Feministe and Pandagon readers simultaneously terrified, a little thrilled. From the WSJ: The likely Democratic presidential nominee will need to win over the female voters who rallied behind Sen. Clinton during the prolonged and often heated primary. Before claiming the nomination, Sen. Obama showed strong support among affluent whites and African-American voters, but struggled to gain the backing of older and working-class women in some states. On Feb. 5, or

Over interest rate paid for mortgage, stating that it’s outside the survey guidelines. I think it’s petty. If you want to file a complaint, file it about Dingy Harry’s land deals.

Sean Oxendine and others are speculating that Brack Obama’s fundraising may be petering out.  I think it highly unlikely that John McCain will somehow have outraised Obama in June, though I could easily see them falling short of the prior $100 million dollar hype. Their speculation, however, triggered a bit of my own.  Web traffic to Obama’s site has been tailing off and is currently at a six-month low.  The

Media Matters hacks David Brock and Paul Waldman have written a book arguing that the establishment media has always given John McCain a “free ride,” which appears to be a theme that Waldman, ThinkProgress, TPM’s Josh Marshall and others in the proggosphere are carrying into the current campaign, claiming that the establishment media is unfairly favoring McCain over Barack Obama. The Associated Press seems to be the favored target to date,

Pamela Anderson stages KFC protest in Australia: “I’ve been in Australia filming Big Brother House, in which my housemates and I are confined and sealed off from the outside world, much like the chickens who are crammed inside barns for KFC,” she said in the letter, which was released by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). Poor Barb Wire! I dig breast meat, but I’ve never really considered

The sort of protest I’m sure that she would not have felt so free to perform under Saddam’s reign, don’t you think? The sort of protest it’s almost impossible for NPR’s listenership to grasp the shockery of. So, bravo! Warning: not safe for dhimmis

With such bureaucrats in it! A disabled foster child whose liver is failing has been removed from a Central Florida hospital’s organ-transplant waiting list because hospital administrators fear the state’s shaky child-welfare system cannot ensure he has a permanent home in which to recover. Shands Hospital in Gainesville removed the boy, 15, from a waiting list for organ recipients after administrators determined the boy’s unstable living conditions make him a

Respect for foreign cultures and their sometimes alien norms. A comic-book character popular in Mexico for generations has run into a cultural barrier at the border, where Americans see him as a racist caricature. Comic book character Memin Pinguin is “a disgrace,” an African-American activist says. For more than 60 years Mexicans have followed the adventures of “Memin Pinguin.” But the dark-skinned Memin’s exaggerated features in “Memin for President” came

Unpack this jive at leisure, baby: Apparently unaware of a hot microphone, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr., founder and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, made a crude and disparaging remark along the lines of wanting to rip Obama’s genitals off in reference to how Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., might be alienating African-Americans with various moral instructions. Jackson has issued this apology, saying: “For any harm or hurt that this

Malkin Award Nominee 09 Jul 2008 04:12 pm “[The progressive Democrats’ position on Iraq] was and is a craven, reprehensible act of cowardice, mirroring the shameful behavior of the Copperhead Democrats 140 years earlier who wanted to abandon Blacks to slavery in the South to sue for peace in the U.S. Civil War. The Copperheads of today’s Democratic Party color themselves “progressives” for championing the abandonment of a group of