Obama: “So Mr Ayers and I were talking to some people in the know, and I’m pretty sure we’ve figured out a way to get the toast off the plate on a technicality. As for our ‘friend’ the egg whitey omelet — well, let’s just say that a little bit of mau-mauing, some vigorous oppo research, an indictment from PETA, and our new grassroots campaign, ‘Up with Potatoes,’ will make

From American Thinker: You Tube and Warner Music Group today pulled a highly popular video that very succinctly and clearly spelled out the roots of the current economic crisis. The 9:59 video entitled “Burning Down the House: What Caused Our Economic Crisis” played four different songs under a fast moving video sequence that very clearly tied Democrats like Chris Dodd, Franklin Raines, Jim Johnson and Barack Obama to policies and

Joshua Muravchik, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, from his article in October issue of Commentary: Four years [after his 2004 DNC speech], Mr. Obama is the Democratic nominee, and even his occasional shrill attacks on his opponent seem to have chipped away little of the cornerstone of his own candidacy: the promise to bring us, all of us, together. Can he do that? Is he well-suited to raise

Mark Levin, writing at the Corner, takes issue with NRO’s own editorial on the bailout, and on opinions like those expressed by, eg, Rich Lowry. Argues Levin: From an economic perspective, if the problem is liquidity and credit, there simply is no need for the federal government to assume massive amounts of debt on its book by assuming loans in anticipation that their holders or borrowers will default. This seems

Because that would be the kind of big news not even the mainstream press could make disappear. From Instapundit: A READER AT A MAJOR NEWSROOM EMAILS: “Off the record, every suspicion you have about MSM being in the tank for O is true. We have a team of 4 people going thru dumpsters in Alaska and 4 in arizona. Not a single one looking into Acorn, Ayers or Freddiemae. Editor

— Which, from my perspective, means you can do one of two things: despair (and I’ll let Darleen guide you through that for now. Later, I’ll post something on this myself); or else put it out of your mind altogether, get yourself a pair of these, and — in about four months time — increase your vertical leap to the point where, should Obama try to fill the lane as

Much has been made of Senator McCain’s frustrating inability (or was it an unwillingness) in the first Presidential debate to go after Senator Obama and the Democrats with respect to the current credit crisis. Is McCain holding back, waiting for the proper moment to drop these precision bombs? Or is he truly so “collegial” that he can’t bring himself to break from the bi-partisan “maverick” image of himself he’s constructed

     “Hey, I have one of those, too,” he said, gesturing to his own bracelet — aware almost at once that his eagerness to claim equivalence as an afterthought had left him looking exposed and needy — the one small consolation being, he was quick to remind himself, that, no matter how he’d looked just then, at least he sounded like a needy and exposed Barry White.      So, like, it wasn’t