News cycle in overdrive

Does it seem like the news cycle has been in overdrive recently?

Woke up today with Rita still at Cat 5 and still on course to hit Texas and drift on up our way. Houston-area residents, being a few IQ points north of their Louisiana cousins, have opted for "run away!" and thus are clogging all routes leading north for a hundred miles or so. Nothing wrong with that as long as you keep moving.

Officials in Oklahoma City are admitting that their $10 million "guarantee" to the "New Orleans" Hornets to play at OKC's Ford Center includes the potential for spending tax money from the State of Oklahoma. Whose idea was that, and where's the legal authority? Plus a state lawmaker wants to pay the team's relocation expenses. More on this later ...

A couple of Chucky Schumer's boys on the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee may have perpetrated a felony or two when they used the social security number of Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele in order to get their hands on his credit report. This is a federal offense, by the way. Steele is considering a run for the U.S. Senate, so all's fair, right? Wonder if justice will be served or if, as usual, Democratic dirty-tricksters walk away free?

Looks like Oklahoma lawmakers may not have a chance to vote on a bill that would create a Voter ID system to prevent wholesale vote fraud, and the guy responsible is beginning to sound like a DU moonbat, or Howard Dean (not a dime's difference). BatesLine is doing the heavy lifting.

Last but certainly not least, Robert the Llama Butcher has issued a fatwa against Bambi.

There's obviously a lot more going on, and maybe we'll even have a chance to get to it a bit later today.