In response to questions I posed in the previous thread, thor chides: This thread is about the evil radicalism that hibernates in Obama’s dark heart. We all know it’s there so we remind ourselves of his inner-evilness just so we know we know. Cartoon it all you’d like, but the thread is about how much of Obama’s early ideological training — bolstered and finessed by his associations (Wright, Ayers, et

Melanie Phillips on Obama and tranformational Marxism: In her game-changing convention speech, Sarah Palin took a swipe at Obama for having been nothing more in his life than a ‘community organiser’. This prompted the Obama campaign to issue a pained defence of community organisation as a way of promoting social change ‘from the bottom up’. The impression is that community organising is a worthy if woolly and ultimately ineffectual grassroots

No need to worry, O!. We’ve got it all under control.**

It’s almost surreal, frankly: Lowel-drenched elitists — in this particular case, a tricked-out version of Mark-Paul Gosselaar whose intellectual bona fides lay in writing himself as a troubled genius — being unable to control themselves, so perplexing do they find the idea of an Alaskan governor and self-styled “hockey mom” running as VP. And yet these are the same plastic “activists” who have no noticeable “concerns” over a one-term Senator

Or, better — wow.*

Once you’ve lost the Rosie vote, you’ve pretty much lost the election. — If, of course, the election happens to be for “people who you’d least like to have show up at one of your parties, no matter how many boxes of Dunkin’ Munchkins or how many 64oz bottles of A&W rootbeer she has her personal assistant schlep up the stairs and lay out on the buffet table.”

Well, it could be anyone — Ferraro? Hillary? — but my bet is on Camille Paglia, who persists in being that irritating piece of corn caught in the molars of the progressive vagina dentata: Perhaps Palin seemed perfectly normal to me because she resembles so many women I grew up around in the snow belt of upstate New York. For example, there were the robust and hearty farm women of

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From UC-San Diego Professor of economics, Garey Ramey, via email: Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin has been criticized for lying in connection with terminating Alaska’s “Bridge to Nowhere” project. This charge, however, reflects widespread misunderstanding as to the nature of the infrastructure budgeting process. While the U.S. Congress did reverse its 2005 decision that had earmarked $223 million for the bridge project, the project itself was not removed from