Between Gloria Steinem challenging John McCain’s POW cred and Howard Wolfson setting himself up for a televised Whitewater smackdown from David Axelrod, it is a race to the bottom before Tuesday.

Via Roger Simon, an interesting opinion piece by Spengler about the two women in Obama’s life, and how they may have influenced his thinking about America and its place in the world.  He may or may not be right in his conclusion that Obama is an America-hater, but the biographical facts he marshals certainly support his case.  The more I find out about this guy, the more scared I become

Having noted that Barack Obama has given some evasive answers to questions about alleged influence peddler and Obama donor Tony Rezko, it is worth noting that Obama also has given evasive answers when questioned about Louis Farrakhan’s support of his campaign and about his relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Adam Freedman, writing in the New York Times, revisits the answers Obama gave at last week’s presidential debate in Ohio, focusing

I keep telling the nurses that Jaxon is going to owe me BIG TIME!!! You will have to pardon the language here a bit, but I have to borrow Gavin’s momma’s expressions, I felt like I was walking through hell last night carrying Jaxon with me. I have seen things a momma should never see here, done things a momma should never do, and I don’t want to do it

Assuming Obama shares the views of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict that are enunciated by people with whom he affiliates, I wonder how the scales of dudgeon will weigh: on the one side, Fred Armisen’s SNL representation of Obama, and on the other, the testimony of a ballistics expert demonstrating that Muhammad al-Dura could not have been killed by IDF bullets. Hinderaker does a great job on the 60 Minutes Siegelman Scandal.  Here are

The trial of alleged influence peddler and Obama donor Tony Rezko starts Monday in Chicago.  The New York Times has a piece for Sunday that ends up saying more about the NYT than it does about its ostensible subject: Tony Rezko was obviously in trouble. He was a defendant in at least a dozen lawsuits, federal investigators in Chicago were poking around, and his name was in newspaper articles about

The National Journal’s William Powers took note (as Dan and I did) of the recent New York Times article promoting paranoid fears that Barack Obama could be assassinated.  Powers attributes it to the Baby Boomers’ fixation on the 1960s: This has been happening for months and will likely continue through November. Sometimes the ’60s lens is highly relevant: Obama’s rhetoric unquestionably owes a lot to King. And sometimes the echoes

by Khmer Rouge: remains repatriated. Seared.  Seared. 

I’ve been part of a conversation over at Professor Bainbridge’s place today: Glenn Greenwald has done yeoman work in exposing anti-Catholic bigot Pastor John Hagee’s endorsement of John McCain and the latter’s refusal to disavow the endorsement. I agree that McCain should reject Hagee’s endorsement. You lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas. Which is why I thought Ron Paul should reject the endorsement he got from white

Oscar-winning actress Marion Cotillard was facing embarrasment with her new American public last night after it emerged that she doubted the official account of the September 11 attacks. Turning to America’s space programme, she said: “Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered. And in any case I don’t believe all they tell me, that’s for sure.” She also