We’re all going to be reading a lot about this, is my guess: Three federal employees are being investigated for unlawful political activities after they allegedly sent an e-mail falsely accusing Barack Obama of being a “radical Muslim,” the Globe has learned. The US Office of Special Counsel – the independent federal agency responsible for enforcing a law banning civil service workers from engaging in political activism while performing their

As the South Carolina primary campaign built to a climax, Sen. Barack Obama addressed a largely African-American audience in Sumter: Obama used the friendly setting to urge voters not to be fooled by what he said were untruths coming from Hillary Clinton’s campaign. “They’re trying to bamboozle you. It’s the same old okey-doke,” he said, using a slang phrase for a con. “Y’all know about okey-doke, right? It’s the same

Hugh Atkin has followed up his Bowie-based presidential debate video with a mash-up of Sen. Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire and Tom Cruise’s Scientology PR video.  Freaky.

Mr. Siegel, 50 years old, made headlines several years ago when he was a staff writer at New Republic. As he describes in his introduction, anonymous readers were using the Talkback section of a culture blog he wrote to launch vile, over-the-top attacks upon him. Mr. Siegel then created his own pseudonym, and used it to attack his enemies and praise himself. He says that he was goaded into action

Smokers, heavy drinkers, the obese and the elderly should be barred from receiving some operations, according to doctors, with most saying the health service cannot afford to provide free care to everyone. Of course, that would never happen here, if we socialized further.  Oh, no!  Our bureaucrats are shinier.   Blue Crab Blvd and Belmont Club have more.

As usual, RCP’s Jay Cost has an insightful analysis of the results in South Carolina, looking at the racial factor, but more broadly looking at Sen. Barack Obama’s ability to get white votes through the campaign (esp. in Nevada) and concluding with thoughts about the relative strength of the black and Hispanic votes in the Super-Duper Tuesday states (more than making up for his prior omission of the Hispanic vote

A woman advertised on the popular Internet site Craigslist for an assassin to kill the wife of a man with whom she’d had an affair, authorities said Saturday. The ad by Ann Marie Linscott, 49, was posted in November as a generic request for somebody to perform a “freelance” job, court document said. Her true intention was only communicated to those who e-mailed her seeking additional information about the job, the

Allahpundit, in commenting on the Jonathan Chait op-ed expressing disillusionment with the Clintons’ campaign tactics and character (discussed here earlier today) asks whether this disillusionment will have any lasting impact, and concludes that it will not: All of this will be forgiven and forgotten once the general election campaign gets going, in an eyeblink.  Yet earlier in the same piece, Allahpundit asks different questions which may be less rhetorical than intended: Can Chait really

Warner Bros. let the options lapse on the young cast that director George Miller chose to play DC superhero staples [The Justice League]. The studio, which had set Tuesday as its greenlight deadline for the pic, confirmed Wednesday the project is on indefinite hold. Racist characterization? From Memeorandum: Obama runs away with SC primary  

Disabled Spy Satellite Threatens Earth Oh, yeah?  I think Earth could kick its ass, even if it weren’t disabled.  This one was good, too: Gladiators Return to New Orleans Suburb  I was hoping it would be about alligators in the gladiolas, but it wasn’t.