at Larry the Legend’s No Quarter: WARNING This does NOT apply to 99% of you, however, a couple of lost souls have posted threats against Barack Obama on this blog. Be forewarned, I will turn all threats over to the Secret Service (they are investigating two at this moment). While I don’t believe Barack is qualified to be President, nothing justifies or warrants a death threat. Please play nice. The

From the leader of the Reality-Based Community: Democrat Barack Obama paid an unscheduled late-night visit to Mount Rushmore Friday, visiting the national memorial at closing time and joking that his ears were too big to ever be included in such a display. *** He did express curiosity about the filming of a chase scene in “North by Northwest,” Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 classic starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint that

At The Chicago Tribune’s The Swamp, racist Jim Tankersley refers to “br*ar p*tch”. When DoS attacks go corporate.

Reviewed by Thomas Joscelyn: Not only does Washington have a hard time properly naming our jihadist enemies, it still fails to understand that terrorist-sponsoring regimes have long backed them. Here, McCarthy has been at the forefront of explaining how jihadist terrorism is frequently, but not exclusively, a tool of hostile regimes: Writing in these pages in 1998 (“The Sudan Connection”), he explored the many ties between the 1993 plotters and

arrested after secretly living for a year in man’s apartment, while he also was living there. (h/t Reynolds) This happened to me, as well, but in my case I reprimanded her for getting caught and determined never to speak of it again.

Picking up on Dan’s quotation of Rev. Susan Thistlethwaite on the new era of hopeyness and changitude to be brought into being by Barack Obama: This political campaign season often seems to me to be a kind of cultural theater, where we are seeing the end of one kind of politics, the politics of polarization (and even the religion of polarization) coming to an end and a new politics and religion

Don’t always agree with Bill Donahue, but he’s right on this time: “Father Pfleger’s tirade would be inexcusable anywhere, but it is even more offensive when it happens in a church. It does not matter that it was not his own, nor does it matter that it happened in a church that has a record of allowing demagogues to exploit it. When churches become forums for political rallies, both religion

from the horse. Reader Pat Riotic: Is it possible that the right is being a little crool on Scott McClellan? After all, what might have inspired Scott McClellan to write his book? Look at his daddy: As noted at the above link, his first job as a lawyer was with the LBJ administration. Later in life he became a disgraced lawyer who could no longer earn a living at his

Glenn Greenwald (a/k/a “Rick Ellensburg,” “Thomas Ellers,” “Ellison,” “Wilson” and “Ryan”) was so upset by Politico reporter Mike Allen’s use of the phrase “left wing haters” on a radio show that he was compelled to e-mail Allen with questions including,  “Is anyone who believes that the media was too deferential to the Bush administration in the run-up to the war a ‘left-wing hater?’” and “Can you give a few examples of

“You can’t tell how far a frog will jump until you punch him.” Your down-homey analogies welcome.