Erica Jong weighs in on the Democratic presidential campaign — at least that seems to be the subject of her latest wallow in the trough of identity politics.  A representative sentence: I am so sick of hearing that another pink man has dropped his children out a window, off a bridge or killed his pregnant wife or killed his unpregnant wife because he was infatuated with another pregnant woman… It is

Matt Welch of Reason magazine did a little digging and found that during the 1990’s Ron Paul generally defended and took full ownership of the racist comments published in his newsletters. At HotAir, Allahpundit notes the continuing — and increasingly silly — defenses being mounted by some Paul supporters, snarks that Paul “might as well own up and confess to having written the newsletters. They wouldn’t love him any less if he

in the service of Frodo.  Bwahaha.

HotAir has the translation of a story from Le Monde, about a threat against the Eiffel Tower, now picked up by Reuters: The newspaper said Portuguese air traffic authorities had intercepted a “vague and confused” short wave radio message apparently describing a threat on Thursday, but were not “panicked” by the message, according to a police source. Coincidentally (or not), CBSNews.com’s Tucker Reals reports from London: Recent postings on a Web forum commonly

Dan Cooper’s steamy account of working for Roger Ailes has everything. Rupert Murdoch hired Roger Ailes to brainwash America into thinking right-wing ideology is actually the political center. And he did. And, I’m ashamed to tell you, I helped him.I made a lot of money that year: 1996. I owned and loved living in an elegant cooperative apartment building on Park Avenue in Manhattan, just a few blocks from the

Superman Day Of Doom on Truther Nation [Dan Collins]

That was then: Her eyes visibly wet, in perhaps the most public display of emotion of her year-old campaign, Mrs. Clinton added: “I have so many opportunities from this country, I just don’t want to see us fall backwards. This is very personal for me — it’s not just political, it’s not just public.” Mrs. Clinton did not cry, but her quavering voice and the flash of feeling underscored the

The endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama by 2004 Democratic nominee Sen. John Kerry was met by a bipartisan negative reaction in the blogosphere, with many writing that it was meaningless and some claiming it would actually taint Obama. They have missed the point.  Some endorsements matter beyond the momentary flicker they create on television screens and computer monitors. Kerry is putting an e-mail list with millions of addresses at Obama’s disposal

Edmund Hillary, who climbed to international fame as the first person to conquer Everest, the world’s highest mountain, died Friday aged 88.  The plain-speaking former New Zealand beekeeper became a household name after he and Nepalese guide Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Everest on May 29, 1953, standing atop a peak that had defied mountaineers for decades. “Well, we knocked the bastard off,” he said on the way back

New Bond Girl, Ukrainian Bombshell Olga Kurylenko: Light my samovar, baby.