Evidently, turnabout is fair play. But as Mark Coffey asks, where’s the outrage this time around? Quick thoughts: this is a political loser for the Dems. McCain spent years as POW being tortured; John Kerry, while he may or may not have thrown his Purple Hearts over the White House fence, clearly did, with Winter Soldiers, smear US troops. Discuss.

So I’m standing in the checkout line of Target today, having just picked up my prescriptions and the new Legacy Edition of Billy Joel’s The Stranger CD set, when I hear the two women in front of me talking about how “trashy” Sarah Palin is, how she comes from a “little backwater burb,” wears a “bun” and, being a “religious zealot,” is, predictably enough, “saddled with” a “gaggle of hick

Randall Kennedy, professor of law at Harvard University and the author, most recently, of “Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal,” writing in the WaPo: […] Whether black onlookers believe that this election was decided “on the real issues” and that Obama was “judged fairly” will be shaped in part by future developments, including the nature of the campaign in its closing weeks (will race-baiting intensify?) and the demographics of the

Shikha Dalmia, senior analyst at the Reason Foundation, writing in the WSJ: […]Mr. Obama’s moral vision presupposes that the key to individual advancement is securing a larger share of a fixed social pie from those who control it. This posture, relevant in premodern patronage systems, is profoundly at odds with the modern, market economy in which individuals don’t have to wrest resources from others to prosper; they have opportunities to

What do we know about Barack Obama, the earl(ier) days? Not much, save what he’s written for us in his pair of autobiographies. But even there, it seems not everyone agrees with his recollections — and didn’t in 2005, well before Barack O! was a Presidential contender. But, you know. Literary license. Self-fulfilling narrative inscription. The vagaries of memory. The incorrigibility of Truth. Hayden White knows what I’m talking ’bout.

Karl, now posting at Patterico’s (where thor isn’t, I guess) looks into the potential bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., and names names. Meanwhile, from the WSJ: By taking the rescue option off the table, the U.S. government was declaring that there are limits to its role as backstop-in-chief. A week earlier it had seized mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and months prior had brokered the sale of

Like that whole Canada / NAFTA thing, only this time dealing in lives and insinuating himself into the government of a country no one has told him he wouldn’t be running, even if elected President. BECAUSE OF THE IMPERIALISM! Amir Taheri, NY Post: While campaigning in public for a speedy withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, Sen. Barack Obama has tried in private to persuade Iraqi leaders to delay an