Posited healy, O-centric solar system in the 16th Century.

My friends are twats, and I’m in therapy.

MarkD commented this morning: Here we go again. New Jersey is just trying to knock NY out of the news. Look for a story about some NY pol with bestiality in the mix. Mmmm. Not quite: The thunderous applause was still ringing in his ears when the state’s new governor, David Paterson, told the Daily News that he and his wife had extramarital affairs. In a stunning revelation, both Paterson, 53,

Generally, I’m a fan of Pal2Pal, so I was dismayed to see that Palatine Pal posted this representation of a “Leprechaun.”   It’s ludicrous that in this day and age a person of Irish ancestry should have to suffer such a patently offensive, cartoonish and inaccurate representation of Leprechauns. I mean, have we learned nothing?

In an otherwise sensible article concerning Obama’s relation to his church, Asian Times’ Spengler reaches a strange conclusion: Obama holds his own views close. But it seems unlikely that he would identify with the ideological fits of the black-power movement of the 1960s. Maybe. Weathermen, on the other hand . . .

best served cold: I’m betting Obama is just scared to death of the great Dan Collins and his propaganda machine. 

The Wall Street Journal’s Amy Chozick looks at the efforts by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to connect with Catholic voters in Pennsylvania, noting that Catholic voters in the Democratic campaign have generally favored Clinton, even in some states she lost: Some Catholic Democrats say that Sen. Clinton’s emphasis on specific solutions is similar to Catholic social teaching, which urges its followers to use the doctrine as a way of

is that the repulsiveness of his rhetoric is made worse by the context in which it is manifested.  Let’s just take the issue of his reflections on Romans and Jews.  You might think this is evidence, despite the Reverend’s explicit stand on Israel, of a proper differentiation between between Zionists and Jews.  You’d be wrong.  The point is actually that the occupiers were responsible for Jesus’ crucifixion . . .

Geogetown Law School Prof. Neal Katyal and Richard Caplan (Class of 2007) have an article titled, “The Surprisingly Stronger Case for the Legality of the NSA Surveillance Program: The FDR Precedent” from the forthcoming issue of the Stanford Law Review available for download as an Adobe Acrobat file.  According to the abstract: This Article explains why the legal case for the recently disclosed National Security Agency surveillance program turns out to be

I dunno.  Let’s ask manliness expert, Ric Caric, maybe? What we have discovered in the last week is that the Clintons imparted lessons in our political life that have indeed taken hold. That a governor, caught in Spitzer’s scandal, would even think for a moment that he had any honorable course other than resigning, would have been regarded as astonishing even into the 1990’s. That Silda Spitzer could have urged