The report by Lois Romano in today’s Washington Post is typical of the latest conventional wisdom: Women of all ages and nationalities push against the rope line carrying books and T-shirts, posters and stuffed animals — anything for her to autograph. They tote huge signs that shout “Hillary Cares About Me”– and they tearfully grab her hand to implore her to stick it out, to take her trailing campaign all

In the comments to yesterday’s post on Barack Obama’s declaration on Sunday that Iran, Venezuela and Cuba do not pose a “serious” threat to the US because they are “tiny countries,” much smaller than the Soviet Union (followed by his declaration on Monday that Iran was a “grave threat”), there was a general discussion of the whole “negotiation vs. appeasement” debate Pres. Bush put on the table with his weekend speech in

Barack Obama, in his May 6th victory speech in Raleigh, North Carolina, Obama decried — as he often does — the “same efforts to distract us from the issues that affect our lives by pouncing on every gaffe and association and fake controversy in the hope that the media will play along.”  Indeed, as the media and blogosphere have reported on those surrounding the man who wants to be the most powerful man in the

Iceland’s government approved on Monday the commercial hunting of whales this year, a move that drew quick criticism from conservationists. ********* Iceland is the best place to live in the world, a study has found. Measuring aspects of wellbeing such as life-expectancy, education and living standards puts the country top of the international happiness scale . . . . The inalienable right to hunt whales, despite the Bjorkness.  Hunting whales? 

The “Worst Person in the World”! Every day, I will choose the person who is most harmful to humanity at large, as determined by how much that person bothers me, which is the best index available. Today’s Worst Person in the World is my wife, Mary, who wouldn’t go buy me another six-pack of beer. But only because semanticleo didn’t hang around for long.

That is one of the new names bestowed on Barack Obama by the Crow tribe today.  The name means “one who helps people throughout the land.” Obama became the first American presidential candidate to visit the reservation of the Crow Nation. The other new name is “Barack Black Eagle.”  Presumably, the new middle name is as off-limits as the old one. The Obama campaign clearly went into rapid response mode

Can the woman largely responsible for Mrs. Clinton’s success do the same for Obama’s campaign? McCain has his fingers crossed. “Misogyny!” (h/t Memeorandum) Baby Contest Photo Winner on CBS exposes the materialist flaw in Bakhtinian theoretics (or, “the story was like, totally in the air, you dig…?”) You’re too late

Because Republican attacks are tackier: “But I do want to say this to the GOP. If they think that they’re going to try to make Michelle an issue in this campaign, they should be careful. Because that I find unacceptable,” he said. Obama praised his wife’s patriotism and said that for Republicans “to try to distort or to play snippets of her remarks in ways that are unflattering to her

“You know what really irks me, counterculture icon Billy Jack? The fact that there are those who still question my ‘authenticity’ as a Black man. This despite the color of my skin — a burden with which I was born and, through hard work and some Great Society mau-mauing, I have since overcome. Then there’s the inconvenient fact that my father was a bona fide Black man, something that those

At HotAir, Ed Morrissey has the video of Barack Obama declaring that Iran, Venezuela and Cuba do not pose a “serious” threat to the US because they are “tiny countries,” much smaller than the Soviet Union.  Morrissey and Jennifer Rubin note that the USSR did not lose the Cold War because of diplomacy, but because diplomacy was backed up by Reagan’s largely successful economic war against the Evil Empire.  Morrissey seems to be