Sadly, another “world’s oldest person” will just pop up to take this one’s place. They’re a lot like “the poor” that way: every time one person pulls out of that lowest 10% of earners, another person slips down to fill the void. We can only stand by and hope that a brave man — someone like John Edwards, for example — steps up to put an end to this kind

Republican Lincoln Diaz-Balart, addressing a La Raza conference in South Florida last month, tells the radical separatist group, “It is important that we emphasize the Spanish language.” Because, you know, assimilation is a racist enterprise, and English is the language of the oppresser class. Diaz-Balart’s pro-business, free-market stance is laudable. But the irony of his railing against totalitarianism while addressing La Raza and promoting the kind of multiculturalist pap that,

Writing in Der Spiegel, here’s Ullrich Fichtner: Ramadi is an irritating contradiction of almost everything the world thinks it knows about Iraq — it is proof that the US military is more successful than the world wants to believe. Ramadi demonstrates that large parts of Iraq — not just Anbar Province, but also many other rural areas along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers — are essentially pacified today. This is

A brief reply from an unreconstructed white supremacist to his (self-proclaimed) intellectual superior, over at the protein wisdom pub.

Garrett: “I don’t really follow baseball much anymore — though it seems like only yesterday I would spend three nights a week banging Cyndy Garvey in a hot tub while ex-hubby Steve was down San Diego way picking Graig Nettles throws out of the dirt. ” — Which, sorry, but it serves the bastard right for taking a gig with the Padres after all those years pretending to bleed Dodger

From Bob Owens, via email: Another Beauchamp claim that TNR claimed to have fact checked, debunked in two emails. Why should we still care? Because that is now three fictional claims made by Beauchamp in “Dead of Night,” prior to “Shock Troops.” If TNR’s editors had done their jobs then, they probably wouldn’t have published “Shock Troops,” and wouldn’t be worried about their employment situations now. Perhaps. But such a

From the WSJ: Hillary Clinton has been catching heat for refusing to swear off campaign cash from lobbyists, with critics accusing her of being a stooge of corporate and special interests. We’d say she deserves some credit. At last week’s YearlyKos event, former Senator John Edwards stooped for an easy applause line by challenging his fellow candidates to refuse donations from “Washington lobbyists.” Mrs. Clinton refused to take the sound-bite

From Breitbart: Karl Rove, President Bush’s close friend and chief political strategist, plans to leave the White House at the end of August, joining a lengthening line of senior officials heading for the exits in the final 1 1/2 years of the administration. A longtime member of Bush’s inner circle, Rove was nicknamed “the architect” by the president for designing the strategy that twice won him the White House. Bush

Of course, it helps that Guiliani, McCain, and (Fred) Thompson opted out. Full results here. The big story is this: Huckabee takes second, besting a fading Brownback. To which I say, Huckabee? Isn’t he the guy who wants to enforce junk food taxes and thinks one of the most important missions for a President is to combat the scourge of obesity? Whatever. Maybe we can have national morning exercises. For