the negro trooper. —Old Asshati saying

So, there’s still hope for Algore. Frankly, this is the sort of story PJM ought to send JTR to cover. Back in the day, we didn’t have to wait for Europeans to do this sort of thing. I think that the US could build a far superior doomsday machine to theirs that would make excellent use of some of this stimulus package. More disappointment: Blago omits playing race card Morenoneoversoever:

Faggotaboutit. It’s about why voters should never give their hearts over completely to politicians. As a class, they are inherently insecure — a character flaw at the base of all politicians, from Bill Clinton to Bob Packwood. And they lie, with rare exceptions — a hard thing to say at a time when the doors of possibility are open to leaders yet untarnished. Heh. Packwood. Something about Aldous Huxley and

Next, consider how the $604 billion of outlays would be spent. It’s easy to go through a huge proposal and find what seem like fairly ridiculous line items, so I’ll focus on as comprehensive a view as I can of the spending. The CBO reviews each Title (basically, spending area) of the bill, and calls out major items within each Title. Here are all the items that I saw them

The Dark Lord at WSJ: On the campaign trail, Barack Obama criticized Washington for being “obsessed with the perpetual campaign.” As president he is the first occupant of the Oval Office to give his director of political affairs — who coordinates the president’s involvement with his party and other campaign related activities — an office in the West Wing. Many Americans may assume that the president’s entire staff is in

Let’s not even go into the whole Oil-for-Food fiasco. Peter Wehner writes about the new old Hopeychangey realpolitik: The first is that for 60 years, we tolerated oppression for the sake of “stability” in the Middle East. While much of the rest of the world moved toward freedom, the Arab Middle East did not. It suffered from what Arab scholars call a “freedom deficit” that froze social and material progress.

Several months ago, I received an email from one of my Senators. In this case, it was Bernie Sanders, most recently seen screeching over the caption to the official portrait of George W. Bush at the National Gallery. An avowed socialist, Bernie is nevertheless somewhat less a partisan hack than my other Senator, the august Patrick Leahy. So, seizing the opportunity, as the tone he had assumed toward me was

And it looks like ‘Zo. Here was Iowahawk’s take on Teh Pledge. Here’s the original abortion. Point/Counterpoint takes on the Israeli-Palestinian mess: Don’t get me wrong. It’s not like I love the Palestinians. After all, they’re Muslims, and all Muslims are trained to be suicide bombers at an early age. So, I don’t like that. Also, the way they pray frightens me, and their skin color is different from mine,

Just as we predicted, it constitutes another form of torture. John Stephenson’s got the story at STACLU. Meanwhile, Cuba would like very much to have Guantanamo back, now that Jimmy Carter’s back in office.

Bill Whittle’s gone over to Breitbart’s Big Hollywood. Iowahawk’s already there, though what the deal is with Anorak, I don’t know, and he’s got Bolus and his own place. Some of the other writers there are quite good. I think that Jeff would fit in well, as the interest there is in representation and he’s a bit of a pop culture maven. Richard Fernandez is the only regular voice that