White Christians are “make pretend” believers and conservative Christians emulate the people who killed Jesus, according to articles in a controversial magazine run by Sen. Barack Obama’s longtime pastor that paint traditional Christianity as false and racist.Stanley Kurtz, a National Review Online contributor, concluded after reviewing two years of Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Trumpet Magazine that the Trinity United Church of Christ pastor practices a black liberation theology brand of Christianity

that stating the truth about liars doesn’t constitute libel: Israel Radio’s Paris correspondent Gil Michaeli has just reported that the French Court of Appeals has overturned the libel judgment against Phillipe Karsenty and has determined that Karsenty did not libel France 2 correspondent Charles Enderlin when he reported that the ‘death’ of 12-year old Mohamed Al-Dura at Netzarim in the Gaza Strip in September 2000 may have been staged, and

Reuters ran a story Sunday that largely slipped beneath the radar: Democrat Barack Obama said on Sunday he would pursue a vigorous antitrust policy if he becomes U.S. president and singled out the media industry as one area where government regulators would need to be watchful as consolidation increases. “I will assure that we will have an antitrust division that is serious about pursuing cases,” the Illinois senator told an

There is some buzz in the Rightosphere suggesting that the crowd for Barack Obama’s big weekend rally in Portland was inflated by his warm-up act, an indie rock band called The Decemberists.  NewsBusters and Michael Goldfarb likely overstate the band’s draw, even for a free show in their hometown, while TIME’s Ana Marie Cox likely understates it. NRO’s Jim Geraghty is probably closest to the mark; the band was likely a boost,

Bush’s fault. Unrelated: Pucked up Robert Pedersen on “Get Off the Bench” radio show this evening (deals with judicial reform issues).

Instapundit Glenn Reynolds seemed to “enjoy” the story of Chicago Alderman Dick Mell, who forgot to re-register his arsenal of weapons as required by city ordinance, then “quietly introduced an ordinance that would reopen gun registration in Chicago and create a one-month amnesty for himself and other gun owners in the same predicament.” But that is just the tip of Dick Mell.  His son-in-law just happens to be Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.  Okay,

I have no words for this. OTOH, she shows some improvement. More ridiculous? B-B-B-Barry and the Jews NYT editors snooze: McCain may not be just older, but wiser; long-standing strange cultural ideas may have merit. The Black Crows : The Black Seminoles

explains that his words are subject to misinterpretation, Bush’s are not. “Cold-blooded killers” unleashed upon America by “hounds” of war are those in his administration “who may someday be charged with war crimes,” presumably by the sorts of agencies capable of ham-sandwich indictment that have nothing better to do than send an inspector to the United States to investigate charges of racism. At long last, Mr. Douchebag, have you lost

For your halftime entertainment between tonight’s big Democratic electoral tussles in Kentucky and Oregon (hah), here is a brief observation of what the Gallup tracking poll(s) say about the current state of the presidential race. Despite the telephone polling from Kentucky showing a large number of Democrats willing to vote for John McCain over Barack Obama, the Gallup tracking poll data so far shows not only that Obama has opened up a 16-point

Seriously. How can anyone above the age of 18 — or who isn’t still a member of the Buffalo Springfield (or Nena, for that matter) fan clubs — support a man who, when he bothers to say anything substantive, shows himself to be so completely out of touch with the Anglosphere’s best interests that its a wonder he’s able to deliver his lines in English. Let’s cut through the tonal