AM I THE ONLY ONE OF THE INSTAPUNDIT BLOGGERS AND GUEST-BLOGGERS who loathes the Daily Caller’s exploitation of the 2007 video of Barack Obama stirring up the black churchfolk? I don’t think this is helping Mitt Romney with the swing voters at all. Like last week’s playing and replaying of the Obamaphone lady’s ravings, it repels me from Republicans. I’m a swing voter — I voted for Obama in 2008

Let’s begin with the snobbish paternalism and rank condescension that tries to present itself as a kind of championing of the masses. First, Obama, 2007, the “other race speech”: On “poor” people: “We can’t expect them to have all the skills they need to work. They may need help with basic skills, how to shop, how to show up for work on time, how to wear the right clothes, how

That’s to be expected — and in fact, is an entirely predictable, trite, and wannabe-transgressive cottage industry in the Humanities and the social sciences, where leftwing “intellectuals” build their own little surreal, misinformed, and grievance-filled echo chambers. But to hear your current President parrot that kinds of illiberal thinking — from back in his Senate days just 5 years ago — well, that’s something else entirely. At least, it should

Via Drudge, thus spake Zerothustra: “We don’t need to build more highways out in the suburbs. We should be investing in minority-owned businesses, in our neighborhoods’…” Also, “OBAMA DECLARES HOW POOR PEOPLE: ‘Need help with basic skills, how to shop, how to show up for work on time, how to wear the right clothes, how to act appropriately in an office’…” Developing. Will anybody see this? Who knows. But I’ve

Of course they did. And nobody who follows politics on either side is the least be surprised, so let’s just forestall the ostentatious OUTRAGE that generally attaches to such stories. Instead, I’d like to reiterate a point I made here earlier today:  in order to be reasonably and accurately informed about the failed or dangerous political machinations of the left in this country, we are forced increasingly to rely on

— And yes, we were — try this on for size:  David Thompson, expanding on a Theodore Dalrymple essay, ends his post this way: The eliminationist zeal of much leftist rhetoric has been noted here more than once. Some of you will have seen this recent pantomime of activism – invoking “free speech” as a right to silence others – and its censorious consequences. Apparently, when the subways “belong to

House Oversight memo, via TRS: House Oversight and Government Reform Committee leaders today sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asking why requests for more protection were denied to the U.S. mission in Libya by Washington officials prior to the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack that killed U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens. The denials came after repeated attacks and security threats to U.S. personnel. “Based on information provided

No, not the private prep-school lunches the Obama children get each day. Don’t be silly. Those are for the future ruling class children. Rather, the government is urging parents to use the new M’chelle-directed and designed school lunches, produced for the teeming masses of largely slack-jawed public school kids because, let’s face it, years from now M’chelle or, say, Mayor Mike Bloomberg, will to have to look at their fat asses

The sound of political scandal is absolutely deafening! If you happen to watch Univision, that is. Otherwise, not so much. After all, investigating and then reporting on the programs and policies of a black President and his black Attorney General that led to the murder of white border patrol agent and a bunch of Mexicans — including, we’re now learning, many, many more than the DOJ copped to in its