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How dare a local Philadelphia CBS affiliate ask Joe Biden anything but softball questions? How dare they? Naturally, the station has been put on the campaign blacklist. Hmmm… With all the talk about media bias, I think outlets like this should be singled out for praise. I’m also wondering whether pliant news outlets that inevitably…

I’m sorry to read (via Hugh Hewitt) that Dean Barnett has died. Hugh Hewitt remembers him, and his inspiring desire to live despite a battle with Cystic Fibrosis that shortened his life: Dean told me early in our friendship that his disease had forced him to deal with the possibility of living too short a…

Red State has an interesting anecdote about some Democrats who got together to vote early. Yesterday, I heard a great story from a friend who describes herself as a “Legacy Democrat” she says that everyone in her family has been a registered Democrat as far back as she can remember – parents, grandparents, great-grandparents… you…

In an email, I was sent a painfully funny video showing a character played by the buffoonish William Shatner who Newsbusters describes as, “helping” Barack Obama as he defends the Second Amendment. I’ve never seen the series it’s from, but the episode is discussed here.

A mannequin dressed up to look like Sarah Palin is hanging by a noose in front of a West Hollywood home. WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (AP) ? A Halloween decoration showing a mannequin dressed as vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin hanging by a noose from the roof of a West Hollywood home is drawing giggles from…

I love this explanation of the tax code which has been floating around for several years: Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this: The first four…

Speaking of outrages, don’t miss the recording of an on air PBS interview from 2001 in which Barack Obama discusses how best to implement the redistribution of wealth. (M. Simon linked it earlier, and I don’t want to be duplicative, so just scroll down to his post to listen.) Obama says that the courts might…

I think I’ve figured out what may be going on with the Philadelphia Inquirer writer whose recent column argued that white people should not be allowed to vote, and because it touches on a longstanding paradox, I thought it merited a post. This is not about the merits of the deliberately inflammatory argument that white…

Yep. White people are messing up the election. But there is a fix for that. Don’t allow them to vote. As a lifelong Caucasian, I am beginning to think the time has finally come to take the right to vote away from white people, at least until we come to our senses. Seriously, I just…

This bit by Obama advocating wealth redistribution was up at Drudge but I got my hint from Hill Buzz. One point that Hill Buzz makes is that the Obots have not shown up to contest this bit of history. Here is their theory: Whenever Obama is in trouble, these people clam up. The worse something…

Sgt. Mom looks at the deep wounds Sarah Palin has opened in the guts of the American aristocracy. Sarah is not one of them. She is a mom with five children. Way above the 2.1 considered normal. She kills her own food. A job best left to the servants. All in all a backwoods rube…

Apparently there’s no end to defecting conservatives: I’m announcing my full support for Senator Obama because trillion-dollar-a-go-go entitlements, tax hikes, socialized health care, and federally-funded day care for three-year-olds are exactly what we small-government conservatives are looking for. So says Mark Steyn, in a real shocker which Glenn Reynolds linked earlier. Better read it all.…

A few choice quotes, as overheard at the United Nations: One American employee here seemed puzzled that he was being asked whether Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) was even a consideration. “Obama was and is unstoppable,” the official said. “Please, God, let him win,” he added. […] “It would be hard to find anybody, I think,…

Gas prices are falling so fast that I’m actually worried: CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) – A national survey shows gas prices continue to decline, tumbling nearly 53 cents a gallon in the last two weeks. The average price of a gallon of regular gasoline at self-serve stations was $2.78 Friday. Mid-grade was at $2.93 and premium…

Obama’s Computer McCain’s Computer

The folks at Hillbuzz have managed to corner a Real Pollster™ to find out what is really going on in this election. I was having dinner a night ago with a friend of mine who is a statistician for a well-regarded private polling company. They do some work for Republicans in California, but most of…

It might be a bit late in the game for my liking, but I’m glad to see that McCain is finally raising what I think is the best argument in his favor: ALBUQUERQUE (Reuters) – Republican presidential nominee John McCain , trailing in the polls, raised the prospect on Saturday of a complete Democratic takeover…

Reason links this very amusing YouTube video showing Bill Ayers calling the cops on reporters and Bill O’Reilly advising Obama to throw Ayers under the bus: (Via Glenn Reynolds who’s having fun with O’Reilly putting on Ayers.) While I also love the delicious irony of seeing a man with a notoriously murderous attitude towards police…

You think you have First Amendment rights? Well, yes, you do. But try saying something that offends the ruling class, and you’ll see what happens. In a previous post, I characterized the invasion of Joe the Plumber’s privacy thusly: The way they have done a complete, invasive background check on this citizen is shocking. While…

I love the logic at work here. Nervousness about Barack Obama hurts the market. Yet the more the market hurts, the higher Obama goes in the polls. This would seem to be correlated in this chart: This reminds me of the way people who are afraid of getting bitten by a dog will often end…