Amanda at ThinkProgress leads the blog buzz with her story of Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) belittling a US soldier in Iraq as a “two-bit security guard.”  The Leftosphere is on code red high dudgeon alert, mostly of the “imagine if a Democrat had said this” variety. One problem: it appears that the person McHenry called a security guard was in fact a security guard, not a soldier.  While it is possible that

Yesterday’s discussion of John McCain’s biography tour ended up containing a rather large musical digression, which revealed that I am not the only PW regular with a fondness for the late, lamented Beat Farmers and its equally late, lamented co-founder — the fantastic Country Dick Montana. To paraphrase Mae West, when this band was good it was very good — but when it was bad it was better.  Unfortunately, there seems to

Although the Boston Globe is overstating it as a “sign that John McCain is moving toward accepting public financing this fall,” he is clearly leaving the door open to it by returning about $3 million to general election contributors and asking them to write new checks to the campaign’s legal and accounting expense fund. The Globe, as well as outlets like TPM, imply that the move suggests McCain cannot compete with either of the Democratic

In his latest follow-up to Mukasey’s comments, Gleen(s) state the following: This morning I interviewed Kate Martin, the director of the Center for National Security Studies and one of the nation’s foremost surveillance experts. She pointed out that even prior to 9/11, the NSA commonly intercepted international communications into the U.S. and — in numerous, broadly defined circumstances — was authorized to disseminate what they learned to the FBI and

Krauthammer:  This invitation to move on, as it were, has been widely accepted. After the speech it became an article of faith that even referencing Wright’s comments was somehow illegitimate, the new “Swift-boating.” It is not just that Obama surrogate Rep. George Miller denounced the Clinton campaign for bringing up Wright when talking to superdelegates as trying to “work the low road.” You expect that from a campaign. Or that

Well, we all shine on, Pretty much, except for the evil Zionists . . . A site that I only know because they linked to us, named Crimes and Corruptions of the New World Order News, has a post called “Swindler’s List” that quotes an article from the Arabic Internet Media Network that poses the question: “Would the Zionists be open to become ordinary human beings like the rest of us?” Among

Mayor of London, defends the human dignity of vegetables: Ken Livingstone admitted last night that he had five children by three different women – two daughters by one woman and a son by another, in addition to the two children with his current partner, Emma Beale. The Mayor of London’s confirmation, after an investigation by the BBC, is likely to defuse tabloid reports about his private life. The disclosure is

LEAVE NISHI ALONE!!!

I don’t think I’ve ever seen the concepts “breathtaking” and “irrelevant” yoked with such peculiar force before: Our revulsion at Mosley’s behaviour is breathtakingly irrelevant. I am repulsed by homosexuality – in the strict sense that I feel nauseous at the thought of personally engaging in gay sex – but that is not sufficient reason to condemn gay men. Disgust carries not a shred of moral or legal force when

Boyfriend of Ugg boot train death woman charged I  think that’s going to be hard to beat.  I’d love to hear “The Ballad of Boyfriend of Ugg Boot Train Death Woman” performed. Never mind.