and maintains it’s torture. Now, if it had been a good single malt . . .

The Politico’s David Paul Kuhn surveys the “striking level of discord and mounting criticism” of John McCain’s campaign among top GOP officials: “It’s not just message or not having just one single meta-theme to compete with Obama,” said a veteran Republican strategist with close ties to McCain’s top advisers. “It’s not just fundraising, which is mediocre. And it’s not even just organization, which is [just] starting or nonexistent in many states.” ***

A Palestinian man plowed an enormous construction vehicle into cars, buses and pedestrians on a busy street Wednesday, killing at least three people and wounding at least 45 before he was shot dead by security officers. I expect the protests to begin, presently. Senator Obama, when did you stop fisting your wife? I think this caught my eye because there’s a Playstation in it: Plea for Aid to Avert Starvation

As Jeff Zeleny and Michael Luo note in the New York Times, Barack Obama’s multi-billion dollar faith-based initiative runs the political risk of alienating his secular progressive supporters (some of whom are already smarting from Obama’s decisions to reject public financing and to support the latest bill on terrorist surveillance).  It also runs the risk of eroding his Change brand by appearing to continue a somewhat controversial Bush adminsitration policy. The

of self-congratulation, demonstrating some of the defects in a study designed to show that liberals are more open minded regarding their information sources on the internet. Besides, an objective study concludes that conservatives are better people than liberals. Patterico on blogger who walked in on Justice Kennedy with his (Kennedy’s) pants down. Obama (light)weighed in: The decision resonated in the presidential campaign, too, where Democrat Barack Obama objected to it.

More Baracky Fairness Doctrine fun: Safe Browsing Diagnostic page for www.spectator.org/ What is the current listing status for www.spectator.org/? Site is listed as suspicious – visiting this web site may harm your computer. What happened when Google visited this site? Of the 95 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 1 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time

(a Serr8d joint)

The title of Prof. Andrew J. Bacevich’s op-ed in the Boston Globe is actually “What Bush hath wrought,” but I figure that was the editing process at work. He lists a parade of would be horribles, but the third item should suffice to explain the Bacevich worldview: Affirmed – despite the catastrophe of Sept. 11, 2001 – that the primary role of the Department of Defense is not defense, but power projection

Dateline: somewhere between Indianapolis and Cartagena Clark’s comments won’t keep his children stuffed with healthy organic fruit

I haven’t posted on this, because I haven’t much to say about it, really. I just want to say that I understand that such sick people don’t in any way represent the great majority of Democratic Party Officials.