Barack Obama largely dodged a question on bilingualism yesterday in Georgia by dismissing “English-only” laws and dialectically suggesting that our children need to speak Spanish,  because it’s embarrassing to him when Europeans come over here and can speak English, but we can’t speak French or German. Except he was less coherent, probably on purpose. Salon’s Andrew Leonard, anticipating the likely reaction, went on Offense for Obama: There’s nothing particularly exceptional about

Shockingly, the New York Times reports on misappropriated funds at two prominent national nonprofit groups — ACORN and the Points of Light Institute, noting a difference in how the groups dealt with their scandals: Acorn chose to treat the embezzlement of nearly $1 million eight years ago as an internal matter and did not even notify its board. After Points of Light noticed financial irregularities in early June, it took less

…Or maybe you can, I really didn’t bother to check, if you want the truth. Still, NBC’s Kenneth Strickland is reporting that Obamalot is beginning to look a lot like any other pedestrian political clubhouse, with our self-styled “progressive” hero King taking steps to insulate himself from the very kind of progressive stances that will almost certainly hurt him among moderate voters, should Maverick Johnny choose to exploit them. To

Ordered to pay $40k for filing frivolous lawsuit. Best part: Since leaving Congress in January 2003, Condit and his wife, Carolyn, relocated to Arizona. The Condit family ran two Baskin-Robbins ice cream stores, but have since been sued by the company over alleged management.[sic] A shining example of the competence of our Congresscritters. Just so you know, I DID see the possibility of the “The Scoop on Condit” title.

As a political analyst, Dick Morris is a great pollster.  However, it is worth considering his forecast of what an Obama administration would face from a Congress that will in all likelihood be more progressive, with more Democrats than it has now: Faced with the same situation in 1993, as he took office as president, Bill Clinton found no alternative but to move dramatically to the left, shelving for the moment his promises of

Today’s New York Times reports that US Senators – having spent a week of recess hearing about high fuel costs from angry and frightened consumers (and voters) – seem to be moving to break the Democratic gridlock which still seems to grip the House of Representatives. The NYT reports that a bipartisan “Gang of Ten” (first noted, afaik, at the Politico) met Tuesday morning to discuss a compromise energy plan that could be enacted

Father Jonathan outlines the contradictions: 1) In an Obama administration, the federal government would supervise the hiring process of faith-based groups to make sure they do not give preference to employees who share the faith of the organization. 2) In an Obama administration, the federal government would only give money to “secular programs” of faith-based groups. In his own words, Senator Obama explains and justifies his reforms in this way:

Making Flippy Floppy Bonus Track: Bettie Serveet’s Tom Boy

McCain wants everybody in Iran to die of lung cancer! Presidential candidate John McCain, who once sang in jest about bombing Iran, on Tuesday reacted to a report of rising U.S. cigarette exports to the country by saying it may be “a way of killing ’em.” McCain, known for acerbic comments and for sometimes firing verbally from the hip, was responding to a report that U.S. exports to Iran rose

Baracky to address Germany from Brandenburg Gate, in recognition of his efforts in Berlin Airlift, tearing down of Iron Curtain.