Last week Jeff finished up an analysis of Obama’s radical ties, filtered through some of Jonah Goldberg’s observations, this way: Today’s battle for the Democratic nomination is between two heirs of the New Left. What makes Clinton different, I believe, is that she is even more calculating, and as such, a worry to progressives who fear she might outmaneuver them, once she gains power. Whereas Obama is an unproven politician

Some 75,000 people turned out in Portland on Sunday to hear Barack Obama preach change, hope and malaise to the masses. I was reminded of a recent comment from Michael Burleigh — the acclaimed author of books like The Third Reich: A New History, Earthly Powers and Sacred Causes, and Blood & Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism — in an interview with London’s Guardian: “Historians have widely ignored the impact of man’s need for something

Barack Obama can add the Christian Science Monitor to the Fox News Channel on his list of media outlets “pumping up rumors” about him (ABC News and the New York Times should be there also): Osama bin Laden must be chuckling in his safe house. After all, the 2008 campaign could very well give Al Qaeda the ultimate propaganda tool: President Barack Hussein Obama, Muslim apostate. The fact that Senator Obama –

The introductory paragraph: Robert Pedersen was devastated three years ago when a divorce judge said he could see his two children only a few days a month. Pedersen’s divorce agreement now includes long weekends, a Wednesday overnight visit and half of summers, holidays and spring breaks with his children. It’s almost enough time to make him feel that he can provide an equal amount of parenting to his kids. Michigan

Got a kid who’s into biology? Help him put together The Visible Balloon Dog. Great rainy weekend project. Skeletons of popular cartoon characters Devil Sheep from Hell Genius: Wilfred Bitchin’

Probably should have paid someone to take them for him. Tech Tip: If you’re running FireFox on two or more computers, you’ll want this.

Today’s New York Times has a “Political Memo” from Carl Hulse explaining that it’s hard to be a Democrat: While much of the Congressional political focus has been on the declining fortunes and numbers of House Republicans, House Democrats have their own problem: They are winning too many elections. By prevailing in conservative districts where they ordinarily would not have a chance, Democrats are widening the ideological divide in their

Pretty well done.

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The Center for Rural Strategies has John McCain leading Barack Obama 50%-41% a poll released today of likely voters in rural parts of 13 swing states: New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Florida, Virginia, Colorado, New Mexico, and Nevada. The (sorta) good news for Obama is that George W. Bush’s won rural voters nationally by 11 points in 2000 and 19 points in 2004.  A June 2007 CRS poll gave a