allegedly some kind of rough-sex alterasphixiation freakaziod.

Gee, it’s really terrible the way Eric Holder’s statements on race have been taken out of context and twisted: President Barack Obama has waded again into the fractious issue of race relations in America, this time to tamp down a firestorm over remarks by his top law enforcement officer.”I’m not somebody who believes that constantly talking about race somehow solves racial tensions,” the president said in an interview with The

over Rush, and of the recent unpleasantness, is available at the Sundries Shack. At Cold Fury, Noel’s post goes through some of the memorable arguments from the principals. Also soliciting recipes for a Stern (or Stiff, if you prefer) Cockpunch, so that Jeff can serve that up for y’all in Chicago. Rahm Emanuel: Stop them, with every means in my power! Donald Douglas has a post up with a link

Dodd makes Emanuel look like a piker: It takes considerable political skill for a U.S. senator to win a presidential pardon for a friend without the traditional review by the Justice Department. Sen. Christopher Dodd moved the furtive levers of power in 2001 for Edward R. Downe, convicted of tax and securities fraud eight years before. A man will do a lot for a former real estate partner. It was

because they were exhausted. Burning the candle at both ends, while Rome burns, our new Preznit Narcissus really puts the party first. Mark Steyn on related. (h/t Hot Air headlines) Smoke ’em while you’ve got ’em, I guess. So here’s a link to Stacy McCain’s Rule 5 Sunday, which itself contains a link to our very own Serr8d. Caleb at RedState: Doubling Down on Rush Related: US Treasury Secretary Timothy

Have at me. I won’t be listening.

of a good man. From the comments at Maguire’s: Today I received a letter from the IRS that my 2007 tax returns are being audited. Less than one month after launching TaxCheatStamps.com. There’s a list of “proposed changes” they want to make to my 2007 return that would require me to pay almost $14,000 in taxes, penalties, and interest. All the “discrepancies” they list are bogus and I have documentation

Obama is an idiot. I said it, and I mean it. Now: what do I mean? Let’s take a poll! h/t Sdferr

Chrysler subpoenas corpse from burial ceremony in asbestos case. Bailout. Shoe hurled at Achmadinejad. Outrage. Compound disinterest. If you want to see someone who really doesn’t get it, go over to (the ironically named Cassandra at) Villanous Company. I’m not going to link it, because I don’t think it comes to grips with the issue at all, though. It represents the symptoms, not the pathology, and it cedes to the

R.S. “Emily Post” McCain impeccably demonstrates the proper performance of linkwhoring. Read, and learn. This will be on the final. NB: Please note the justification of reach around.