…Otherwise, there’s just really no explanation for the lengths his campaign is going to talk around the obvious. — Well, unless we’ve been taking his whole “I’d really like to win this thing” business far too literally.

Kim Crawford, whose O’Connor-inspired post I linked here a week or so back, responds to his liberal “critics” — most notably James Wolcott and Andrew Sullivan. — Both of whom, let’s face it, are approaching the latter Truman Capote-does-the-Merv-Griffin-show-in-the-hopes-someone-of-note-will-come-to-his-parties portions of their professional lives. May their fine terrycloth housecoats absorb their weepy despair in cool cotton comfort, is all I can offer them by way of commiseration. Though in a

Give Jack Cashill credit: attempts to get him off this story by progressive “intellectuals” intent on declaring it absurd on its face have done nothing to dissuade the professor from continuing his investigation. In my first post on the subject, I noted that I was unconvinced, at least to that point, by what Cashill had uncovered. Still, were his charges true, I noted that, under the conditions of such a

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The Columbus Dispatch: The U.S. Justice Department is not expected to intervene before Tuesday’s election in a dispute about verifying new voter registrations in Ohio, Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner said today. “That is our clear understanding,” Brunner said a press conference to discuss preparations for the election. House Minority Leader John Boehner had asked the Justice Department and President Bush to seek an order to force Brunner to release

a kid’ll eat the middle of an Oreo first, and save the chocolate cookie outside for last. So he can oppress it, or dunk it in milk as a show of power. The tiny white devil… **** I admit, this one left me nearly speechless. And given my studies of racialism and structural / critical race theory, that ain’t easy to do: Hans Bader informs us that Harvard law professor

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A trenchant observation from the Corner’s John Hood: Speaking in front of a huge audience at downtown Raleigh rally yesterday, Barack Obama threw off a humorous line about John McCain’s accusation that the Obama tax plan is redistributionist: McCain has “called me a socialist for wanting to roll back the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans so we can finally give tax relief to the middle class,” Obama said.

From Rick Moran, Pajamas Media. — Whose post, it should be pointed out, may just count as reason number eleven. But go easy on Rick. Remember: fat kids, opaque girl, and the swarthy subcontinental paneer cheese cube. That could be YOU at that table, people…*