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

**SEE BELOW FOR POSTS THAT, MORE THAN LIKELY, HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH FILTHY POLITICS** **** You may ask: Will GIVING really stop the O! juggearnaut, Jeff? Well, probably not.

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…*

From Vets for Freedom: Dear Representative John Murtha, In May 2006, you accused a group of United States Marines of killing “innocent civilians in cold blood”. You made these allegations during an ongoing investigation. In fact, a Marine Corps spokesman said that you made your statement a week before you had even been briefed. You continued to accuse these eight Marines of “cold-blooded murder and war crimes”, even after the

A week after his last money plea, Obama asks everyone for another $5. To which I say, fuck that. Howsabout sending some of that scratch my way, instead? Anyway, my guess is O! saw last night’s Nielson numbers and is itching to turn his infomercial into a weekly sit-com — though if you ask me, to make it work he needs to introduce at least one wacky neighbor, a starry-eyed

Jules Crittenden was already leaning that way, but last night’s 30-minute infomercial cinched it: he’s going for Obama. And really, who can blame him? I mean, do any of you want to be stuck spending the next 8-10 years at that cafeteria table outpost? — the one with the fat kids, the troublingly pale chick with the veiny face and atrocious hair, and that one dude from India or some