O! yes we can: The campaign of 2008 started on July 1 when Obama launched his first national advertising buy of the season. How McCain responds and whether or not he does, will have a big impact in determining whether Obama can solidify or expand his current lead in the polls. As always, the media fails to cover the significant events of the campaign — but this is one of

That was a Ben Jonson reference, BTW. “There are whole segments of the population that prefer being in the company of dogs than people, and I’m not sure that’s such a negative thing,” said Joel Gavriele-Gold, a psychoanalyst in private practice in Manhattan and the author of “When Pets Come Between Partners.” In a recent study, Lawrence Kurdek, a psychologist at Wright State University in Ohio, found that college students who

Okay, so I’m feeling a little toasty after having posted on this, yesterday. Dorkafork is right. It turns out that Obama was a live birth, and not a fetus who momentarily survived an attempt at an abortion, which would make it ineligible to become president. Damn you, internet, for exposing my gullibility!

GE/NBC/Universal purchases channel, parcels off staff to cable news concerns, hires Pixar to provide animated penguins, polar bears, robots to present the climate. Also, to animate anchorman Al Gore.

Commentary’s Abe Greenwald notes that the New York Times has a habit of referring to “Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, the homegrown Sunni insurgent group that American intelligence officials say has foreign leadership.”  Greenwald notes that al Qaeda in Iraq’s leaders have in fact been Jordanian, Egyptian and Saudi Arabian. Greenwald could have added that referring to AQI as “Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia” is one way to divert the casual reader from

Jennifer Loven of the Associated Press did a piece on Barack Obama’s attempted dash for the center that made poor Josh Marshall’s eyes bleed.  And a bunch of Marshall’s fellow travelers bleed with him. What really sets Marshall off is that Loven had the audacity to characterize Obama’s position that withdrawing combat troops could take as long as 16 months as “recent,” when in fact, he has been saying it for months.  What

with a robot, please. Frank went to see Wall-E and thinks that he would make a spiffy president, considered how let down he feels about Obama and McCain, but mostly McCain. As in the AP story, the Pixar animated film serves as a springboard to belly flop about how bad things are all over. Even little children of the digital age understand the fierce urgency of now. (I knew this

Remember a few days ago when that Canadian twit was characterizing as “hysterial” my response to a story about Muslims being offended by dogs on fliers put out by British police? Via Hot Air headlines comes this: Police sniffer dogs will have to wear bootees when searching the homes of Muslims so as not to cause offence. Guidelines being drawn up by the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) urge

Courtesy of AP: Happy birthday, America? This year, we’re not so sure. The nation’s psyche is battered and bruised, the sense of pessimism palpable. Young or old, Republican or Democrat, economically stable or struggling, Americans are questioning where they are and where they are going. And they wonder who or what might ride to their rescue.* These are more than mere gripes, but rather an expression of fears—concerns reflected not