Impeached Gov. Blagojevich, on the first leg of his media blitz timed to the start of his impeachment trial, in an NBC interview broadcast on The Today Show Sunday compared himself to human rights heros Nelson Mandela, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi. That’s some pretty crappy writing, but the story’s wonderful, especially because he seems to confuse himself with the Obamessiah. The art of analogy has fallen

Or are you just Chris Matthews? Printed in a size that easily fits into pocket or purse, this book is an anthology of quotations borrowed from Barack Obama’s speeches and writings. POCKET OBAMA serves as a reminder of the amazing power of oratory and the remarkable ability of this man to move people with his words. His superb and captivating oratory style has earned comparisons to John F. Kennedy and

Via Insty: UT probe: another Booth wanted to kill a president Dismissed for 175 years as a fake, a letter threatening the assassination of President Andrew Jackson has been found to be authentic. And, says the director of the Andrew Jackson Papers Project at the University of Tennessee, the writer was none other than Junius Brutus Booth, father of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth. Dan Feller and his staff solved

The success stories just keep piling up; it’s two guys, not just one. It’s nice to know that they haven’t been stigmatized by their time behind bars in the Amerikkkan Gulag, and that in this time of rising unemployment they’ve found meaningful work. Two men released from the US “war on terror” prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have appeared in a video posted on a jihadist website, the SITE monitoring

maybe it’s time to start seeing other species. Fortunately, I’m Irish, so I don’t have any such issues with my goat. Also, Ron Rosenbaum hates Jooooooos. (That may be the racistiest thing I ever typed).

Western powers believe that Iran is running short of the raw material required to manufacture nuclear weapons, triggering an international race to prevent it from importing more, The Times has learnt. Diplomatic sources believe that Iran’s stockpile of yellow cake uranium, produced from uranium ore, is close to running out and could be exhausted within months. Countries including Britain, the US, France and Germany have started intensive diplomatic efforts to

I’m sure none of us is sociopathic enough to laugh at this. Bush in Iraq, though . . . that was hilarious.

Two firms funded with over $100 million in earmarks from the Democratic Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, John Murtha, were raided and temporarily shut down yesterday by the FBI and IRS. Surprised that you didn’t hear about such big news? Well, it did manage to hit page A6 of the Wall Street Journal today (U.S. Raids Contractors Aided by Murtha): Federal agents raided two small Pennsylvania defense contractors that

MSNBC host Chris Matthews suggested Friday that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) may not have the reading or writing ability needed to complete the book she is reportedly shopping. The Los Angeles Times reported Friday that Palin is seeking an $11 million advance for her memoir and has hired high-powered Washington attorney Robert Barnett to broker the deal. Teasing a segment on the book during his show “Hardball,” Matthews said:

if Frodo can’t cast ring into Cracks of Doom. (Interviewed by Gaia)