tell you if your sin’s original. Gateway Pundit notes this: “Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America’s improbable experiment in democracy. Farmers and scholars; statesmen and patriots who had traveled across an ocean to escape tyranny and persecution finally made real their declaration of independence at a Philadelphia convention

h/t Spies, Brigands and Pirates

Derbyshire notes some inaccuracies, and agrees with Karl that it was condescending. Taranto‘s piece is substantive.  Allah Pundit on Barack’s reaction to Imus’s Nappyheadedhogate: Hail he of the immaculate standards for associating with racists!  In an interview with ABC News Wednesday afternoon, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., called for the firing of talk radio host Don Imus. Obama said he would never again appear on Imus’ show, which is broadcast on CBS

Shannon Elizabeth competes on tonight’s installment of Dancing with the Stars.

Earlier today, Barack Obama gave a major speech, ostensibly to to contain the damage from noxious and hateful comments made by his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.  The first notable aspect of the speech is how little of the speech was actually devoted to the controversy surrounding Wright, Obama’s church and its theology.  Indeed, almost everything Obama said about Wright merely repeated Obama’s prior defenses, with a notable exception which will be explored shortly. The

[T]he most honest speech on race in America in my adult lifetime. It is a speech we have all been waiting for for a generation.  Ewwww.  A little too excitable.C’mon, what’s this going to go down in history as?  The Ashley Speech?  Gettyfuckinsburg it ain’t. New discovery might lead to the creation of a more perfect onion. Lowry is calling this “The Throw Your Grandmother Under the Bus” Speech.  I

If, like me, you can’t view or listen to it, Drudge has the transcript. It’s a movingly schmaltzy piece.  It may do the trick for him.  Here’s the Grand Finale: There is a young, twenty-three year old white woman named Ashley Baia who organized for our campaign in Florence, South Carolina. She had been working to organize a mostly African-American community since the beginning of this campaign, and one day

Want to know when Chester became such a jerkoff.

Terry Sanderson, president of the National Secular Society, which represents the interests of atheists and agnostics, said that studies purporting to show a link between happiness and religion were “all meaningless“. Naturally.  Journalists search for meaning: Indeed, 55 percent of the national press corps said business and financial woes were the most important problem in journalism today, up from 30 percent four years ago. Twenty-two percent cited the quality of

Actual headline: Gov. Paterson admits to sex with other woman for years Great.  New York’s first black, blind, bearded lesbian Governor.