Dying Breed on “Ancient Coelacanth Caught in Indonesia”

From David Thompson: If you haven’t yet watched this stirring exchange between MoToons publisher Ezra Levant and Officer Shirlene McGovern of the Alberta Human Rights Commission, I urge you to do so now. Here’s Levant’s opening statement. Note Officer McGovern’s expression throughout.

Having written about the current Identity-Politics-A-Palooza in the Democratic campaign more than once in the past few days, Josh Marshall sums up the state of play after BET founder and prominent Sen. Hillary Clinton supporter Bob Johnson’s apparent reference to Sen. Barack Obama’s admitted drug use as a young man: We seem to be at the point where there are now two credible possibilities. One is that the Clinton campaign

The Jacksonville Jaguars did not complain that their opponents gave themselves an unfair advantage by naming themselves Patriots.  Nor did they float conspiracy theories for their loss.   Gloria Steinem and the New York Times did not weigh in on the glass ceiling which kept women relegated to the sidelines in the role of hawt cheerleaders.  Green Bay QB Brett Favre (Fav…ruh?) thanked God for completing an improvised, underhanded, 11-yard toss

Today, Greenwald wrote in support of Ezra Levant, who is being persecuted by the Alberta Human Rights and Citizenship Commission in Calgary — at the behest of Islamist grievance-mongers — for publishing the Danish Mohammed cartoons in Canada’s Western Standard. Granted, given that his primary claim to fame as a First Amendment expert is his defense of Illinois neo-Nazi Matthew Hale, it would be difficult for him to reach a

In “The Big Picture(s),” I noted the tendency of the establishment media, from the outset of the invasion of Iraq, to view the story through the prism of Vietnam — or at least the establishment media’s view of Vietnam. This was likely one reason why The New Republic landed in the scandal over its “Baghdad Diarist,” Pvt. Scott Beauchamp.  The story of the soldier dehumanized and involved in inhumane or

Gateway Pundit and Judith Apter Klinghoffer flag Sen. Hillary Clinton’s attempt to take credit for progress in Iraq on NBC’s Meet The Press: SEN. CLINTON: Tim, I’m going to go back to what the whole point of the surge was, and the testimony that we heard last fall. The point of the surge was to push the Iraqi government to make these tough choices. Now, if we put in 30,000

In the wake of Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) endorsing Sen. Barack Obama, Josh Marshall writes: Endorsements don’t usually count for much. But if they’re big enough and come at critical moments they can count for a lot. And this string of endorsements Obama has picked up since his narrow defeat in New Hampshire four days ago is, I believe, a major story that has not gotten the attention it deserves. Marshall

Sens. Clinton and Obama, their supporters and the media may talking about the racial politics of Black and White, but the campaigns on the ground are focusing on what Brown can do for them. Reading Jay Cost’s otherwise fine analysis of how Clinton and Obama will battle over various voting blocs on Super-Duper Tuesday — which I highly recommend — the one omission that leapt out was the Hispanic vote.  In my

Given our esteemed host’s continuing interest in the Terrorist Surveillance Program and the recent wrangling over proposed amendments to FISA containing telecom immunity, I note the Democrats who punted the issue into 2008, would like to punt it into 2009: Faced with the growing likelihood that Congress will not meet a looming deadline to approve critical electronic-eavesdropping legislation, the Bush administration is working on a short-term fix–a temporary extension to