History teacher from Millsaps College cites Gnostic gospels to prove God is metrosexual or bulldyke, or both. Pope owes it to American people to genuflect to sacred progressivism.

I cannot invent this variety of assertion: What could have possessed Prime Minister Maliki to rush headlong into a battle he was thoroughly unprepared for? The Bush Administration has responded with certainty about only one thing: they were not involved in the planning. But former CIA analyst Ray McGovern says that Maliki “can’t scratch his nose without asking Petraeus to make sure there aren’t extra body guards around,” much less

Oh, there we are.

TNR’s John Judis, while buying into the Frankian false consciousness thesis debunked earlier today, has some decent explanation of why — even before he uttered his infamous words about these voters “clinging” to guns, religion, and prejudice, Obama looked vulnerable in the heartland states, particularly among white working class voters.  In particular, Judis notes that historically, Democrats have been able to win over these voters in campaigns where there was: (1) an “Unacceptable Republican,” seen as

From the Food Network (the multi-talented Giada de Laurentis, among others):

Except for veteran Shepard Smith, there is no next-generation breakthough talent in the Fox stable. I mean, have they seen Megyn Kelly?  I mean, she’s no Liz Stephans, but . . .

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We all know why Obama spoke the way he did on Monday. The forces transforming the American economy are big and hard to control. If you think your listeners aren’t sophisticated enough to grasp them, it’s much easier to blame those perfidious foreigners for all economic woes. It’s much more heroic to pretend that, by opposing Nafta, you can improve the lives of middle-class voters. Furthermore, these trade deals have

At the WaPo, E.J. Dionne unloads the usual liberal conventional wisdom regarding Barack Obama’s condescending view that small town residents are bitter and cling to guns, religion and prejudice due to the last 25 years of US economic policy: If Obama’s comments about working-class voters had come from the mouth of anyone except a candidate, they might have seemed mildly controversial but broadly true. Dionne’s fellow columnist Richard Cohen has been tougher on Obama