Rick Lowry points out that — despite the establishment media’s effort to portray Mike Huckabee’s campaign as a new populist force in the GOP — Huckabee has so far failed to gain meaningful support outside evangelical Christians.  This dynamic, particularly Huckabee’s difficulty with Catholic voters, was a topic of discussion of discussion here well before the Michigan primary.  That Huckabee does about as well with non-evangelicals as Ron Paul should be an

Thus shines a good deed in a weary world:  One of the two survivors of the San Francisco Zoo tiger attack that left a 17-year-old dead told the victim’s father that the three had yelled and waved at the animal while standing atop the railing of the tiger’s exhibit, police said in court documents filed Thursday. Paul Dhaliwal, 19, denied throwing anything into the enclosure or otherwise antagonizing the animal,

Excitable Andy seizes upon the indictment of former GOP congressman — and born-again Evangelical Christian — Mark Deli Siljander on Islamic terror-funding charges as another opportunity to equate conservative Christians with Islamist terrorists. At Jihad Watch, Robert Spencer addresses how detached from reality that claim is.  I would note that Sullivan’s argument resembles the Greenwaldian paranoid style of blogging, reeking of a moral arrogance quite at odds with someone purporting to preach

The Politico is among those reporting that a Spanish-language radio ad aired in Nevada by UNITE HERE — one of Sen. Barack Obama’s labor allies — is effectively accusing Sen. Hillary Clinton as being anti-Hispanic: (Translation) Hillary Clinton does not respect our people. Hillary Clinton supporters went to court to prevent working people to vote this Saturday — that is an embarrassment. Hillary Clinton supporters want to prevent people from

One of the nice things about my regular web gig is that I can rationalize going to see advance or midnight screenings of movies.  As some PW regulars have mentioned Cloverfield in various comment threads, I’m cross-posting an expanded version of my usual non-spoilery review here.  Indeed, I am putting most of it it”below the fold,” given the premium the movie’s makers put on secrecy. Cloverfield is — as the trailers

Scar-Jo may be an Obama girl, but she is going to entertain the troops in the Persian Gulf for five days as part of a USO/Army Morale Welfare Recreation entertainment tour. For some reason, Johansson gets a large supply of fan letters from the military and wanted to do more than just answer them on paper.

According to the Politico, people are crying foul over Sen. John Edwards touting the results of a Frank Luntz focus group, given his stated loating of the Fox News Channel. Edwards will take whatever good news he can get, from any media source. A new study finds that John Edwards doesn’t exist. Poof!

Today’s New York Times story on the many faces of Sen. Hillary Clinton is about her efforts to connect with voters, but it reminds to provide her campaign with more gratuitous advice on how to turn her rival, Sen. Barack Obama, back from a Movement to a man.  She should exploit the internal contradiction that forms the core of his campaign. The NYT story provides a typical Obama quote, which in this instance was uttered at

peace activist?

Sen. Barack Obama, in an interview with the Reno Gazette-Journal’s editorial board, expressed some admiration for Ronald Reagan, arguing that Reagan changed the direction of America in a way the “incremental” politics of Bill Clinton failed to do.  These remarks set off a wave of Reagan Derangement Syndrome in the Leftosphere.  One exception is Matt Yglesias: Obama is pretty unambiguously claiming that much as Reagan was a friendly, popular face of a much