According to the Washington Post’s Eli Saslow and Hamil R. Harris, the people Barack Obama shared pews with at Trinity United Church of Christ feel “marginalized” in the wake of the controversy over the church (though what the WaPo marginalizes is its black liberation theology). Most do not blame Obama, natch — they blame the media and political attacks.  It is a reaction that suggests that they have not looked into

Though I am not keen on horserace polls, the latest Gallup tracking poll is notable in two respects.  First, there is the dead-cat bounce Barack Obama got from locking up the Democratic nomination, as the race settles back toward a statistical tie. Second, Gallup notes that: Although the margin between Obama and McCain is now similar to what it was in the last few weeks of the Democratic primary race,

What every dad wants for Father’s Day. (a Serr8d joint)

I can’t think of a better subject for this Father’s Day than Warren Zevon, since he was the perfect example of how not to be a father.  I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead  is his story, as written by once and future wife Crystal Zevon.  It’s an entertaining read about a complex and troubled man, and as you might imagine, it elicites an equally complex reaction, at least in this reader.  As

What could be more objective than a chart that plots major websites on a horizontal axis of scurrility-earnestness, and a vertical one of opinion-news? One conservative site, Instapundit, squeaks into the intersection of the news/earnest quadrant. (h/t Hot Air headlines)

It starts in his home state of Illinois, as Alec MacGillis reports for the Washington Post: Obama’s advisers have pointed to his success in winning over “downstate” Illinoisans as a sign of his electability, but political analysts question the claim. Obama lost most of downstate Illinois in his Democratic primary race for U.S. Senate in 2004, and his big win in the general election that year came against Alan Keyes,

E.J. Dionne thinks that the recent shift in party identification favoring the Democrats “could prove the defining fact in November.”  Yuval Levin agrees that the trend is trouble for the GOP.  However, he notes that while Democrats now outnumber Republicans 37 to 28 percent, the GOP has only been above 28 percent in one presidential election year since 1968; that was in 2004.  Levin adds that party ID statistics themselves

Mr. Green Genes returns to the big screen — is it a smash?