 7. Number of troops assigned to protect him: 20,000. Impact on drug trade: worthless. [NYT]
* Barack Obama floats like a butterfly, Hillary Clinton is a “b.” [WP]
* Robert Gates makes the big decisions at the Pentagon by asking himself, “what would Donald Rumsfeld do?” Then he does the opposite. [NYT]
* Military decides now is a good time to figure out what to do if the “surge” doesn’t turn Iraq back into the garden of Eden after all. [LAT]
* Nancy Pelosi tries calling Captain Planet, gets Jim Sensenbrenner instead. [WP]
* Fred Thompson hikes his skirt up and sticks his thumb out to catch a ride to the Vice Presidential manse. [WP]
* February 5, 2008: the day the Walnuts Express goes quiet. [NYT]
* Be short. Army short. [USAT]

If you watched the Oscars last night, you saw former Vice President Al Gore, still expanding at precisely the same rate as John Travolta, pick up an Academy Award for his Power-Point presentation. MORE »

Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world’s largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today.

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* President Bush to announce new grant program for states tonight that will provide health insurance for all legal citizens who talk proper American. [WP, NYT]
* Pies baked for previous SOTUs remain in sky. [WSJ]
* Nancy Pelosi marks her territory on John Dingell’s desk, then tells him what to think about climate change. [WP]
* A jury of Scooter Libby’s peers: white women who read a lot of Us Weekly — cause the stars are just like us! [WP, NYT]
* Classy casino owner gives $1 million classy dollars to ever classy Newt Gingrich. [WP]
* Public campaign financing sounds too much like welfare to Hillary Clinton. [WP, NYT]
* John Warner’s just happy to have a reason to talk to the microphones again. [WP, NYT, USAT]

Washington has spent 15 years getting warmer, because of too many trees. Now we’ve moved from the New England/Mid-Atlantic climate zone to a full-fledged Southern one. MORE »

Senator Inhofe’s increasingly lonely crusade against the existence of Global Warming continues Wednesday when the Oklahoma Republican holds a festive “Climate Change and the Media” committee hearing. MORE »