Halfrican presidential candidate’s appearance compared to . . . Curious George!!!1!! on Rush Limbaugh!!!1!! right-wing noise machine by child of winger!!!1!! ABC News’ Tahman Bradley Reports Squeals: Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh issued an on-air apology to Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., today after a caller said her daughter thought the Democratic presidential frontrunner looked like the cartoon character Curious George, a monkey. Limbaugh, who laughed at the caller’s comments,

Hillary Clinton’s comment that presumed GOP nominee John McCain has more experience than her Democratic rival, Barack Obama — combined with her going nuclear with the “3 a.m. phone call” ad as her ’08 odds sink– has strange bedfellows like Kathryn Jean Lopez at NRO and left-liberals at OpenLeft wondering what her real motivation is. Maybe she is a Unifier!

Brett Favre has decided to retire from the NFL after 17 seasons. As a Packers fan, I’m a little heartbroken.  Mostly, though, I’m grateful for all the fun.  Thanks, Brett.

All-too-familiar story: In “Love and Consequences,” a critically acclaimed memoir published last week, Margaret B. Jones wrote about her life as a half-white, half-Native American girl growing up in South-Central Los Angeles as a foster child among gang-bangers, running drugs for the Bloods. Margaret B. Jones is a pseudonym for Margaret Seltzer, who is all white and grew up in the well-to-do Sherman Oaks section of Los Angeles, in the

Via Kathy Shaidle via Sondra K via Pat Riotic comes this tale of colossal jackassery: A former attorney general and human rights commission chairman is claiming that unborn children in the earliest stages of development are not human, and are in fact chimpanzees. Dr. Jorge Carpizo McGregor claims that “for the topic of abortion, there are very important scientific advances that prove that the DNA of chimpanzees is 99 percent

By now you may have heard all the buzz about Barack Obama aborting yesterday’s press conference once it became clear that the assembled reporters wanted to ask about the Goolsbee flap and the Rezko trial, instead of hopeyness and changitude.  Or you may have seen the video. Ed Morrissey, among others, noted the contrast with how the legendarily temperamental John McCain handled his press conference about the bogus NYT sex innuendo

At OpenLeft, Chris Bowers again projects delegate counts for the remainder of the Democratic campaign, which has Hillary Clinton behind Barack Obama by roughly 180 delegates (not counting Puerto Rico, which should be a net gain for Clinton, though nowhere near enough). A RCP, Jay Cost outlines how Clinton could stake a “moral claim” to the nomination outside the delegate count: The most persuasive method is to count the votes. This is why

…but can the new Messiah pull off a crippling step-over toe hold? A well-timed heel hook? A reverse nelson arm lock? No. No he can not. — And yet the sonofabitch has designs on the presidency. And beatitude. The arrogance! At any rate, I know some of you here are involved in martial arts. So if you’re looking to improve your ground fighting — and you want to introduce something

The often insightful Marc Ambinder thinks that Hillary Clinton’s apparent intent to stay in the race if  she wins the popular vote in Ohio and Texas “will make heads explode in Chicago.” Ambinder need not worry – Camp Obama probably figured that out already.

Michael Goldfarb has the better title, but as the battle over the expired eavesdropping law moves toward a conclusion giving phone companies legal protection from lawsuits for cooperating with the government after 9/11, the reaction of Rick Ellensburg is revealing: There’s very little point anymore in writing about how the Congressional Democratic leadership is complicit in all of the worst Bush abuses, or about how craven they are. All of that is far too