An article in Knox News states baldly that there’s no reason to suspect that the church shooter was anti-Christian, per se: “It appears that church had received some publicity regarding its liberal stance,” the chief said. The church has a “gays welcome” sign and regularly runs announcements in the News Sentinel about meetings of the Parents, Friends and Family of Lesbians and Gays meetings at the church. Owen said Adkisson’s

The latest USA TODAY/Gallup Poll, showing Barack Obama ahead by 3% among registered voters, but John McCain ahead by 4% among likely voters is topping Memeorandum at the moment, in no small part because the numbers do not gibe exactly with the 8% Obama lead in the regular Gallup tracking poll for the same period.  It becomes the occasion for all sorts of ill-informed venting about polling generally, even though

Former tabloid big Bonnie Fuller notes that Camp Obama is using popular mass-media vehicles such as People, Us Weekly, The View, Access Hollywood and The Colbert Report to “present Michelle and Barack as the beloved Brangelina of the political world.”  Regular pw readers will recall that Dan and I took note of the Us Weekly cover. This strategy is worth viewing in the context of Jay Cost’s argument that the portrayal of Obama as a Messiaianic

Those are the analogies of the new ad for Mr. Hopeyness from MoveOn, which is spending $150,000 to air the ad on MTV and Comedy Central, according to a spokesman. Reportedly, the success of Comedy Central’s flagship Daily Show is based on the idea of “funny because it’s true.”  The ad seems like a natural fit.  At the very least, it is closer to the truth than MoveOn’s “General Betray Us” ad.  No wonder

Although it looks like Human Events broke the story, the Chicago Sun-Times has more details (so consider this an update to Dan’s post): Chicago Sun-Times columnist Robert Novak said today he has been diagnosed with a brain tumor but says that, “God willing,” he plans to be back at work soon. Novak said he was diagnosed Sunday with a tumor and will soon begin treatment at Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Robert Novak was admitted yesterday to a Boston hospital where he was diagnosed with a brain tumor.  In a written statement given to his publisher, Novak said: “On Sunday, July 27, I was diagnosed with a brain tumor.  I have been admitted to Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, where doctors will soon begin appropriate treatment. “I will be suspending my journalistic work for an indefinite but, God willing, not

The Wall Street Journal editorial board notices that Big Labor is oppressing the proletariat — and they are not the only ones noticing: The mighty Service Employees International Union (SEIU) plans to spend some $150 million in this year’s election, most of it to get Barack Obama and other Democrats elected. Where’d they get that much money? That’s a question the Departments of Labor and Justice are being asked to

If I live to be 80, I’d like think I’d be in a bar and if someone asked for requests from the music server, I would say something like, “Play some Metallica, you pussies.”  I might throw in a few muttered “damn punks” and “frelling kids” just to round out my curmudgeonly display.

There had been in the back of my brain this nagging sense that I recalled an analogue to Obamamania earlier in life, but I couldn’t recall what it was.  On the way to work today, I realized it was Haile Selassie I.  I don’t really know much about the man, but I recall his posture as a head of state during my childhood, and I knew that he was a religious

From Out & About, a gay-oriented newspaper, comes their version of the terrible tragedy wrought by an anti-Christian gunman at a Knoxville church.  The death toll has now reached two. Out & About’s story recasts this as a possible anti-gay hate crime because the church in question was “gay affirming.”  Among other details, we learn that the church had recently put up a sign specifically inviting gays to become parishioners, and