being held by Murietta cops.

Camp Obama finally announced they raised $52 million in June — a bit short of the $100 Million June some supporters had been hyping.  I had thought that the previously leaked $30 million June figure could be a head fake, but the official number is not much better than Kerry did four years ago — and he sewed up his nomination earlier.  Moreover, the Politico’s Ben Smith reports that “[i]n

At NRO, Michael Knox Beran gives his take on John McCain’s love for Teddy Roosevelt.  Although I have previously noted TR’s progressivism, Beran argues that TR was neither conservative nor progressive: [I]f Roosevelt was not a capitalist, neither was he deeply or sincerely a Progressive. He was a man of the state. Robert La Follette perceived the falseness of his reformist strutting: “Theodore Roosevelt is the ablest living interpreter of

Yesterday, NYT columnist Thomas L. Friedman noted that for all of the polls documenting the decline in American popularity around the world under President Bush, people in those countries might want to consider the alternative — a world of too much Russian and Chinese power. Glenn Greenwald (a/k/a “Rick Ellensburg,” “Thomas Ellers,” “Ellison,” “Wilson” and “Ryan”) flailed at Friedman with his typically overwrought prose, arguing that the US is unpopular because it enagaged in unprovoked wars

The Associated Press reports on Barack Obama’s desire to secure all loose nuclear material during his first term and to rid the world of nuclear weapons, as he warned his audience of the danger of “fighting the last war.” This from the candidate who constantly reminds us he opposed the last war — making his 2002 speech opposing it the totem representing his “judgment to lead.”  Of course, he might be

For someone who does not like horserace poll coverage, I seem to be writing about them today.  Had I seen the ABC News/WaPo poll last night, I could have included it in my post on the NYT/CBS poll, but there are some nuggests to be gleaned here beyond the horserace. HotAir’s Ed Morrissey notes the Democratic skew in the sample, but the 13%-14% gap is not much more than the 8.5

‘Stop telling niggers what to do.’ Hoo boy! I’m not getting involved in this! Nosiree! UPDATE: I’m anticipating outrage about this later from the usual quarters after Dr. Caric runs off to leftyland to squeal, so I’ll just note that I don’t put quotation marks around it, and that if you have a problem with this you might go get a look at this. Others blogging: American Power, This Ain’t

Love this lede: A 33-year-old Michigan man is accused of wearing a “World’s Greatest Dad” shirt to a meeting for sex with what he thought was a 14-year-old girl. Well, that . . . that is rather awful . . . I suppose. h/t Hot Air Headlines

TPM’s Greg Sargent reports that Barack Obama’s campaign is miffed with The New York Times this morning over the paper’s analysis of its own poll, complaining that the analysis overlooks much of the poll data that suggests Obama is doing pretty well with white voters. Given that I wrote much the same early this morning, I obviously agree with the Obama campaign’s argument.  However, the fact that the Obama campaign is going after

Men are likely to give in to the temptations of a beautiful woman while women work hard to resist the charms of a handsome man, a new study claims. The research found that even men who say they are committed to their wives and girlfriends are vulnerable to the advances of a flirt. By contrast, women naturally see attractive single men as a potential danger and are less receptive to