Give us our bread and circuses, O! This race would be far more interesting with a conservative on the ticket, I think. But then, what do I know. I’m not part of the GOP elite establishment and Beltway pundit’s circuit — where McCain is seen as a “viable” candidate while Sarah Palin is viewed as “a cancer” on the party. Must be all the clinging I do to my guns

Caroline Glick, “Our World: The convenient war against the Jews”, Jerusalem Post: The anti-Semitic belief that all Jews are Zionists and therefore all Jews are fair game in the war against Israel – itself simply another round of the age-old war against the Jews – allows anti-Semites to obfuscate the fact that their anti-Israel rhetoric is simply warmed over Jew-hatred. People like Iranian leaders Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Ali Khamenei, and

David Harsanyi, Denver Post: As the economic news — fairly or not — has provided Barack Obama the momentum this past month, John McCain has decided to bring the Illinois senator’s shady associations to the forefront. This promises to be spectacularly “negative” — and even somewhat true. But will it matter? Former President Bill Clinton was recently asked by Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren: “What is the difference between an

The anti-feminist feminist harpy. From Salon: As I see it, the Palin Effect is a double-headed hydra. On one side you have Todd Palin, who is clearly a vibrant, macho force in his family’s life. Just as clearly, he has effectively embraced the role as a primary caregiver. What does it say that he and Sarah have a mutually aggrandizing partnership/marriage? A successful professional woman who embraces a masculine male

If anybody needs me, I’ll be curled up in bed. Incidentally, any of you feel like donating a decent hand gun? I’d offer to buy it outright, but unfortunately I’m putting all my money into canned soups and beans just now — and so the only protection I can offer my family is my ability to kill most people with my bare hands. But that’s always contingent on their number