TNR’s Gabriel Sherman suggests that the establishment media is “breaking up” with Barack Obama  — he treats them so bad! HotAir’s Allahpundit, focusing on a quote near the end from a reporter claiming, “They’re terrified of people poking around Obama’s life,” writes: After reading it, I can’t decide if the takeaway is (1) that the press is a bunch of whiny, self-entitled five-year-olds, per the comically overwrought reactions from Adam

The funniest report of Barack Obama’s speech in Berlin comes from the NYT‘s Caucus blog: “Senator Barack Obama began his speech first by declaring that this was not a political speech.” Substantively, I welcomed his call for more support from Germany to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan.  However, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday she would make clear to Obama that there were limits to Germany’s military engagement in Afghanistan.  Merkel

Memorandum: To: The proggosphere, the Opinionated Press, New York Times, et al. Re: Attempting to claim John McCain is wrong about the counter-insurgency in Iraq At the risk of sounding rude, how dumb are you, anyway?  Starting an argument with John McCain over the timeline of the counter-insurgency in Iraq, e.g., the relationship between the Anbar tribes turning against al Qaeda and the “surge,” attempting to paint this as some

As almost always seems to happen after writing a post about taking pre-election polling with the requisite amount of salt, a poll arrives that raises a relatively undiscussed topic. In this case, some are interested in the new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finding that Barack Obama’s six point lead (unchanged from the same poll last month) expands to 13 points when third-party candidates Ralph Nader and Bob Barr are added

Yesterday, I noted that the current polling trends were not showing any sign yet of a significant “bounce’” from Barack Obama’s world tour.  At almost the same time (accounting for time zones) TNR’s Jonathan Chait was noticing the same tightening of the race, under the title “Maybe Pundits Need to Spend More, Not Less, Time Following the Polls,“ juxtaposing the current trend with this lede: I see that John has already beaten me

The power of persistence: Maybe another democracy, however imperfect, other than Israel in the Middle East could lead to more moderation, possibly other democracies? Democracies that could serve as bulwarks against Al Qaeda-type of terrorist states? Then in 2005-2006 came the increased violence from the Sunni insurgents against American kids, then the sectarian civil war between Sunnis and Shi’ites, with young Americans caught in the crossfire. My certainty in opposing

(Denise Writing) Matthew had labs drawn today, platelets are normal and ANC is over 2,000, which is very good. He looks great and is wearing me out. He doesn’t start his next chemo cycle until August 7th. – Eric and I have been busy getting Christ and Cancer ready to be revealed to the public. I’ve been doing the ground work, he the tech work. We are aiming for August

Fortunately, the 66 year-old man Novak hit has only minor injuries, which means Novak will probably only see a minor penalty. And that’s too bad. Karl posted on this, of course, but I thought I’d letterbox it. Sociopath. See Liberty Street. I guess Soros digs that shit, though.

I want to point out Michael Knox Beran’s article on Obama and the perfectibility of human nature, the best article I’ve read on the web in a while (Shelby Steele’s perfectly formulated piece about Obama’s appeal being the companion piece and other contender). I’d excerpt some, but you really ought to read the whole thing, even if I think the author underestimates the satirical intent of Machiavelli. Matt Heidt and

I had fun at Silky’s expense yesterday, but I want to say that still and all, and as absurd as his behavior has been in some respects, I count it as a point in Silky’s favor that she had the child and that he’s shown an interest. So, as much as I’d like to mock him more, I do feel sorry for Elizabeth and his family, and for Rielle and