Obama announces plans for gravity dams, perpetual motion machines, cold fusion: U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama on Tuesday criticized his rival John McCain’s proposal to encourage the building of 45 new nuclear reactors by 2030. Obama, a Democrat, said the Republican candidate lacked a plan for storage of the waste. It was among several energy-strategy ideas that Obama said were “not serious energy policies.” Behold, the power of O! Related:

Liberace made posthumous 4-Star General. I kid! Congratulations, Gen. Dunwoody, sir! Unrelated: Mr. Edwards, wearing a bright blue polo shirt and carrying a little plastic bag, walked into the livingroom . . . Tereeeeeeeeeeeeeza Tequila Spike Lee heads to Iowa

In these circumstances, it’s amazing that George Bush decided on the surge. And looking back, one thing is clear: Every personal trait that led Bush to make a hash of the first years of the war led him to make a successful decision when it came to this crucial call. Bush is a stubborn man. Well, without that stubbornness, that unwillingness to accept defeat on his watch, he never would

Frank Luntz had an interesting piece in Sunday’s L.A. Times on what the British call “floating voters”: Right now, fully 80% of Americans give at least one of the candidates a passing or failing grade, according to polling that I’ve done — and they are breaking relatively evenly for McCain and Obama. That leaves 20% floating around like rowboats looking for a dock slip. According to the website RealClearPolitics, the average

From Jammie Fearing Wool: You may recall the very suspect noose hanging incident at Columbia University last fall revolving around Professor Madonna Constantine. From the very beginning the incident smelled incredibly fishy and the university stonewalled any real investigation from the outset, although that didn’t stop the PC mob from issuing demands before any real investigation could commence. Though lo and behold, once the incident and other matters pertaining to

NRO’s Rich Lowry observes that John McCain has been scoring some tactical victories against Barack Obama at the outset of the general election campaign, but currrently lacks what we used to call “the vision thing”: [T]here’s a sense you never know where McCain is going to be on any given day. Is he zigging toward the center, or zagging right? And on top of this, the campaign feels so defensive—all

I expect all of you who didn’t make a big deal of it then to make up for it now. (a Serr8d joint; Serr’s sent me a lot of good stuff lately that my computer woes at home have prohibited me from posting)

Upset Feds, locals, tourists.

Strikingly, but predictably, NRS does not denote lack of fact checking, stonewalling, or feckless after-the-fact lying about the reasons for having published lies. Instead, it encompasses a failure to be “liberal” enough: The number one problem facing the Democratic Party is that, as events of the last week demonstrate, it continues to be plagued by The New Republic Syndrome, one of the most fatal political afflictions that exist. In 2002

The PresidentialWatch08 map is composed of the 297 most visible and influential websites and blogs – out of a complete dataset of over 2000 sites – using Linkfluence’s proprietary crawl technology. As Ethan Zuckerman writes: “The idea here is to look at linking between political blogs in only a political context, discarding other links that are outside of context.” Protein Wisdom: Visible. Influential. Near the center of the political blogosphere. Who’da