Whelan-Publius outing, 15 sexiest conservative new media women, Obamas’ date night in NYC, Michelle Obama at Eiffel Tower, Gordon Brown references Obama Beach, Al Gore employees sentenced to hard labor in North Korea, Sotomayor’s fractured ankle, Lebanon vote against Hezbollah (whether it represents “victory for (the universal referent) Obama), horrific murder of pregnant woman in Oregon for fetus/baby/unborn child by Facebook acquaintance, O’Reilly vs CNN w/regards to coverage of Pvt.

with sorrow, regret, thanks for services, time to focus on family, explore other avenues, be of greater service, stick in wheel well. Great piece by Erick Erickson on his too-populism.

John McWhorter at Minding the Campus: A few weeks ago a teenaged pot dealer was shot dead in a Harvard dormitory. That alone was depressing enough. However, Harvard suspects a black senior, Chanequa Campbell, of an association with the pot dealer — Justin Cosby, also black — and last week was barred from her dormitory and prevented from graduating. Campbell grew up in the depressed Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, but

Melanie Phillips: Labour MPs are shocked that it is their own voters who have turned to the BNP. They are shocked because it is a mantra of the left that it stands in heroic and historic opposition to fascism. This is untrue. Both fascism and communism have their roots in counter-Enlightenment, obscurantist thinking which replaced reason by emotion, Judeo-Christian ethics by paganism, and the rejection of the primacy of the

Some constellations of signification seem memetically inevitable. So it is with the Cult of Obama. (being a Serr8d joint) On his visit to Egypt, Obama toured Giza, and jokingly compared himself with the carved imaged of a chief workman on one of the pyramid tombs. The pun was in the prominent ears. His guide chivalrously denied the comparison, stating that in his view, Obama better resembled the famous images of

From the WaPo: The 170-page bill, still labeled a draft, is by far the most liberal approach to health-care reform being discussed in Washington and potentially is quite expensive. It does not identify how the expansion of health coverage would be paid for, except to require businesses to provide insurance for workers or pay penalties. After spending “scores of hours in the Kennedy workhorse meetings” that assembled a diverse range

From Brian Garst at American Thinker: The most shocking case, however, is that of Miguel Estrada. Estrada was nominated by President Bush for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, a position he was, by most accounts, more than qualified for. Estrada graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was also editor of the Harvard Law Review, a post that would later be highly touted

Sixty-five years ago, at about 6:30 in the morning, a group of young men committed an act of bravery that will live as long as this country exists on the face of the earth.  I happen to be a WWII buff, more ETO than the Pacific, especially Normandy.  I’m pretty sure I’ve read almost every word written about Operation Overlord.  I’ve walked the long rows of white crosses and stars

Too stinky even for Congress? House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer and Reps. Chris Van Hollen and Daniel Maffei, in a letter today to President Barack Obama, expressed their “growing concern” over the closings of GM and Chrysler dealerships. Moreover, the three congressional Democrats say they want to hear a “compelling justification” how closing healthy dealerships will improve the ailing automakers’ fiscal situation. The three were asking their Capitol Hill

When Justice Department lawyers engaged in a sharp internal debate in 2005 over brutal interrogation techniques, even some who believed that using tough tactics was a serious mistake agreed on a basic point: the methods themselves were legal. Previously undisclosed Justice Department e-mail messages, interviews and newly declassified documents show that some of the lawyers, including James B. Comey, the deputy attorney general who argued repeatedly that the United States