At Ace of Spades HQ, Dave in Texas flags news from the Exxon Mobil shareholders’ meeting: Exxon Mobil Corp. chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson will retain both of those jobs at the world’s biggest publicly traded oil company after a highly public, Rockefeller-led push to separate the roles that failed again Wednesday. *** That said, none of the 17 shareholder proposals considered at the three-hour meeting received enough support to

Barack Obama’s camapign has yet to follow through with information on Obama’s health and medical history – which apparently will be a doctor’s note, rather than the massive medical records dump John McCain did last week (showing him to be in good health). At the Politico, Jeff Stier, an anti-smoking zealot associate director of the American Council on Science and Health, estimates that Obama has smoked between 50,000 and 70,000 cigarettes, which

Former Boston Globe columnist Mike Barnicle, appearing on some cable show called “Morning Joe” with Washington Post editorial writer Jonathan Capehart, had the following to say about candidate gaffes: What about this theory, Jonathan, about, you know, the Auschwitz-Buchenwald flap, whatever, John McCain’s misspeaking in Iraq. Shiite, Sunni. What about the theory that we in the news media have taken ourselves so seriously, because of this 24-hour news cycle that

Obama’s new spot features him speaking — quite respectably — in Spanish to deliver an economic message to Puerto Ricans, and mentioning that he was born on an island too. Dude, you’re blowing my mind!!!

Fundy Xians riot, kill imams, set synagogues on fire.

Michelle Malkin, Jake Tapper, Michael Goldfarb, Gateway Pundit and Jammie Wearin’ Fool have been among those logging Barack Obama’s ever-growing list of gaffes. Most such pieces may describe this or that gaffe as more serious than another, but in assessing Obama’s gaffes, lists mixing the trivial with the serious risk trivializing the serious or creating the impression that people are piling on innocuous missteps on Obama’s part.  Accordingly, I offer

an imaginary Soviet. Why the hell can’t the Dems give us any candidates who aren’t compulsive (and rather stupid) liars? UPDATE: Just for the howls, I’m going to dub this restructuring of reality “barrystroika.” Also, you can consider this as supplementary to Karl’s post, above.

Here’s a list of this summer’s blockbuster wannabes, and if anything, it looks worse than usual.  Setting aside the few that already have been released, feel free to prognosticate which will be the greatest craptacle of all.

Moreover, The New Yorker’s George Packer does so in a way that makes Andrew Sullivan a little uncomfortable: He is, in the terms of my article, a purist rather than a reformist, but his unhappiness with the movement is so great that it’s driven him into the arms of his exact opposite, Barack Obama, who is philosophically liberal and temperamentally conservative. Excitable Andy responds: It’s a little hard to know

Manifest Destiny meets Quantum Leap, as pw heads back to his childhood home of Baltimore, then to Maryland’s eastern shore, for a week of extra-large mosquitoes; overly officious, gardenia-scented relatives; sandy-crotched Mossimo bathing suits; imported blue crab; and — if everything goes as planned — some giant stuffed animal of as yet undetermined genus to be poached and dragged screaming back here to the mountains, earned by way of a