As occasionally noted, some endorsements matter beyond the momentary flicker they create on television screens and computer monitors.  Is North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton today as big a deal as Ben Simth and David Paul Kuhn suggest at the Politico? Typically, an endorser can provide contacts, fundraising and even organization to an endorsee.  Smith & Kuhn note that is not the case here: Easley doesn’t bring the kind

illustrates ideological struggle.

Steyn vivisects Her Grievousness.

These committed fighters for human rights have been dealt a terrible, unforeseen public relations blow.  It is true that the people in question are Austrian, so naturally many Germans will deny that such a thing could happen in their country. I question the timing.

Company releasing home-made porn flick claimed to be of Jimi Hendrix getting it on with a couple of women (which the article helpfully identifies as “brunettes”). Enterpreneur thinks it would be awesome to have sex footage of Elvis or Sinatra (young, in both instances, I presume). Which brings up today’s question: What historical figures would you most care to see resurrected in porn? (h/t Hot Air) More Zombie Love: Fuck

That wasn’t so hard, was it? David Thompson finishes a post on the absurd apology fallout from the Marcotte gaffe with this beautifully considered and constructed finale: One of the surest ways to erode a person’s probity is to make them repeat in public, among their peers, things that are unrealistic and absurd; things they know, or suspect, to be untrue. The more incoherent and ridiculous the claim – or

presented for side-by-side comparison.

Bloomberg’s Christopher Stern reports on Barack Obama’s Total Information Awareness: Almost 2 million people have entered personal information on Obama pages on social-networking Web sites such as Facebook, MySpace and his campaign’s mybarackobama.com, offering home addresses, phone numbers, their views on specific issues and the names of friends. The data have allowed Obama, 46, to raise more than $200 million, fill sports arenas with supporters across the nation and motivate

Patterico wants to know: Did a prosecutor in the New Orleans U.S. Attorney’s Office commit misconduct which could jeopardize the conviction of former Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards? Did a defendant who turned state’s evidence against Edwards bribe Congressman William Jefferson to influence the former U.S. Attorney to get a better deal for himself? Did the Department of Justice ignore evidence of these claims? These are the allegations made by James

From TIME’s Joe Klein to the The View, folks are starting to talk about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s claim that attacks on his hate-filled sermons are somehow attacks on “the black church” (the corollary being Barack Obama’s claim that he could no more disown Wright than he could “the black community”). It is thus time for a reminder: Obama knew he was joining a radical church; Rev. Wright told him so from the