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July 2008

David Thompson on Chavaquiddick [Dan Collins]

David has a rather more perspicacious critique than mine from yesterday evening, which you can find here.

Notes on the strange NYT poll [Karl]

The analysis piece accompanying the latest New York Times/CBS News election poll — taken in conjunction with the questionnaire – is fairly obvious about the angle the Grey Lady intended to pursue from the outset: Americans are sharply divided by race heading into the first election in which an African-American will be a major-party presidential nominee, with blacks and whites holding vastly different views of Senator Barack Obama, the state of race relations

Purging Pat Buchanan [Karl]

LGF’s Charles Johnson is supporting an effort to have Townhall.com disassociate itself from a recent Pat Buchanan column asserting that “Israel and its Fifth Column in this city seek to stampede us into war with Iran.”   The Anti-Idiotarian Rotweiler, and doubleplusundead are joining LGF in purging Townhall.com from their lists of news sources, over that column and another suggesting that the Holocaust — like WWII — was ultimately the fault of the West, particularly Britain.  This is also

JibJab: Time for some campaignin’ [Karl]

With a Unicorn. And just a glimpse of a Silky Pony.

John Amato: Why I Never Learned Italian [Dan Collins]

What a boob: I always wanted to be fluent in another language. I studied Spanish in school, passed my HS Regents exam back in the day, but never got it down. I never learned Italian because of the racism that my grandparents faced when they came to the US in 1915. Studying a new language in school actually helps a person “think” better as far as I’m concerned. Maybe that’s

Obama to New Yorker: I Most Certainly Am Not [Dan Collins]

one of those wonderful people you’ve insulted: Democrat Barack Obama said Tuesday that the New Yorker magazine’s satirical cover depicting him and his wife as flag-burning, fist-bumping radicals doesn’t bother him but that it was an insult to Muslim Americans. “You know, there are wonderful Muslim Americans all across the country who are doing wonderful things,” the presidential candidate told CNN’s Larry King. “And for this to be used as

What Word? [Dan Collins]

The word ‘chav’ is a weapon of class hatred and should be banned, Left-wing academics claim. The Fabian Society believes the term, a common derogatory expression for a brash white working-class person, is offensive. It wants to silence those who use it to describe loutish types in Burberry baseball caps, scraped-back hairdos and clanking fake gold ‘bling’ jewellery. The obnoxious teenage single mother Vicky Pollard, played by Matt Lucas in

Anne Elk: War in Iraq a Dangerous Distraction [Dan Collins; UPDATE]

Sen. Barack Obama called the war in Iraq a “dangerous distraction” Tuesday and said more emphasis must be placed on the battle in Afghanistan. Sen. Barack Obama said he would take the country in a new direction, should he become president. “As should have been apparent to President Bush and Sen. [John] McCain, the central front in the war on terror is not Iraq, and it never was,” Obama said

Burge on Freddie & Fannie; Hitchens on Satire [Dan Collins]

and humor. Submerged Burge Urges Bailout

Reynolds on Vaccine Denial [Dan Collins]

Insty’s meaty piece in Popular Mechanics.