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