I mean, you’re not going to make me address these charges individually, are you?  Q: I don’t know if you’ve seen it, but it’s all over the wire today (from an ABC News story), a statement that your pastor (the Rev. Jeremiah Wright of Trinity United Church of Christ on Chicago’s South Side) made in a sermon in 2003 that instead of singing “God Bless America,” black people should sing a

Schools in areas feared to have high rates of forced marriage are refusing to display posters on the issue because they are too hard-hitting, according to a government report. Headteachers are unwilling to put up the posters for fear that they might offend some parents. The disclosure came in findings from the Department for Children, Schools and Families showing that 2,089 pupils were absent from school without explanation in 14

between Saddam and AQ nevertheless details his involvement with and support of terrorist organizations affiliated with AQ. A Pentagon review of about 600,000 documents captured in the Iraq war attests to Saddam Hussein’s willingness to use terrorism to target Americans and work closely with jihadist organizations throughout the Middle East. So, geez, Semanticleo . . . are you satisfied now?  The report also undercuts the claim made by many on the

Although I have written about the problems created by the Michigan and Florida primaries even before either took place, I have not posted much on items like the trial balloon floated past TIME’s Mark Halperin yesterday as a possible solution. The reason is is relatively simple, but best explained by two recent pieces from Real Clear Politics. Jay Cost has a new post up, explaining why neither candidate has a rational

At the Wall Street Journal, Amy Chozick had an article the other day demonstrating that Hillary Clinton — facing another must-win situation in Pennsylvania — has learned from (or is required by) the ruinous excesses that marked the start of her campaign for the Democratic nomination that organization matters: Campaign staffers say that in Pennsylvania Sen. Clinton will rely more heavily on volunteers and a more frugal, homegrown effort. “I wasn’t

in which your mouth is so preoccupied you can’t yammer forth any of this inane twaddle. (h/t Hot Air) 

Normally, I wouldn’t link to this particular site, but, well……… *

Recently, TPM’s Josh Marshall went on and on and on and on and on about the Pastor John Hagee’s endorsement of John McCain, and the need for the latter to repudiate the former. Today, Josh Marshall writes on Barack Obama’s spiritual advisor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who has been Obama’s pastor for two decades, married Barack and Michelle Obama, and who inspired the title of Obama’s book, The Audacity of

— Provided, of course, it remembered to scrub off the whore funk first. Otherwise, it would likely smell a bit like shitake mushrooms sauteed in garlic and feet.* Move along. Nothing to see here.

Scott Horton, in his latest bit of hackery on the Spitzer scandal, doubles down on his unsupported claim that Spitzer was the target of a political witch hunt by the Bush administration.  Amusingly, in attacking a New York Times op-ed by John Farmer, Horton writes: Even in defending them, Farmer acknowledges, as he must, that the conduct of the investigation failed to meet minimal professional standards. He agrees that the prosecutors filled