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  1. Traditionalism: the antidote to conservative brain decay

    → View from the Right | 25 Jul 2008 | 2:37 pm MDT

    Jonathan L. writes: I have a thought on why traditionalism is so necessary. Like many people I happen to be...

  2. Video: McCain stands by accusation that Obama would rather win the election than the war

    → Hot Air » Top Picks | 25 Jul 2008 | 2:21 pm MDT

    "I question his judgment."

  3. Off Topic and General Interest

    → Daily Pundit | 25 Jul 2008 | 1:36 pm MDT

    window.document.getElementById('post-31347').parentNode.className += ' adhesive_post';Please post your off-topic and general interest items here.

  4. Hitchens: If Obama’s race speech was so memorable, try quoting one line from it

    → Hot Air » Top Picks | 25 Jul 2008 | 1:35 pm MDT

    "Megalomaniac narcissist."

  5. A Random Music Post/Bleg

    → Daily Pundit | 25 Jul 2008 | 1:33 pm MDT

    So…okay. I’m going to dig deeper into this jazz stuff. As I’ve mentioned, I like the fifties sort of instrumental work that Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, and that sort did so well. I’m not terribly big on vocals, especially scat singing, which drives me nuts. So…for you jazz afficionados out there - give me your [...]

  6. Oh Bloody Hell, Why Not?

    → Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler | 25 Jul 2008 | 1:30 pm MDT

    No, we’re not anywhere near “amazed” or “wowed” by the fact that the Dalai Bama managed to get 200,000 (assuming that the number is even close to accurate) Germans to stand around in a crowd and chant and cheer. Summer in Berlin, free event, free concert and free food and beer, you do the math. [...]

  7. Orgasmic Over Obama

    → The Urban Grind | 25 Jul 2008 | 1:27 pm MDT

    Hat tip: Mord Get a load of this dumb German reporter practically having an orgasm over Obama’s workout in the Ritz Carlton gym. Obama (with toned arms and a strong back) puts on his headphones for his iPod to listen to pop music. He hums quietly. Then he jumps on a fitness bike. He pushes [...]

  8. China Foils Terror Plot

    → The Urban Grind | 25 Jul 2008 | 1:06 pm MDT

    China has confirmed that their Shanghai police managed to foil a terrorist attack that was to be carried out during the upcoming Olympics, by an “international terror group.” Gee, I wonder who would try such a thing? Could it be Mormons, Catholics, or us EEEVIL JOOOZ? Here’s a clue: Recently, Chinese Government officials [...]

  9. Enquiring Minds

    → Wizbang | 25 Jul 2008 | 1:00 pm MDT

    Well, the National Enquirer is being slapped around again -- this time for their "bust" of former Senator (as well as former vice presidential nominee, former presidential candidate, and potential...



  10. Glick: Bush far worse than Clinton

    → View from the Right | 25 Jul 2008 | 12:53 pm MDT

    Over the years I have said in a variety of ways and in a variety of contexts (e.g., this and...

  11. L.A. Times blog ban on damaging, scurrilous rumors doesn’t extend to celebs

    → Hot Air » Top Picks | 25 Jul 2008 | 12:44 pm MDT

    Save Ferris!

  12. Judicial Watch Sues U.S. Govt.

    → The Urban Grind | 25 Jul 2008 | 12:39 pm MDT

    They’re suing on behalf of those heroic Border Patrol agents Ignacio “Nacho” Ramos, and Jose Alonso Compean, whom Whorehey Bushito had imprisoned for shooting a Mexican drug dealer in the rear. The two Border Patrol agents were sentenced to 11 and 12 years respectively. Meanwhile, Aldrete-Davila, who attempted to smuggle 750 pounds of marijuana [...]

  13. Drill Drill Drill!

    → The Urban Grind | 25 Jul 2008 | 12:33 pm MDT

    The Arctic may hold 90 billion barrels of oil! Of course the Democrats and their environmentalist minions will whine about how it will take us years to make that oil available, and that the polar bears will suffer for it, blah, blah, blah. Now in case you haven’t noticed, I love baby polar bears! [...]

  14. Obama Blames DOD for His Trip Cancellation

    → Webloggin | 25 Jul 2008 | 12:28 pm MDT

    I wrote yesterday and the conservative part of the Internet was abuzz with the story that Barack Obama had pulled out of a visit with wounded troops in Germany. My original piece discussed an issue with the DOD indicating that Obama could only go there in the capacity of a Senator and that campaign personnel [...]

  15. Who Says The Media Is Neutral?

    → The Urban Grind | 25 Jul 2008 | 12:24 pm MDT

    These liberal journos can bleat all they want about how neutral they are. But if you really want to know where they stand, just follow their money trail. An analysis of federal records shows that the amount of money journalists contributed so far this election cycle favors Democrats by a 15:1 ratio over [...]

  16. Obama Hits a Wall! Will Media Highlight MAJOR Obama Gaffe in Berlin Speech?

    → CanadaFreePress.Com | 25 Jul 2008 | 12:14 pm MDT

    Obama’s speech yesterday in Berlin, hailed as a “major” address, has at least one major, glaring error that shows that nether Obama nor his handlers and speech writers were thoroughly familiar with the facts. Obama’s main theme was about the “walls” that separate all of us one from another. He claims that many of these “walls” have been taken down and hails that as progress. But in at least one instance he is wrong. In fact more walls have been built where Obama claimed they were taken down.

  17. Why the European Crowds Cheered Obama

    → CanadaFreePress.Com | 25 Jul 2008 | 12:11 pm MDT

    To properly analyze the reason for the reception that Barack Obama received yesterday in Europe, one needs only to look at which lines caused the crowds to cheer and compare them with those that fell flat.

  18. On Obama Not Visiting Wounded Troops

    → The Urban Grind | 25 Jul 2008 | 12:10 pm MDT

    By now, I’m sure you all know that Obama decided not to meet with wounded troops in Germany. But now that the word of it has gotten out, the Obama campaign is saying the Pentagon nixed the visit. Barack Obama’s campaign issued a statement last night explaining that it canceled its planned visit to [...]

  19. The Ed Morrissey Show flashback: Ambassador John Bolton, Jim Geraghty

    → Hot Air » Top Picks | 25 Jul 2008 | 12:00 pm MDT

    Clarity on foreign policy from the master.

  20. Video: 17 ejected, pitcher booked for felony assault after minor league brawl

    → Hot Air » Top Picks | 25 Jul 2008 | 11:46 am MDT

    Disgraceful -- and entertaining!

  21. A More Perfect (European) Union

    → Power Line | 25 Jul 2008 | 11:40 am MDT

    The text of Barack Obama’s sermon to the Germans in Berlin yesterday is an incredibly rich and revealing document. Prerhaps...

  22. Hotel Guard Confirms Edwards Encounter

    → Sweetness & Light | 25 Jul 2008 | 11:38 am MDT

    From Fox News: Security Guard Confirms Late-Night Encounter Between Former Sen. John Edwards, Tabloid Reporters In Beverly Hills Hotel Friday, July 25, 2008 A hotel security guard told FOXNews.com he intervened this week between a man he identified as former Sen. John Edwards and tabloid reporters who chased down the former presidential hopeful after what they’re [...]



  23. Internet photo album of America’s new First Family

    → CanadaFreePress.Com | 25 Jul 2008 | 11:32 am MDT

    Some people might ask, “How come we haven’t seen or known about these pictures before?” The original source of the photos is unknown but they were passed on by Poland-based journalist and CFP columnist David Dastych.  This photo album of what could in November 2008 be America’s new First Family, which may not have been printed anywhere in the mainstream media, is being posted here for the approximate two hundred million Americans who have Internet Access.

  24. Congressional Dems Refuse to Debate or Vote on New Energy for America

    → Flopping Aces | 25 Jul 2008 | 11:24 am MDT

    Govt. report estimates massive energy find in Alaska and Democrats won’t let us touch it! The U.S. Geological Survey just released a summary of a new report showing an estimated 90 billion barrels of oil to be found above the Arctic Circle. That is enough oil to fuel the entire American economy for 12 years. Along [...]

  25. More Likely….

    → Daily Pundit | 25 Jul 2008 | 11:23 am MDT

    The Volokh Conspiracy - - Secession, Ignorance, and Stupidity: A recent Zogby/Middlebury Institute poll shows that 22% of Americans believe that “any state or region has the right to peaceably secede and become an independent republic.” Belief in states’ and regions right to secede was especially common among blacks (40%), Hispanics (43%) and people aged 18-24 (40%). [...]

  26. Qantas jet lands with gaping hole in fuselage

    → CanadaFreePress.Com | 25 Jul 2008 | 11:22 am MDT

    PAUL ALEXANDER, News.yahoo.com MANILA, Philippines - A Qantas jumbo jet carrying 345 passengers made an emergency landing Friday with a gaping hole in its fuselage after a mysterious “explosive decompression,” officials said. There were no injuries, but some passengers vomited after disembarking the Boeing 747-400, said Octavio Lina, Manila International Airport Authority deputy manager for operations. The cabin’s floor gave way, he said, exposing some of the cargo beneath and part of the ceiling collapsed.

  27. Watcha Gonna Do?

    → Wizbang | 25 Jul 2008 | 11:16 am MDT

    As this fall approaches as the nation's spirit embraces the hope that finally, perhaps, we will be done with the incessant campaigning for a while and can get on with...



  28. Tech Bubble

    → Daily Pundit | 25 Jul 2008 | 11:12 am MDT

    Balls the size of church bells | Cold Fury Remember yesterday’s post on President For Life Obama’s big fat lie about being on the Senate Banking Committee? Well, also Via GP, it actually gets better, if you can believe it. The little weasel not only wasn’t on the committee that passed the bill he claims to [...]

  29. The War On (Some) Drugs May Cost Us Another War

    → Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler | 25 Jul 2008 | 11:12 am MDT

    …the main problem being, of course, that the “other war” is a real one that is both winnable and immediately necessary to win, something that cannot be said about The War On (Some) Drugs. Much is being said about our efforts to eradicate the poppy farming in Afghanistan and how it seems to not be working. [...]

  30. Croatian Terrorist Granted Parole

    → The Urban Grind | 25 Jul 2008 | 11:11 am MDT

    First off, here’s some background information on Croatian terrorist Zvonco Busic, whom the New York Times euphemistically refers to as an independence fighter. Unfortunately, Busic is now a free man in his native Croatia. The fighter, Zvonko Busic, led a group that planted a bomb at Grand Central Terminal that later exploded, killing [...]

  31. Maybe As A Parking Lot…?

    → Daily Pundit | 25 Jul 2008 | 11:03 am MDT

    Sale of U-T explored by Copley Press | The San Diego Union-Tribune Copley Press, publisher of The San Diego Union-Tribune, said yesterday it has hired an investment banking firm to pursue options, including selling the newspaper… Well, whatever unencumbered real estate they’ve managed to hang on to is probably still worth something…

  32. Major Garrett: If Obama spent more time visiting troops, he’d know they don’t only watch Fox News

    → Hot Air » Top Picks | 25 Jul 2008 | 10:58 am MDT

    Awesome.

  33. Simply Incomprehensible

    → Daily Pundit | 25 Jul 2008 | 10:57 am MDT

    Cartoon Outrage Or Hypocrisy - July 25, 2008 - The New York Sun The Women’s Media Center on Fifth Avenue claims “it strives to make women visible and powerful in the media.” Even though I’ve written almost a thousand op-ed columns for New York newspapers in the last 10 years, this organization and its president, Carol [...]

  34. Republicans Prevent Democrat Energy Bill From Passing

    → Flopping Aces | 25 Jul 2008 | 10:56 am MDT

    Harry Reid lost it with reporters today after their failed attempt to produce a energy bill without legislation that would end a Congressional moratorium on off-shore drilling. Republicans vowed to defeat any bill that did not include this, and they did. Which sent Reid into a bit of a tizzy: At a “pen and [...]

  35. B. Hussein Did Not Snub Troops In Iraq?

    → The Urban Grind | 25 Jul 2008 | 10:50 am MDT

    Update: According to my friend Vilmar, this is not quite a hoax. It looks like that letter I posted yesterday was a hoax. That still doesn’t change my opinion of Obama. He still wants to gut our military, milk our ordinary hard working citizens like cows, and negotiate with Iran.

  36. Europe’s “serious losses” put in perspective

    → Hot Air » Top Picks | 25 Jul 2008 | 10:30 am MDT

    Unserious.

  37. My Guess Is

    → Daily Pundit | 25 Jul 2008 | 10:27 am MDT

    The flurry of rumors launched a few days ago about McCain strongly considering Mike Hucksterbee as his running mate came direct from the McCain campaign, and was designed to make us all glad when he picks somebody else instead. Sort of like, “You don’t like this one? Well, imagine what I could have given you.”

  38. The Real Scandal Isn’t the Scandal….

    → Daily Pundit | 25 Jul 2008 | 10:25 am MDT

    LAT bans its bloggers from discussing Edwards charges. - By Mickey Kaus - Slate Magazine This was a sensational scandal the LAT and other MSM papers passionately did not want to uncover when Edwards was a formal candidate, and now that the Enquirer seems to have done the job for them it looks like they want [...]

  39. The Evil Eye

    → Daily Pundit | 25 Jul 2008 | 10:18 am MDT

    Once upon a time, Reason Magazine Editor-in-Chief Matt Welch… Looked very much like a human being, rather than a cable news animatronic ‘droid: Tony Pierce has the goods. UDATE: Weirdness? Unless I am mistaken, apparently the LAT editor “Tony Pierce” is the same supposed free-thinker and OG blogger who I cite above. Talk about becoming your basic [...]

  40. Obama Blames Troop Snub On Pentagon

    → Sweetness & Light | 25 Jul 2008 | 10:12 am MDT

    From ABC News: Obama Camp Pins Scrubbed Troop Visit on Pentagon Obama Camp says Pentagon Tried to Limit Their Planned Troop Visit in Germany; Pentagon Pushes Back By SUNLEN MILLER July 25, 2008 — The Obama campaign and the Pentagon are putting forth different versions of what happened before Sen. Barack Obama cancelled a planned Friday morning visit to [...]



  41. David Brooks on Obama: This isn’t eloquence, it’s Disney

    → Hot Air » Top Picks | 25 Jul 2008 | 10:04 am MDT

    "This was the end of history on acid."

  42. More Than 750,000 Fail To Show Up

    → The Urban Grind | 25 Jul 2008 | 10:00 am MDT

    My son called me this morning laughing that only 250,000 people showed up to hear Obama’s speech in Germany yesterday. I asked what’s so funny about that because 250,000 is a lot of people. He laughed again and said “because they were expecting over 1,000,000 to show up. He was right. [...]

  43. Barack "Both Ways" Obama Rides Again

    → Wizbang | 25 Jul 2008 | 10:00 am MDT

    One theme I've picked up on Barack Obama is his innate need to take both sides of an issue, and then argue that his simultaneously holding opposing viewpoints is in...



  44. Obama’s Lesson From His First Iraq Trip

    → Sweetness & Light | 25 Jul 2008 | 9:59 am MDT

    From the great man’s second autobiography The Audacity Of Hope, pp 173-6: The landing at Baghdad International Airport turned out not to be so bad—although I was thankful that we couldn’t see out the windows as the C-130 bucked and banked and dipped its way down… I would spend only a day and a half in [...]



  45. Team McCain Conference Call: Energy

    → Hot Air » Top Picks | 25 Jul 2008 | 9:37 am MDT

    Refugees.

  46. Obama Plays Reagan in Berlin

    → CanadaFreePress.Com | 25 Jul 2008 | 9:35 am MDT

    An interesting contribution to Barack Obama’s campaign shows up in the records of the Federal Election Commission. Casey Kauffman of Al-Jazeera, who lists his occupation as a journalist in Doha, gave the Democratic candidate $500 in February.

  47. The 180lbs. “Guerilla”: China’s Military Aspirations

    → CanadaFreePress.Com | 25 Jul 2008 | 9:35 am MDT

    As the mainstream media is dominated by its attention to the preparations for Beijing Olympics being held August 8-24 this year, an obvious truth is being ignored or going unaddressed. The more important story is that China is on a mission to dominate the United States and the rest of the world militarily by building nuclear weaponry meant to defeat the United States on the world stage. The actual Olympics pale in comparison to this upcoming event. And while our people continue to be distracted by a variety of “shiny things” meant to divert their attention, the Chinese continue their march to dominance in the military sphere. What serves to distract our nation from such an important subject?

  48. 8,000 foreign fighters in Fata ring alarm bells in Islamabad

    → CanadaFreePress.Com | 25 Jul 2008 | 9:31 am MDT

    ISLAMABAD: In a disturbing report presented to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, days before he travels to the United States, the latest figure of foreign fighters present in the tribal areas of Pakistan is estimated to be more than 8,000.  The government is reluctant to officially confirm this number. At a special cabinet briefing on Sunday in which Asif Ali Zardari was also present, besides the prime minister and Adviser to the Interior Ministry Rehman Malik said the government will have to use force if the process of dialogue does not produce the results, but his view was opposed by the minister from FATA Hamidullah Jan.

  49. Mild resolution adopted over the USS Vincennes incident

    → CanadaFreePress.Com | 25 Jul 2008 | 9:26 am MDT

    Part 19 - JULY 21 1988 ‘The Resolution adopted today puts the unfortunate events of July 3 in proper perspective.’ Vernon A. Walters, United States Representative at the UN Today, the UN Security Council adopted a mild resolution regarding the downing of an Iranian airliner by the USS Vincennes, causing the instant death of 290 people including 66 children. 

  50. High Flying Hypocrites

    → CanadaFreePress.Com | 25 Jul 2008 | 9:12 am MDT

    Recently, it has been next to impossible to find a politician not talking about the need to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions.  Ironically enough, it’s almost next to impossible to pick up a newspaper and not find a story of a politician flying off to a conference in an exotic location.  Isn’t there an old saying “practice what you preach?”

  51. Olympics: Beijing’s clean air claim challenged by scientists

    → CanadaFreePress.Com | 25 Jul 2008 | 9:09 am MDT

    Richard Spencer in Beijing Buildings are shrouded in haze and smog in Beijing’s central business district July 18, 2008 Photo: Reuters A study published in China alleges that air quality near the main Olympic venues fails the government’s own “safe” target for dust particles on most days.

  52. cop fined

    → Daily Pundit | 25 Jul 2008 | 9:04 am MDT

    The asshole parked in a no parking zone to eat lunch. The friends, who were sitting at a front window, saw the officer park his marked patrol car in a curbside no-parking zone, within several feet of a crosswalk. Bryant testified that it became apparent the officer was waiting for dinner and watching a basketball game on [...]

  53. Video: Nightmare at 20,000 feet

    → Hot Air » Top Picks | 25 Jul 2008 | 9:00 am MDT

    Still the official airline of Rain Man.

  54. Not In It For The Attention, Mind You… XIX

    → House of Eratosthenes | 25 Jul 2008 | 8:41 am MDT

    …but I hope I can send some attention to the Folds of Honor Foundation. It began with the death of 28-year-old Brock Bucklin, an Army specialist from Caledonia. He was killed May 31, 2006 in Iraq when fellow soldiers were lifting heavy equipment and a hoist broke. His sacrifice was etched on the hearts of the passengers [...]

  55. Limbaugh's unhinged characterization of Obama's speech, approvingly quoted by Powerline

    → View from the Right | 25 Jul 2008 | 8:06 am MDT

    Last night I challenged Scott Johnson of Powerline to back up his statement that Barack Obama in his Berlin speech...

  56. Media Bias From Around the Web

    → California Conservative | 25 Jul 2008 | 7:56 am MDT

    Theres a lot floating around the web today concerning the media love affair with Sen. Barack Obama. While some think its a myth (e.g. the progressive site Think Progres). Well, Investors Business Daily took a look at the numbers, specifically donations to candidates by members of the media. An analysis of federal records shows [...]

  57. The gospel according to Gerard

    → Power Line | 25 Jul 2008 | 6:57 am MDT

    London Times American correspondent Gerard Baker expounds the Obamessianic gospel in "He ventured forth to bring light to the world."...

  58. Judas in Print: Journalist Mocks MSM Groupies Over Fatuous Coverage of Barack Obama

    → Webloggin | 25 Jul 2008 | 6:55 am MDT

    If the mainstream media isn’t yet embarrassed by their over the top coverage of a junior Senator from Illinois with nary an accomplishment minus their personal obsession over his skin color then they should be. Many in the American public and even some media people themselves are starting to mock the MSM contingent that is [...]

  59. Another day in Arafatistan

    → Power Line | 25 Jul 2008 | 6:15 am MDT

    The Jerusalem Post reports: An IDF elite unit operating in Jenin discovered on Tuesday a large explosive device planted in...

  60. UN Tells Britain To Treat Muslims Better

    → Sweetness & Light | 25 Jul 2008 | 6:15 am MDT

    From the UK’s Telegraph: Treat Muslims better, Britain told by UN Britain has been told by the United Nations to challenge negative public views towards the Muslim community. By Chris Irvine25 Jul 2008 The nine-member human rights committee composed of legal experts, said it was concerned “negative public attitudes towards Muslim members of society” continued to be allowed [...]



  61. Wizbang Weekend Caption Contest™

    → Wizbang | 25 Jul 2008 | 6:00 am MDT

    It's Friday, which means it's time for the Wizbang Weekend Caption Contest™. Enter your best caption for the following picture: Winners will be announced Monday morning....



  62. For They Have Slipped The Surly Bonds Of Earth

    → Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler | 25 Jul 2008 | 5:44 am MDT

    …And touched the face of G-d. Although it barely received national coverage from the Dead Stream Media, the USAF is in mourning this week for the loss of a B-52H stationed out of Barksdale Airforce Base. A memorial service will be conducted on base today for the families and friends of the brave aircrew of [...]

  63. Rush knows what moment it is

    → Power Line | 25 Jul 2008 | 5:35 am MDT

    On his show yesterday, Rush Limbaugh provided his take on Obama's sermon to the Germans as it was delivered. At...

  64. East Hampton Faces $12 Million Deficit

    → Sweetness & Light | 25 Jul 2008 | 5:05 am MDT

    From the New York Post: Town Supervisor William McGintee ‘LEA$T HAMPTON’ IS GOING BROKE GLAM TOWN $12M IN THE HOLE By SELIM ALGAR and ANDY GELLER July 25, 2008 The town of East Hampton, playground of the rich and pampered, is broke. How broke? Well, the town is likely to end the year with a $12 million deficit - and in [...]



  65. Newsbusters' takedown o' the day

    → Doug Ross @ Journal | 25 Jul 2008 | 4:06 am MDT

    Heather Wilson (R-NM) pulverizes Chris Matthews and Sen. Robert Wexler (he of sleeping on his Mother-in-Law's couch) simultaneously using everything but brass knuckles and a two-by-four. ROBERT WEXLER: The allegation that Senator Obama has not been effective, yet it is his view in Iraq that is now the prevailing view that the Prime Minister of Iraq has endorsed. It is Senator Obama's view that



  66. A Simple Suggestion For Senator Obama

    → Wizbang | 25 Jul 2008 | 4:00 am MDT

    Well, once again someone has come up with an explanation for another of Senator Obama's statements that, on the surface, are rank falsehoods. A few weeks ago, Obama got himself...



  67. Issues Still Matter

    → California Conservative | 25 Jul 2008 | 3:06 am MDT

    In this Washington Times article, Denver pollster Floyd Ciruli points out something I’ve been saying all along, namely, that issues matter: “We’d gotten into this mind-set that 2008 would be a good year for the Democrats,” said Denver pollster Floyd Ciruli. “What this shows is that issues still matter.” Mr. Ciruli isn’t the only pollster to notice [...]

  68. A view of Obama

    → View from the Right | 25 Jul 2008 | 1:17 am MDT

    Obama's Berlin speech was basically his standard Democratic primary victory speech, with the same airy but unreal, transcendent but empty,...

  69. Obama’s Berlin Speech Gives Hope to the Universe

    → Latest Posts | 25 Jul 2008 | 12:49 am MDT



  70. A Runaway Ego is Barack's Blind Spot

    → American Thinker | 25 Jul 2008 | 12:04 am MDT

    Every political campaign has its weak spot. Every human being has his own blind spots. In politics and war, it's those blind spots that eventually make for victory or defeat.

  71. Obama's Berlin Transfiguration Speech

    → American Thinker | 25 Jul 2008 | 12:04 am MDT

    Obama's Berlin speech was the platform for his transfiguration into the presumptive victorious candidate for global leadership.

  72. The Stealth Bailout

    → American Thinker | 25 Jul 2008 | 12:03 am MDT

    Stealthily, with minimal legislative deliberation (much less media attention), a vast new claim on the United States Treasury is being enacted into law by Congressional Democrats.

  73. Obama's European Love Parade

    → American Thinker | 24 Jul 2008 | 11:00 pm MDT

    More than 200,000 Germans turned out in Berlin on July 24 to hear a carefully stage-managed Barack Obama tell them exactly what they wanted to hear:

  74. The Washington Post nails it

    → Power Line | 24 Jul 2008 | 10:21 pm MDT

    I've alluded to the Washington's Post outstanding editorial from yesterday about Barack Obama and Iraq, but it merits more attention...

  75. The Anointed One’s Pilgrimage Abroad

    → Sweetness & Light | 24 Jul 2008 | 10:15 pm MDT

    A funny and all too apt editorial from Gerald Baker at the UK’s Times: He ventured forth to bring light to the world Gerard Baker July 25, 2008 The anointed one’s pilgrimage to the Holy Land is a miracle in action - and a blessing to all his faithful followers And it came to pass, in the eighth year [...]



  76. The Nearly Men

    → Power Line | 24 Jul 2008 | 9:31 pm MDT

    British sportswriters sometimes refer to an athlete as "a nearly man." The phrase is not an attack on the subject's...

  77. He Could Be A Serial Liar

    → Power Line | 24 Jul 2008 | 8:49 pm MDT

    Maybe there is another explanation for Barack Obama's trouble with the truth, but I'm not sure what it would be....

  78. Did Obama deprecate America?

    → View from the Right | 24 Jul 2008 | 8:33 pm MDT

    This is an open letter to Scott Johnson of Powerline. Dear Mr. Johnson: Concerning Obama's Berlin speech, you write: I...

  79. In the end, not much

    → Power Line | 24 Jul 2008 | 8:28 pm MDT

    Barack Obama's speech in Berlin was a coherent, articulate, but hardly memorable expression of the liberal internationalism that, I take...

  80. The chutzpah continues… Obama replaces Old Glory with “Obama O” symbol on tail of jet

    → Flopping Aces | 24 Jul 2008 | 8:12 pm MDT

    H/T to WorldNetDaily Words fail…. the spittle rises. And don’t miss Jake Tapper’s acerbic commentary as one of the media who are “denied access”…. iBeginShare.attachButton('share-tool-394643807', {title: 'The chutzpah continues&#8230; Obama replaces Old Glory with <br /> &#8220;Obama O&#8221; symbol on tail of jet', link: 'http://www.floppingaces.net/2008/07/24/the-chutzpah-continues-obama-replaces-old-glory-with-obama-o-symbol-on-tail-of-jet/', content: 'http://www.floppingaces.net/?ibegin_share_action=get_content&id=5992'});

  81. Ever heard of "two wrongs don't make a right"?

    → Wizbang | 24 Jul 2008 | 8:12 pm MDT

    Apparently, Vanity Fair hasn't. All the furor over the New Yorker's Obama "satire" cover led them to conclude that... they needed to do exactly the same thing! This time, of...



  82. First time as tragedy, second time as self-puffing grandiosity

    → View from the Right | 24 Jul 2008 | 7:50 pm MDT

    The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they...

  83. Senate Republicans are laying down the gauntlet.

    → Wizbang | 24 Jul 2008 | 7:39 pm MDT

    It's nice to see Republicans show some cojones for once. They seem so content to just meekly accept whatever BS Democrats hand them, so this was music to my ears!...



  84. How Bad Was It?

    → Power Line | 24 Jul 2008 | 7:10 pm MDT

    I didn't think Obama's Berlin speech was as bad as Scott did. Actually, I could have given large chunks of...

  85. Tearjerker of the Day: Eight-year-old "marries" his childhood sweetheart the day before he dies.

    → Wizbang | 24 Jul 2008 | 7:06 pm MDT

    Grab the tissue box before you read this one: An eight-year-old boy who had set his heart on 'marrying' his school sweetheart achieved his final wish the day before he...



  86. The Ultimate List of Barack Obama Flip-Flops

    → Doug Ross @ Journal | 24 Jul 2008 | 7:02 pm MDT

    Follow the bouncing beliefs. • The Surge: "It's fascinating to watch Barack Obama change his opinions on the U.S. troop surge in Iraq... Here's a combo -- a Los Angeles Times report on deletions of Obama's previous anti-surge position on his Web site plus a YouTube video showing his flip-flops on the issue." • Gay Marriage: "Obama before the election: States should decide gay marriage. Obama



  87. Oil prices due to rise again? Nigeria under threat by MEND, GOP under threat by Pelosi

    → Flopping Aces | 24 Jul 2008 | 6:47 pm MDT

    The Nigerian light sweet crude oil lines are again under fire by MEND (Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta), as the militant thugs threaten to destroy “the Chanomi creek pipeline and other major pipelines” within the next 30 days. Tho the crude represents only about 8% of the US imports, the Nigerian disruptions [...]

  88. About That Non-Political Speech In Germany

    → Flopping Aces | 24 Jul 2008 | 6:30 pm MDT

    Yeah, nothing political about that Germany speech: Shortly after 6 pm Central time — just a few hours after Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, gave his speech in Berlin, which his campaign insisted was not political — his campaign manager, David Plouffe, sent out a fundraising solicitation using the speech to raise campaign cash. “As you may have [...]

  89. He Ventured Forth To Bring Light To The World

    → Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler | 24 Jul 2008 | 6:20 pm MDT

    Gerard Baker of the timesonline.uk, channels the finest in satire, reminiscent of the best work of the legendary Monty Python. [Hat Tip to our ever-watchful Imperial Sniper for this gem] SPEW ALERT IN AFFECT, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED !!!! He Ventured Forth To Bring Light To The World The anointed one’s pilgrimage to the Holy Land is a miracle [...]

  90. Larwyn's Link Kerplosion: "I'm all ears!"

    → Doug Ross @ Journal | 24 Jul 2008 | 6:08 pm MDT

    • Don Surber: 'People of the World, Look at Berlin!' • Atlas: Obama's foreign contributions: who is Ronald Hickel?: "John and I, in continuing to pour over these documents in the old fashion way, tedious line by tedious line, have found dozens, literally dozens of instances in which people have clearly made contributions over the applicable $2300 per individual limit, without consequence or



  91. The case of the missing thesis

    → Doug Ross @ Journal | 24 Jul 2008 | 5:11 pm MDT

    NBC's Jim Popkin: The hunt for Obama’s senior “thesis” began with a throwaway line in a newspaper article last October. The New York Times story, on Obama’s early New York years, mentioned in passing that the presidential contender had majored in political science at Columbia and had spent his time “writing his thesis on Soviet nuclear disarmament.” Journalists began hounding Columbia



  92. Christians Suck

    → House of Eratosthenes | 24 Jul 2008 | 5:10 pm MDT

    I’ve come to a conclusion about people like this. Why Christians S**k Jesus might have harsh words for Christians today. Here’s why…and what you can do about it. By Tom Davis Each Sunday, millions of Christians in America gather to worship the God who commands us to “love our neighbor as ourselves.” We belt out praises to the God [...]

  93. Hurricanes Do Not Negotiate

    → Wizbang | 24 Jul 2008 | 4:53 pm MDT

    Here in Houston it is raining. It's been doing that pretty much ever since Dolly made landfall yesterday, a hurricane at that time. Lots of water but not much else...



  94. A Picture of Obama’s Elitism

    → California Conservative | 24 Jul 2008 | 4:40 pm MDT

    According to WND&#8217;s Aaron Klein, Sen. Obama&#8217;s camapaign staff plastered the barricades at Jerusalem&#8217;s Western Wall with campaign signs: Sen. Barack Obama&#8217;s campaign plastered the entrance to the Western Wall, the holiest site in Judaism, with official campaign posters, WND has learned. Jerusalem Police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld confirmed to WND posters that adorned police barricades erected at [...]

  95. Dare to Hope

    → House of Eratosthenes | 24 Jul 2008 | 4:30 pm MDT

    Har! H/T: American Princess.

  96. What he's running for

    → View from the Right | 24 Jul 2008 | 4:19 pm MDT

    Gerhard Sporl writes in Der Spiegel: Anyone who saw Barack Obama at Berlin's Siegessaule on Thursday could recognize that...

  97. Does anybody know what moment it is?

    → Power Line | 24 Jul 2008 | 3:31 pm MDT

    In his sermon to the Germans, Barack Obama presents himself both as Barack the Baptist and the Obamessiah. Nevertheless, Americans...

  98. The Knucklehead of the Day award

    → Wizbang | 24 Jul 2008 | 3:19 pm MDT

    Today's winner is Patrick Johnson. He gets the award for the following. OCALA, Fla. -- Ocala police said a bank robber made it easy for them to track him down...



  99. Chris Rock expounds on niggaz

    → View from the Right | 24 Jul 2008 | 3:17 pm MDT

    Bill in Maryland writes: You write: "Whoopi Goldberg said that when blacks say 'nigger' to each other, it is a...

  100. The surge worked! But The Jr. Senator Refuses To Accept That Fact. [Reader Post]

    → Flopping Aces | 24 Jul 2008 | 2:59 pm MDT

    Why can’t Barack admit the obvious? In January 2007, the war in Iraq was in need of a new strategy. A year and a half later, violence is down dramatically, the Iraqi political system is beginning to work, and there’s a belief the U.S. and Iraq have achieved an outcome that seemed out of reach just a [...]

  101. Polls Show No Bounce For Obama Post-Maliki Comments On Withdrawal

    → Flopping Aces | 24 Jul 2008 | 2:52 pm MDT

    McCain is gaining in key states: Republican John McCain has quickly closed the gap between himself and Democratic rival Sen. Barack Obama in several key battleground states even as the Arizona senator struggles to break through the wall-to-wall coverage of Obama’s trip to Europe and the Middle East this week. McCain and Obama are in a statistical [...]

  102. A Strange Speech, Some Odd Parallels

    → California Conservative | 24 Jul 2008 | 2:29 pm MDT

    Several portions of Barack Obama&#8217;s speech in Berlin caught my attention. Here&#8217;s the first thing he said that caught my attention: The odds were stacked against success. In the winter, a heavy fog filled the sky above, and many planes were forced to turn back without dropping off the needed supplies. The streets where we stand [...]

  103. Obama: Who Does He Think He Is?

    → Flopping Aces | 24 Jul 2008 | 2:21 pm MDT

    “For the first few months of the campaign, the question about Obama was: Who is he? The question now is: Who does he think he is?” –Charles Krauthammer Obama in Berlin: “Ich bin ein beginner” For all Obama’s rhetoric about Americans visiting Europe and not being able to say anything more than “merci beaucoup” is it arrogant [...]

  104. Window Washer

    → House of Eratosthenes | 24 Jul 2008 | 2:11 pm MDT

    Things are not always what they seem to be.

  105. Is a pro-Western Iraq any less utopian than a democratic Iraq?

    → View from the Right | 24 Jul 2008 | 1:47 pm MDT

    In his latest article at NRO, Andrew McCarthy says that democracy in Iraq should not be the goal of our...

  106. Edwards story blacked out by mainstream media

    → View from the Right | 24 Jul 2008 | 1:44 pm MDT

    At 2:40 a.m. on July 22 National Enquirer reporters caught John Edwards, the former Democratic Party nominee for vice president,...

  107. The GOP Oil Ultimatum

    → California Conservative | 24 Jul 2008 | 1:19 pm MDT

    (H/T: Captain Ed) According to this article in the Hill, Senate Republicans have issued an ultimatum to Harry Reid. Here&#8217;s what the Hill is reporting: Senate Republicans have threatened to block nearly all other bills pending before the August recess if Democrats refuse to vote with them on expanding offshore drilling. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said [...]

  108. The Benefits of Ethnic Cleansing

    → California Conservative | 24 Jul 2008 | 12:39 pm MDT

    Note the following exchange that occurred when ABC&#8217;s Terry Moran interviewed Sen. Obama : Moran asked what Iraq would look like now if Obama&#8217;s policy of withdrawing in the face of the violence had been implemented. &#8220;That is a hard thing to speculate,&#8221; Obama said, &#8220;The Sunnis might have made the same decisions at that time. The [...]

  109. B. Hussein Obama Snubs Troops In Iraq

    → The Urban Grind | 24 Jul 2008 | 12:05 pm MDT

    Hat tip: Madeline This shouldn’t be surprising in the least. After all, this is a man who spent 20 years in the church of an America-hating pastor. And he refuses to salute our flag. So of course he’ll snub our troops. From a Battle Captain in Iraq: Hello everyone, As you know I am [...]

  110. Obama Tries to Appear Reaganesque In German Speech

    → Webloggin | 24 Jul 2008 | 11:50 am MDT

    Barack Obama, faker, spoke in Germany today and tried to ride the coat tails of a truly great man by lifting themes from President Ronald Reagan’s famous wall speech at the Brandenburg Gate in West Germany. In fact Barack Obama was so blatant in his attempts to appear Reaganesque that he attempted to deliver his speech [...]

  111. The Full Text Of Obama’s Berlin Speech

    → Sweetness & Light | 24 Jul 2008 | 11:49 am MDT

    Via ABC News: Thank you to the citizens of Berlin and to the people of Germany. Let me thank Chancellor Merkel and Foreign Minister Steinmeier for welcoming me earlier today. Thank you Mayor Wowereit, the Berlin Senate, the police, and most of all thank you for this welcome. I come to Berlin as so many of [...]



  112. Government To Decide Your Child’s Mental Health Status

    → Webloggin | 24 Jul 2008 | 11:39 am MDT

    You will soon have no rights over your own children: The government will be sending in specialists to evaluate your children medically, emotionally, physically, … for 5 medical conditions. “The federal definition of developmental screening for special education also includes what they call socioemotional screening, which is mental health screening,” Dr. Effrem said. “Mental [...]

  113. Senate Republicans Grow A Pair

    → Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler | 24 Jul 2008 | 11:32 am MDT

    …and about time it was too. Harry “Oil Makes Me Sick” Screed was planning on pulling a House Kommissar Pelousy and blocking any sort of vote on lifting the off-shore drilling ban, thus doing his part to keep prices sky high at the pump and American working families struggling. Unfortunately for him and his totalitarian ambitions (a [...]

  114. ‘Million Man Math’ Cost NYC $550,000

    → Sweetness & Light | 24 Jul 2008 | 11:11 am MDT

    Buried in the “Region” section of the New York Times: Garth Brooks performed in the North Meadow in 1997. Officials said that 750,000 people attended. Fuzzy Numbers at Bon Jovi’s Park Concert By Jim Dwyer July 24, 2008 In recent years, New York City has been going to great lengths to count the numbers of people who attend [...]



  115. Laughing At Dopey Men, One More Time

    → House of Eratosthenes | 24 Jul 2008 | 11:08 am MDT

    Cassy has a great post up about a film clip, plus some tee shirt designs, flying about the innernets to educate the fairer sex about what towering klutzes and assholes we are. Why Women Stay Single - video powered by Metacafe And she raises a good question about what kind of she-beast finds this stuff funny, closing [...]

  116. Obama Wonders Why Soldiers Are Always Watching Fox News

    → Latest Posts | 24 Jul 2008 | 9:02 am MDT



  117. Iraq Out Of Olympics For ‘Interference’

    → Sweetness & Light | 24 Jul 2008 | 9:00 am MDT

    From an overjoyed Associated Press: Two women walk past the main building housing the National Iraqi Olympic Committee in Baghdad, June 2008. IOC says Iraq won’t be allowed at Olympics LAUSANNE, Switzerland - The International Olympic Committee says Iraq will not compete at the Beijing Games because of interference by its government in sport. The IOC suspended [...]



  118. Flight 93 Memorial Blogburst: 9/11 Date To Be Placed As Star On Crescent & Star flag

    → Flopping Aces | 24 Jul 2008 | 8:30 am MDT

    Not all of us can make it to Pennsylvania next week to help Tom Burnett Sr. stop the re-hijacking of Flight 93, but if anyone needs another reason to try… The crescent memorial to Flight 93 will have the 9/11 date inscribed on a separate section of Memorial Wall that is centered on the [...]

  119. Bush Leaves Office And Anti-War Movement Evaporates?

    → Flopping Aces | 24 Jul 2008 | 7:43 am MDT

    AM I the only one who’s noticed the silence? Mere months ago, left-wing bloggers and demonstrators were wailing Support our troops, bring them home! seven days a week. Now their presidential candidate has announced that he won’t bring all those troops home, but will simply transfer combat forces from Iraq to Afghanistan - expanding that [...]

  120. That’s What I Want to Hear!!!

    → California Conservative | 24 Jul 2008 | 7:28 am MDT

    Hannity: Senator, I know because everywhere I go, people talk to me about the high price of gasoline and the impact that it&#8217;s having on their lives, the economy. Most Americans are angry when they find out that we have more resources here in the United States that we&#8217;re not tapping into. I&#8217;ve even argued [...]

  121. The Cat’s Out of the Bag?

    → California Conservative | 24 Jul 2008 | 5:45 am MDT

    Maria Cantwell committed a gaffe. Actually, she committed a major gaffe. In Washington, a gaff is when a politician accidently tells the truth. According to this WND article, Democrats won&#8217;t allow a vote on increasing drilling. Here&#8217;s what she said: In an interview with Bloomberg TV&#8217;s &#8220;Money and Politics&#8221; last night, Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., explained [...]

  122. Hypocrisy Alert: DNC Employees Receive Tax Free Gas In Denver In Possible Illegal Gift From City

    → Webloggin | 24 Jul 2008 | 5:42 am MDT

    Taxes Fine for You Lowly Peasants, Democrats Avoid Tax Pain At The Pump, Dem Mayor Lies About Republicans Earlier this year John McCain called for a gas tax holiday during the Summer in order to ease the burden of the cost of gasoline. Hillary Clinton agreed with the idea but Barack Obama and many other Democrats [...]

  123. Obama Campaigned At The ‘Wailing Wall’

    → Sweetness & Light | 24 Jul 2008 | 5:22 am MDT

    From those defenders of another faith at Reuters: Supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama stand behind banners printed with his name in Hebrew as they wait for his arrival at the Western wall in Jerusalem July 23, 2008. Supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama hold a banner printed with his name in Hebrew [...]



  124. New York Times: Meltdown Nearly Complete

    → Doug Ross @ Journal | 24 Jul 2008 | 4:24 am MDT

    The wonderfully managed New York Times Company just reported an 82% drop in profit for the second quarter. Meanwhile, print advertising revenue continued to shrink... Revenue dropped 6 percent to $741.9 million, missing the average Wall Street estimate for $754 million. Ad revenue slipped down 11 percent, hurt mostly by fewer classified ads. Look at the bright side: revenue only missed by $12



  125. Surge Successful By Any Measure, Pentagon Official Says

    → Latest Posts | 24 Jul 2008 | 12:07 am MDT



  126. The Bubble of Obama Supremacy

    → American Thinker | 24 Jul 2008 | 12:04 am MDT

    Barack Obama is riding within the biggest fantasy bubble this side of Oz. You know what happens to bubbles.

  127. Obama on Jerusalem, Properly Phrased

    → American Thinker | 24 Jul 2008 | 12:02 am MDT

    Barack Obama's continuing explanations of his AIPAC speech, in which he said Jerusalem "must remain undivided," raise more questions than they answer. Obama added yet another explanation yesterday in Sderot.

  128. A Murderer Acclaimed as a Hero

    → American Thinker | 24 Jul 2008 | 12:00 am MDT

    Is there any place other than in the psychopathology of the Arab world that a Kuntar--freed by Israel last week in exchange for mutilated corpses of two abducted soldiers -- could be acclaimed a "hero"?

  129. Great Moments in Democrat Communist Kleptocracy/Hypocrisy

    → Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler | 23 Jul 2008 | 10:23 pm MDT

    Once again, nothing terribly surprising here, but it still bears mention, if for no other reason then to make sure that every instance of such behavior is documented. We’re sure you know how the Democrats not only won’t allow the issue of domestic drilling to come to a vote (that’s House Kommissar Pelousy for ya) in [...]

  130. The Continuing Cost of Freedom

    → Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler | 23 Jul 2008 | 10:14 pm MDT

    On July 21, 1944 American forces landed on the coral strewn beaches of Guam against fierce Japanese resistance. It was a long awaited and much prayed for day for the suffering Chomorran peoples, who had been brutally repressed by the Japanese occupation forces. It was also poignant due to Guam being the first US territory [...]

  131. John Edwards: Just Another Lying, Cheating Democrat Caught Red Handed Doing Something He Claimed Not To Be Doing

    → Webloggin | 23 Jul 2008 | 8:28 pm MDT

    Why am I not surprised? It looks like the National Enquirer stayed on the case after rabid denials from John Edwards concerning his alleged affair with hired Edwards documentarian Rielle Hunter. The national Enquirer also claimed in December of 2007 that Hunter was pregnant with the Democrat Senator’s child. Yesterday and then again today the Enquirer [...]

  132. Another Ageist Stereotype From the Mainstream Media

    → Webloggin | 23 Jul 2008 | 6:12 pm MDT

    No Outrage As The Elderly Are Treated as Second Class Citizens By The Mainstream Media Hot on the heels of a Seattle Post-Intelligencer response to the New Yorker cartoon depicting John McCain using an ageist stereotype is Vanity Fair. Like the Seattle P-I cartoon the Vanity Fair version features John McCain in typical liberal mockery of [...]

  133. Quote o' the day: Respect and Unity

    → Doug Ross @ Journal | 23 Jul 2008 | 6:04 pm MDT

    Senator Barack Obama on the U.S. Military (via Astute Bloggers): That requires... us to... have... enough troops that we're not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous problems there. Michelle Obama is our runner-up for her optically frightening descriptions (New Yorker, 10 March 2008): I asked [Michelle Obama] if she was offended by Bill Clinton’s use of the



  134. Photo o' the day: Pals

    → Doug Ross @ Journal | 23 Jul 2008 | 5:47 pm MDT

    Reuters (via LGF): Perhaps this is why the Israelis are nervous about Senator "He's not the ___ I knew" Obama. A recent Haaretz article poses the question: "What's wrong with Obama?" There's no shortage of answers.



  135. Charlton Heston's Basement

    → Doug Ross @ Journal | 23 Jul 2008 | 5:02 pm MDT

    This is the late, great Charlton Heston's gun vault. And this isn't listed in Snopes, so it must be real! Clickety-click to zoom. I thought my Y2K bunker was pretty cool until I saw Heston's gun-vault.



  136. Microsoft kicks off the $300 million Vista salvage operation

    → Doug Ross @ Journal | 23 Jul 2008 | 4:51 pm MDT

    Gizmodo: Microsoft's $300 million campaign to return fire after Apple's "Mac vs. PC" ads with our buddy John Hodgman—which, like it or not, were a wildly successful campaign and definitely helped shape the public's perception of Vista—has begun with this image from microsoft.com ...It makes sense that Microsoft is going for a more conceptual ad here, rather than tick off a list of everything



  137. Fell Into a Hole

    → House of Eratosthenes | 23 Jul 2008 | 1:10 pm MDT

    Sonja really tripped me up good. I wrote yesterday about her bemoaning of our society’s loss of critical thinking…and she knows we’re losing it, because, as she says… As an adult convert (at the age of 30) who went to a regular liberal arts college and learned the art of critical thinking and discourse, I have been [...]

  138. The Shortsighted Reality of Vote Pandering BS

    → Webloggin | 23 Jul 2008 | 11:27 am MDT

    It’s no longer a phrase heard much anymore, but the Progressives used to title themselves “the reality based community.” They understood the real world, unlike the cruel, self-centered, self-serving conservatives surrounding them. Of course, that being the case, Obama must be the reality based candidate. However, Cheat-Seeking Missiles, riffing off a Washington Post editorial, points [...]

  139. Europeans For Obama

    → Webloggin | 23 Jul 2008 | 11:20 am MDT

    In an amusing article that compiles examples of American and European media hysteria about Obama’s world tour (think Madonna and the Beatles, only bigger), Denis Boyles makes an interesting point about the European fixation with an Obama (read:  black) Presidency: Anyway, the gist: Europeans really really want Obama to be the next U.S. president, just as [...]

  140. The Primacy of Self-Sacrifice

    → House of Eratosthenes | 23 Jul 2008 | 10:12 am MDT

    A couple weeks ago I had noted, again, that the politic