White House star photographer Pete Souza is just cold runnin’ around snapping pictures of the snow blanketing Washington today. The shadowy female figure walking through the snow is a terrible ghost. [White House]

• Proven untrustworthy Oath of Office-giver Joe Biden was sent to give the Oath of Office to Hillary Clinton. To no one on Earth’s surprise, he also sort of mocked this ceremony by giggling beforehand with reporters and the Clintons, again at the expense of Justice Roberts (the “Caroline Kennedy of Reading Properly.”) [Top of the Ticket]
• Oh Tom Daschle, you cad: Today is ironically the 96th birthday of when the government started collecting income tax! [RedState]
• Another Snow Day for DC school children. They will all spend the day writing letters to Barack Obama in the Washington Post, asking him to shake his Kenyan desert goddess statues for more precipitation. [Hit & Run]
• Obama’s stimulus bill contains secret preservatives that aim to fatten and hasten the ripening of America’s children. Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi will wait patiently. [Politico]
• Bill O’Reilly has declared WAR on the New York Times after some editorial called his views on immigration those of “nativism.” But it was only after looking up the definition of “nativism” that he declared this war, for that was the final straw. [Crooks and Liars]

Performing his first miracle since he picked George W. Bush to be president of the United States, God blanketed Baghdad in some light, fluffy snow today. Almost no one in the city had ever actually seen snow before, which fell all morning for the first time since anyone could remember. So awestruck was the whole place that not a single person got blown up, shot or decapitated while the snow was falling. MORE »