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1. First off, today is picture day for my son’s pre-K class. So if I’m not around much it’s because I’m off hemming his sheet and starching the hood. O! How the whiteness glistens! 2. The Big Lie strategy — which I picked up on earlier but which now can be found in greater numbers, expressed with an almost surrealistic candor by those pretending to be champions of principle —

Yet more…

…on Sarah Palin’s libertarian governing style. Bonus: Seems the GOP establishment in AK hates Palin almost as much as establishment feminists do. Good sign, you ask me.

my second brief conversation with the ghost of Isaac Hayes

me: “So. Like, this must be a really exciting time for you — what with Barack Obama a heartbeat away from becoming President of the United States.” Ghost of Isaac Hayes: “Man, Barack Obama don’t represent me.” me: “Really? Wow. I mean, you don’t know how happy it makes me to hear you say that — to see somebody of your bona fides bucking the trend of identity politics. Like

Palin’s libertarianism: how to be socially conservative and still govern from libertarian principles

From David Harsanyi, writing for RCP: Palin, for example, vetoed 300 pork projects in Alaska in her first year in office. She made a habit of knocking out big-government Republicans in her brief political career. For this, the 44-year-old mother of five enjoys a sterling approval rating in a state with arguably the nation’s most libertarian-minded populace. When it comes to healthcare, Palin says she wants to “allow free-market competition

This should play well with the parents of teenagers…

Partial transcript from Larry King last evening, featuring liberal radio host Ed Schultz and Republican Moderate, former Rep Susan Molinari: KING: Ed — we haven’t heard from Ed in a minute. Ed? SCHULTZ: I don’t think Governor Palin could get 40 million viewers on TV. So – she’s got to raise the bar when it comes to interest. Half the country doesn’t even know who she is. And, Larry, I

Context. Nuance. Narrative.

Via alppuccino: “Juno” also shares with “Knocked Up” an underlying theme, a message that is not anti-abortion but rather pro-adulthood. It follows its heroine — and by the end she has earned that title — on a twisty path toward responsibility and greater self-understanding. This is the course followed by most coming-of-age stories, though not many are so daring in their treatment of teenage pregnancy, which this film flirts with

Obammy and the jets

RTO performs the admirable task of gathering up Barack Obama’s shifting statements on the “surge” strategy so that you — and of course, the mainstream press, bless their busy beaver hearts! — don’t have to. But then, it was never your job. The legacy media, on the other hand…? Well, they have more pressing issues to look into. Like, for instance, “does using leet speak and the self-descriptive and boisterously

A message from THE ONE

Dear Friends and supporters: We here in Obamalot encourage that you kindly refrain from attacks on Bristol Palin and Sarah Palin, specifically when it comes to issues relating to their families. We’ve done some asking around, you see, and such a strategy is unlikely to hurt Senator McCain with his base — and may actually help him with both undecideds and people with, like, souls. So we ask that you

Hillaryites scorned

An interesting thread at the Hillary Clinton forum that could provide some insight into how the Obama campaign burned a few electoral bridges: We watched in horror as you told your base that they were no longer needed and that we could just “stay home”. We watched in stunned outrage when you were silent on sexism and propelled the race card. You called us uneducated, old, blue collar, gun toters,

Breeders breeding breeders: will this horror never end?

Darleen has already noted the release of the story, by the McCain campaign, that Bristol Palin, the 17-year-old daughter of Gov. Sarah Palin, is pregnant and will marry the father of the child. But here’s the interesting bit, politically speaking. From Reuters: Senior McCain campaign officials said McCain knew of the daughter’s pregnancy when he selected Palin last week as his vice presidential running mate, deciding that it did not