is shut the f*ck up! In a showing of pro-Chinese support, hundreds of demonstrators protested outside a college arena Monday as the Dalai Lama spoke to students on solving problems through dialogue. Keep it up, morons. Oh, and f*ck the LA Times.

Karl made this excellent suggestion, that I consider “Annie Get Your Gun” for another duet between Baracky and Hillary, based on Baracky’s scoffing comments regarding Hillary’s “recollections” of hunting ducks in PA in her youth. Like Annie Oakley. With a six-shooter. Which, I have to say, is an extraordinarily sporting way of hunting ducks, especially if you do it over your shoulder while using a mirror and riding bareback, which

I think it’s a fine sort of architecture in and of itself, but given the sensitivity amongst Black Americans to such historical signifiers, isn’t it a bit tone-deaf–if not grotesque–that the Obamas should have chosen to purchase a Georgian Manse, architecturally similar to many Southern plantation homes?

After days on the campaign defensive, Democrat Barack Obama accused rival Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday of leveling criticism straight from the Republican playbook and said even so, he will win the White House over John McCain and an “out of touch” GOP. ******* Hillary Clinton today opened fire on Barack Obama.In one of her sharpest attacks of the 2008 race, Clinton blasted two mailings Obama’s campaign has put out

where it is quite dead.  Inf. XX A Muslim cleric suspected in an alleged plot to blow up New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport has been hospitalized in Trinidad after suffering a mental breakdown, his lawyer said Monday. Kareem Ibrahim has wept, rambled incoherently and often appeared agitated in recent meetings, said defense attorney Farid Scoon, who is trying to block his client’s extradition to the United States. “He has

Baldilocks notes that Mickey Kaus and many others are having difficulty figuring out why Barack Obama’s controversial comments about “small town” people lumped together things Obama wants us to think he thinks are good (religion) with things he undoubtedly thinks are bad (racism, anti-immigrant sentiment). She then observes: If you think about it, the fact that Obama lumped the perceived religion of the white, rural Pennsylvanian with “antipathy toward those not

Friend and fellow Big Green blogger Joe Malchow wins major prize: AFF AWARDS COLLEGE BLOG PRIZE: Today, AFF judges awarded $10,000 to Dartmouth University senior Joe Malchow as the winner of AFF’s College Blogger Contest. Malchow founded Dartblog. Judges awarded a second-place prize of $1,000 to the staff blog of the Oregon Commentator and third-place to Surveillance State. h/t Insty

So, how have Barack Obama’s condescending remarks about small town Pennsylvanians clinging to guns, religion, prejudice and anti-trade, anti-immigration sentiment been playing in the Keystone state?  American Research Group, which had Obama and Hillary Clinton tied in Pennsylvania in its April 5-6 poll, now has Clinton beating Obama by 20 points (57%-37%).  Moreover, the new poll was conducted Aprill 11-13, which means that ARG may have undersampled Democrats who were out clinging to their religion. Could

“Megyn, remember the bee story? Think you can ad-lib us a tease here?”Kelly looks into the camera and exclaims: “Imagine what happened when you’re driving by that truck and out come bees! Tens of thousands of bees!” She is causing quite the buzz herself. (There’s a slide show) Eh.  Here are more pics, so you don’t feel gypsied.  Yeah.  I went there.

Who will chronicle the misery of Pennsylvania’s Rust Bowl? He is trampling out the vintage Where the sour grapes are stored. Despite market woes, the Ultra-Rich spend money.  I blame Bush.  I want my Nebuchadnezzar, dammit.