Washington Examiner: Obama and company have been on a demagogic spree in recent weeks, attacking the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and a host of shadowy, unnamed “foreign interests” for allegedly pumping millions of anonymous dollars into U.S. politics to buy the election. The charge is demonstrably false, but that doesn’t prevent its endless repetition. On Friday, however, we learned courtesy of the Wall Street Journal that the biggest political spending

A bounce-back week last week for me (11/14) — though it was all rather hollow, as the Broncos took a tough 50-yard penalty on 4th and 6th, allowing the Jets to steal one in the Mile High city. This week looks pretty tough, frankly, with a lot of games looking to me like toss-ups. But we must sally forth. So, here you go: Cincy over Atlanta (Matt Ryan is 15-1

From a smart dude I know: Jeff–this pull quote made me think of your ongoing efforts to alert people to the realities and consequences of the fight over who owns intent in language. It’s from Andrew Cline over at American Spectator: “CAIR pretended that the comment expressed support for treating all Muslims as terrorists. NPR, in turn, pretended to agree, even though Williams categorically and convincingly disavowed such a view

In my “Cloward-Piven strategy” vs. “unreconstructed bumbling incompetence and narcissism” office pool, the momentum keeps sliding ever more leftward… **** update: Geoff B sent me an email earlier noting that, per Stanley Kurtz in his new book, Radical-in-Chief, Obama attended the 1983 Socialist Scholars Conference at Coopers Union in NYC put on by the DSA (Democratic Socialists of America). At a forum of the conference called “Social Movements” (which had

A classified military document dump? Really? This is what you think Americans are interested in right now? It looks like the idea here is to intimate more Bush-era wrongdoings — with worst-case blowback from this classified document release being a heightened terrorist threat here and abroad, civic and political chaos and all-out bloodshed in Iraq, and the death of some of our own soldiers and/or allies. — Which, hey: small

You may recall that the NY Times has hired Nate Silver, the left’s poll wunderkind of 2008, but they seem to be having trouble accepting his analysis this year. Nate sees a 75% likelihood of a Republican take-over of the House. When we last checked in, we pointed out a few discrepancies between the NY Times expected result in some races versus Nate’s. It seems to have gotten worse.

But let’s not look at that. What we need to be concerned with is those shady “front groups” for all that nefarious “foreign money” pouring into the election (presumably from all those other conservative / classical liberal countries in the world who hate Obama just because he’s a powerful black man!) that’s being laundered through dubious entities like, say, the Chamber of Commerce, or Americans for Prosperity. Please. Drop your

Meghan McCain/Macademia nut half: “Oh. My. God. Peanuts? Really? Jesus, they’ll let just about anybody into a can of so-called ‘deluxe’ mixed nuts these days, won’t they…”**

When the revolution comes, perhaps NPR should be one of the first against the wall? — with respect to cutting government spending, I mean. No killing fields or ovens need apply. After all, we classical liberals aren’t the left, you know. **** related: NPR gets its man; “Juan Williams: NPR Fired Me for ‘Telling the Truth’”: my comments on ‘The O’Reilly Factor’ are being distorted by the self-righteous ideological, left-wing

Well, sort of. But not really. And honestly. Can I have posted anything less surprising? [h/t Darleen]