Two emails I received today point to posts that show the divide among the Republican voting coalition over the issue of illegal immigration. First, here’s Confederate Yankee’s Bob Owens: That empty, sick feeling of betrayal in your stomach resulting from Senate Republican’s selling their constituents down the river with their immigration compromise does has a name. It’s called being Fristed. Sadly, it can only be cured by ballots. See also,

From the Washington Post: An internal document prepared by a top Democratic strategist warns that a majority of African American voters in Maryland are open to supporting Republican Senate candidate Michael S. Steele and advises the party not to wait to “knock Steele down.” The 37-page report says a sizable segment of likely black voters—as much as 44 percent—would readily abandon their historic Democratic allegiances “after hearing Steele’s messaging.” “Governor

On tonight’s “Colbert Report,” Markos Moulitsas Zuniga—your “Daily Kos” emcee—blinks and susses his way to media stardom.  Check your local listings for the time. Also, don’t miss tonight’s debate between Zionist sympathizer and fascist traitor to the ideals of the Movement, David Horowitz, and Ward Churchill—famed Native-American-esque artist and tenured university professor, whose scholarship on “ethnic studies” never fails to speak Truth to Power (though it does often fail to

FIRE’s President Greg Lukianoff emails: Today, FIRE adds Appalachian State University to the long list of institutions at which it has toppled speech codes. Following FIRE and the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy’s landmark Report on the State of the First Amendment in the University of North Carolina System, and at the behest of student activists, App State recently repealed its most egregious speech code. We are

Readying myself for today’s stress echocardiogram, I choose a pair of light cross-training shoes, yellow spandex running shorts, and a black mesh shirt that allows my skin to breathe. The black porkpie hat and chain wallet?  Well, those just cap off the outfit.  And sometimes, health is all about feeling good about yourself.

Writing for The American Thinker, Clarice Feldman takes on special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald and the Libby prosecution in a long an interesting follow-up to an earlier post.  From “The Potemkin Prosecution: Part Two”: At the heart of Libby’s procedural defense is the creation by then-Acting Attorney General James Comey of a special counsel cut free from all supervision and direction and all limitations on his conduct set forth in Department

Jacob Sullum, Reason, “Unfair Food” (May print edition): Obese people who blame restaurant chains or other food sellers for making them fat face a daunting obstacle when try to recover damages in court:  They have to show that a particular company is responsible for their obesity.  But Richard Daynard, a Northeastern University law professor who runs the Obesity and Law Project at the Public Health Advocacy Institute, thinks he has

From the WSJ (subscription only): Concluding one of the most brutal admission seasons ever, college officials say they are accepting an unusually low percentage of applicants. Elite colleges including Brown University, Stanford University and the University of Pennsylvania say they have accepted a smaller percentage of applicants than ever before. Brown admitted only 13.8% of applicants, down from the 14.6% of applicants it accepted last year. That is a record-low

Please tune in today to “Hoist the Black Flag” on Rightalk. The show begins at 4:05 pm EST, 1:05 pacific. Today’s guest is…well, nobody, actually.  As in, we have no frickin’ guests lined up—though we’re hoping a few special guests phone in.  If not, we’re pretty much screwed.  Oh.  And sadly, I STILL don’t have the broadcast equipment, so I’ll be doing the show from a telephone again.  Which explains

From Charles Oliver, “Brickbats,” Reason (May 2006 print edition): When Scottish developer Marcus Salter started to move a big rock in the middle of his development, neighbors in St. Fillians complained he would disturb the fairies that lived underneith it.  At first he thought they were joking.  Then the local community council started talking about complaining to the authorities, and he decided to have the project redesigned to leave the