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July 2, 2008

Was It a Caterpillar? [Dan Collins]

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

What’s behind Obama’s faith-based initiative? [Karl]

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

Tom Maguire Interrupts Orgy [Dan Collins]

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.