Says he steadfastly denies any allegations that he used sexually inappropriate gestures while funneling guns to Mexican drug cartels. (thanks to geoffB)

Here’s what I gathered about her from the Daily story. Turn-ons: horses, puppies, Truth. Turn-offs: scoliosis, Cuban boys who escape communism, double-breasted suits that exude power.*

Margaret Wente, Globe and Mail: These people make up the Occupier generation. They aspire to join the virtueocracy – the class of people who expect to find self-fulfillment (and a comfortable living) in non-profit or government work, by saving the planet, rescuing the poor and regulating the rest of us. They are what the social critic Christopher Lasch called the “new class” of “therapeutic cops in the new bureaucracy.” The

Wait, a group known for left-wing community organizing with ties to the President involved in the organization and manipulation of a movement whose “message,” such as it is, is presented as in keeping with the President’s own class warfare rhetoric? Shocking. –Or, were the AP writing this story, they’d call this latest suggestion of some connection “unexpected.” Take your pick. (thanks to DarthLevin)

Has the ring of familiarity. On the plus side, it will get read. And that’s a good thing. (thanks to sdferr)

The pushback has begun in earnest. Those on the right who’ve previously joined the left in what it is clear is a politically motivated attack on Cain have an opportunity here to finally do the right thing and start pressuring this story. If it’s true, and Cain is a serial harasser, we need to know that. But if he’s not — and this has been yet another attempt to destroy

YNet: The conversation then drifted to Netanyahu, at which time Sarkozy declared: “I cannot stand him. He is a liar.” According to the report, Obama replied: “You’re fed up with him, but I have to deal with him every day!” The remark was naturally meant to be said in confidence, but the two leaders’ microphones were accidently left on, making the would-be private comment embarrassingly public. The communication faux pas

That is a picture of Scott Jacobs, taken from his Twitter account avatar. I hadn’t realized Jacobs was on Twitter until just recently, when he sent me two consecutive unsolicited Tweets. Seems Scott will be in town for Blogcon 11 and has decided no trip to Denver is complete without getting in my face. Should make for an interesting time. Maybe I can hold a panel discussion on very angry

For what it’s worth: You have people right now within the party taking this moment to once again push for gun control and using the scandal – Fast and Furious, using that to do so. They are saying these things openly. It’s astonishing to me. They are very confident – or very afraid. I think it’s fear that is now motivating them. When you have Feinstein coming right out and

Evidently, being spectacularly and publicly wrong about both conservatism and the last Black presidential candidate he analyzed has done nothing to blunt Mr Brooks high regard for both himself and the people with whom he’d willingly share a cucumber sandwich. The GOP is playing a dangerous game with conservatives, classical liberals, and right-libertarians who make up their voting base. And this willingness to try to shame that constitutionalist base into