Just One Minute’s Tom Maguire flags a metaphor from Larisa Alexrandnova’s supposed rebuttal of Jonah Goldberg’s essay on Obama’s patriotism problem:: A mother of a heroin addict, for example, is critical of her child’s drug abuse and wants it to stop. The mother wants only the best for her child. Does the mother’s criticism of the child’s actions in any way illustrate that she does not love her child? On the contrary,

In the basement, the remains of a clay pipe with Masonic symbols. *SHUDDER* Meanwhile, the tit for tat nature of the sudden movement on FISA and the mortgage lender bailout is cast as a beautiful vignette in Greenwald(s)’s latest screed on the subject, where he wistfully recalls the halcyon days of yore: Just to get a flavor for how fundamental a reversal is Obama’s FISA position, here is what Obama

Barack Obama completes his week devoted to “patriotism, faith and service” with his national service proposal.  His left-leaning base will gripe over his proposal to expand military ground forces by 65,000 soldiers and 27,000 Marines — but this was already in the works. His broader approach proposes to expand AmeriCorps to 250,000 slots and double the size of the Peace Corps, integrate service-learning programs into schools and universities, expand service

I posted a minisnark regarding the kerfluffle (intentional) about Muslims not wanting to post a public service notice that contained an image of a dog, that went like this: Jackasses bark up wrong tree That was it. And here’s the (non-hysterial) response from some Canadian twit: Before the usual suspects flip out with predictable counter-outrage of their own about this, perhaps they might want to read this article from the

Rick Moran agrees with both me and Lisa regarding Clark’s comments on McCain’s military service. Dr. Helen’s woman-on-man rape post is up to about 300 comments (Related) Put a Tiger In Your Tank! (h/t Hot Air newsfeed)

and maintains it’s torture. Now, if it had been a good single malt . . .

The Politico’s David Paul Kuhn surveys the “striking level of discord and mounting criticism” of John McCain’s campaign among top GOP officials: “It’s not just message or not having just one single meta-theme to compete with Obama,” said a veteran Republican strategist with close ties to McCain’s top advisers. “It’s not just fundraising, which is mediocre. And it’s not even just organization, which is [just] starting or nonexistent in many states.” ***

A Palestinian man plowed an enormous construction vehicle into cars, buses and pedestrians on a busy street Wednesday, killing at least three people and wounding at least 45 before he was shot dead by security officers. I expect the protests to begin, presently. Senator Obama, when did you stop fisting your wife? I think this caught my eye because there’s a Playstation in it: Plea for Aid to Avert Starvation

As Jeff Zeleny and Michael Luo note in the New York Times, Barack Obama’s multi-billion dollar faith-based initiative runs the political risk of alienating his secular progressive supporters (some of whom are already smarting from Obama’s decisions to reject public financing and to support the latest bill on terrorist surveillance).  It also runs the risk of eroding his Change brand by appearing to continue a somewhat controversial Bush adminsitration policy. The

of self-congratulation, demonstrating some of the defects in a study designed to show that liberals are more open minded regarding their information sources on the internet. Besides, an objective study concludes that conservatives are better people than liberals. Patterico on blogger who walked in on Justice Kennedy with his (Kennedy’s) pants down. Obama (light)weighed in: The decision resonated in the presidential campaign, too, where Democrat Barack Obama objected to it.