From Breitbart: Earlier today, Buzzfeed’s Ben Smith announced on Twitter that video researcher Andrew Kaczynski had released “the mysterious Harvard/Obama/race video that the Breitbart folks have been talking about.” The video, which Kaczynski says was “licensed from a Boston television station,” shows a young Barack Obama leading a protest at Harvard Law School on behalf of Prof. Derrick Bell, a radical academic tied to Jeremiah Wright–about whom we will be

That would be unfair. And ungentlemanly, presumably. This despite the Obama Administration’s stated desire for higher gas prices as a way to ease fuel-guzzling bitterclingers out of their automobiles, this despite their attendant policies that have worked to assure a lower supply, from blocking drilling to nixing pipelines. Not to mention Obama’s own clearly articulated war on coal and electrical power, the costs for which he’s deemed must “necessarily skyrocket.”

What does it say about our country that a once fiercely independent people who claimed they’d walk a mile for a Camel can’t today be expected to walk (or bike, or drive, or be driven) a mile for some healthy arugula or a properly portioned take-out cup of broccoli salad? Other than maybe that they just don’t really want the stuff? I’ll tell you what it says: it says that

Okay, seriously. Has the national GOP and its antiquated, feckless, would-be kingmaker apparatus really become this big a joke? I mean, seriously, Rove. You and your whiteboard couldn’t even force on us an erstwhile “progressive” independent Paul Tsongas voter and Reagan opponent who had the universal support of his own family? Shit, man. It’s like you guys aren’t even trying any more. (h/t JHo)

Evidently, somebody from HuffPo (perhaps taking a cue from Sarah Palin?) went off script and Obama, as is his untelepromptered wont, panicked, pointedly ignoring the reporter and talking over the question to call on a friendlier one from a CNN scribe. The query the snubbed HuffPo reporter attempted to get Obama to address concerned the President’s acceptance, via a Super PAC, of Bill Maher’s million dollar donation — this despite

Romney, bless him, appears ready to bring back the pragmatist’s “good man” gambit. Which I’m sure is welcome news to President McCain and Press Secretary Rick Moran. Notes Romney of his campaign going forward [emphases mine]: Well, my message is I’m not going to say outrageous things about the president or about my opponents. It gets headlines and a lot of excitement, and it gets you, by the way, a

Wherein we watch in the kind of bemused stupor usually reserved for an Ionesco play as Barack Obama pretends to defend the rights of women to use spermicides and sponges, and the GOP continues its determined march to prop up as its preferred candidate for 2012 the erstwhile progressive and independent who, it turns out, when he wasn’t gladhanding his “friend and collaborator” Ted Kennedy, was busy counseling Obama to

Lost My Cookies emails me to let me know that an unincorporated area of Indiana near his house was particularly hard hit by the recent spate of purifying tornadoes an asshole God visited on the silly bitterclingers living in the part of the country responsible for keeping “Full House” and “America’s Funniest Home Videos” on TV for years and years and years. Writes LMC: “When the tornado jumped the river

We’re living in the midst of a Constitutional crisis. But don’t worry: the real problem we face is Rush Limbaugh’s incivility, or the cost-prohibitive nature of lubed latex jimmies, or the Catholic Church’s stubborn resistance to the kind of progressive social justice born of just doing what they’re told to do by the government, you ignorant masses. Meanwhile, as the battle over how best to punish Rush Limbaugh — or