Gerry Geisel writes to forward this article on priorities in the Obama campaign: Police officers in Portland, Oregon, are still waiting for an apology from Barack Obama after campaign staffers of his recent rally in Portland, Oregon, setup porta potties directly on top of the Portland Police Memorial, which honors the agency’s 25 fallen police officers. The Obama rally drew a crowd of over 75,000 people. Officer Thomas Brennan, who

And the Proggs came so close to being able to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and teach Amerikkka a lesson: Liberal opinion in America and Europe may have scoffed when President Bush drew a strict moral line between order and radicalism – he even inserted into the political vocabulary the unfashionable notion of evil – but this sort of clarity is in the nature of things in that

Not just a loved companion, but a hedge against starvation in these hard times.

Hillary eyes VP slot. Okay. I said it would never happen. I was wrong. Guess that takes care of the assassination problem, eh?

Breaking at the Chicago Sun-Times and elsewhere: The firebrand pastor of St. Sabina parish was effectively removed from his duties there Tuesday, according to a statement released by the Archdiocese of Chicago. In the statement, Cardinal Francis George says he asked the Rev. Michael Pfleger, 59, to “take leave for a couple of weeks from his pastoral duties.” The statement said Pfleger “does not believe this to be the right

Hitchens on the tale of two narratives, Feith’s and McClellan’s: Feith was and is very much identified with the neoconservative wing of the Republican Party, and he certainly did not believe that Saddam Hussein was ever containable in a sanctions “box.” But he is capable of separating his views from his narrative, and this absorbing account of the interdepartmental and ideological quarrels within the Bush administration, on the Afghanistan and

take the gloves off. A new Pew Research Center poll points to a surging tide of fury, especially among white women. As recently as April, this group preferred Obama over the presumptive Republican John McCain by three percentage points. By May, McCain enjoyed an eight-point lead among white women. What’s dangerous for the Democratic Party is that, for many women, the eye of the storm has moved beyond Hillary or

Jeff Jacoby revisited: And unfortunately for Obama and his allegedly sunny politics of hope, what Mrs. Obama seems to say with grim regularity is that America is a scary, bleak, and hopeless place. Here she is, for instance, in Wisconsin: “Life for regular folks has gotten worse over the course of my lifetime, through Republican and Democratic administrations. It hasn’t gotten much better.” And in South Carolina: America is “just

Not of Obama, in this case, of whom Karl treats, below, but of Oprah.  Oso Famoso of the Catholic blog, “You Are Cephas,” describes Oprah’s endorsed spiritual practice “Gnosticism rehashed for the American housewife.” Oprah’s XM radio show is promoting a year long study into the New Age Cult Book “A Course in Miracles.” Each day for 365 days the listeners will receive one lesson from the book. For example,

Stanley Kurtz is discovering you cannot take the Trinity church out of Barack Obama: Obama shared [the Rev. Jeremiah] Wright’s rejection of black “assimilation.” Obama also shared Wright’s suspicion of the traditional American ethos of individual self-improvement and the pursuit of “middle-classness.” In common with Wright, Obama had deep misgivings about America’s criminal justice system. And with the exception of their direct attacks on whites, Obama largely approved of his