The blog at The American Prospect embeds a five-minute documentary on “Hollywood’s vilification of Arabs” to suggest that they are “Today’s Go-To Villains.”  At The Atlantic, Ross Douthat responds in part: So far as I could tell, the most recent clips are from Aladdin and True Lies, both of which are fifteen years old. In the seven years since 9/11, with the nation embroiled in a global struggle in which

Just for the record, months ago, when he first announced, I wrote IowaHawk about doing Obama Superstar: Obama, Hey-Bama, Bama Bama, Obama, Hey-Bama, Obama! Barry, Barry, won’t you rescue me? Bama, Obama, Hey, Superstar! But to do this properly, since I don’t really have the time (and my computer’s on the fritz), I’m wondering whether we can’t divvy the thing up, with people taking a song or two to parodize.

Both Michelle Malkin and the Hotline took note: Chelsea Clinton doesn’t say much on the campaign trail with her mother — famously declining to answer questions recently from a 9-year-old Scholastic News reporter. But she headed to her alma mater, Stanford University, yesterday to meet with 100 students involved in the Inter-Sorority Council. Both also highlighted the former First Daughter’s answer to a question about health care: “(My mother) and

Today, Sen. Barack Obama, having let a racial stew fester on a slow boil for a couple of days to demonstrate the impotency of the Clintons’ aspirations to alpha victimhood in the Democratic presidential campaign, deftly stepped back into his role as Uniter, officially proclaiming that he, former Sen. John Edwards, and Sen. Hillary Clinton all share the same goals when it comes to civil rights and equal justice issues.  He then mounted his

…..this Erica Jong column at Puffington is the single most mind-numbingly stupid column I’ve read in a long time, and that’s a very crowded, competitive field.  It’s a self-satirizing cornucopia of  lefty victim fantasies, every sentence a fiskable treasure.  I won’t bore you with any extended excerpts.  If you’d like to subject yourself to a good dose of idiocy, be my guest, but here’s the opening sentence:  I am so

Tim Blair has been diagnosed with cancer.  In addition to his must-read blog, Tim has a regular column in the Daily Telegraph.  He’s a stalwart conservative and equal-opportunity satirizer of all things idiotarian.  Better than that, he gets to hang out with Iowahawk and drive really cool cars.  Please stop by and let him know you’re thinking about him.

It was faint and squishy sound made by Excitable Andy, agreeing with David Boaz and Timothy Sandefur that Ron Paul (TOMWCSA) is… well, not exactly a libertarian champion of gay rights.  A two-sentence post, in fact, casually dropped without further comment in a flurry of morning blogging. It seems like only four days earlier, Sullivan was thanking God for Ron Paul, and “understanding” his “negligence” in publishing newsletters with views

The latest hand in the Democrats’ tournament of identity politics is being played out today. While Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign has prepared a detailed memo listing various instances in which it perceived Sen. Hillary Clinton’s camp to have played the race card in the Democratic presidential race, Bill Clinton went on WVON-AM in Chicago with his own accusations: “I’ve got before me a list of 80 attacks on Hillary that are quite personal by

NPR Pitches Radio for the Dead Heh? What?

After repeatedly touting the analyses of Jay Cost at RCP — including in posts with titles like “What do you do with a candidate like Obama?“, I cannot help but note that his latest post in the Horse Race Blog is titled, “How Do You Solve a Problem Like McCain?” Is that you, Jay? Anyway, Cost argues that it is a bit hasty to declare McCain the frontrunner, and not just because