Video via Hot Air. Cautions Ed Morrissey: The ACORN connection is an interesting political story more than a financial issue now. It reveals the tactics of Obama and his allies, in a way that makes the recent story of Obama’s Truth Squad thuggery more understandable. Obama doesn’t represent a post-partisan brand of New Politics, but instead the Saul Alinsky tactics of the New Left radicalism that erupted in the 1960s.

Hmm. What to make of this: Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months, the 1st BCT will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command, as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks. It is not the first time an active-duty unit has been tapped to help at home. In August 2005, for example, when

Obama: “So Mr Ayers and I were talking to some people in the know, and I’m pretty sure we’ve figured out a way to get the toast off the plate on a technicality. As for our ‘friend’ the egg whitey omelet — well, let’s just say that a little bit of mau-mauing, some vigorous oppo research, an indictment from PETA, and our new grassroots campaign, ‘Up with Potatoes,’ will make

From American Thinker: You Tube and Warner Music Group today pulled a highly popular video that very succinctly and clearly spelled out the roots of the current economic crisis. The 9:59 video entitled “Burning Down the House: What Caused Our Economic Crisis” played four different songs under a fast moving video sequence that very clearly tied Democrats like Chris Dodd, Franklin Raines, Jim Johnson and Barack Obama to policies and

Joshua Muravchik, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, from his article in October issue of Commentary: Four years [after his 2004 DNC speech], Mr. Obama is the Democratic nominee, and even his occasional shrill attacks on his opponent seem to have chipped away little of the cornerstone of his own candidacy: the promise to bring us, all of us, together. Can he do that? Is he well-suited to raise

Mark Levin, writing at the Corner, takes issue with NRO’s own editorial on the bailout, and on opinions like those expressed by, eg, Rich Lowry. Argues Levin: From an economic perspective, if the problem is liquidity and credit, there simply is no need for the federal government to assume massive amounts of debt on its book by assuming loans in anticipation that their holders or borrowers will default. This seems

Because that would be the kind of big news not even the mainstream press could make disappear. From Instapundit: A READER AT A MAJOR NEWSROOM EMAILS: “Off the record, every suspicion you have about MSM being in the tank for O is true. We have a team of 4 people going thru dumpsters in Alaska and 4 in arizona. Not a single one looking into Acorn, Ayers or Freddiemae. Editor

— Which, from my perspective, means you can do one of two things: despair (and I’ll let Darleen guide you through that for now. Later, I’ll post something on this myself); or else put it out of your mind altogether, get yourself a pair of these, and — in about four months time — increase your vertical leap to the point where, should Obama try to fill the lane as