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I am probably not what most people would consider “Joe Six-pack.” Nor, I suspect, are most of the readers of this blog. The term usually denotes the kind of guy who’s unlikely to be reading blogs. According to the effete Wikipedia, “Joe Sixpack” is a sub-category of “John Q. Public,” and a lower one at…

No Quarter has a fascinating article on Obama’s past. It runs down in detail Senator Obama’s socialist past. Did you know that Barack Obama was affiliated with a leading national socialist party? Barack Obama didn’t include in his 2008 resume that he entered politics in the mid-1990s endorsed by Chicago’s leading socialists. This just keeps…

While this really can’t be called live-blogging the debate (or the Town Hall meeting), I thought I’d weigh in with a few thoughts while watching it. I have been watching Barack Obama mischaracterize the economic problem as being caused by deregulation, and I wish McCain would come back at him harder. Unfortunately, he’s limited by…

If this doesn’t make Barack Obama lose the endorsement of the Humane Society of the United States, I don’t know what will: Senator Barack Obama, recently taking more criticism for his associations with unrepentant terrorist William Ayers and racist preacher Jeremiah Wright, has now been found to have yet another questionable associate: Blogger and brutal…

David Axelrod is having a hard time explaining when Mr. Obama first found out William “Bomber Bill” Ayers was a domestic terrorist. So when did Obama find out that Ayers had been a member of an organization the FBI called a “domestic terrorist” group, and had been for years a fugitive from the law? “I…

I probably complain too much about runaway federal regulations, but this time, I’m going to do more than complain. I’m going to offer praise for a solution. We are now so regulated that nearly every one of us has become a federal criminal of one sort or another. While most Americans won’t wind up in…

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The election is over, says Howard Wolfson. It’s over because the economy is more important than Bill Ayers, and therefore, what Wolfson calls “swiftboat tactics” won’t work. While I often wish the election were over so I could blog about other things, Wolfson’s simplistic dichotomy rests on two major assumptions: 1. that the current economic…

Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Cross Posted at Power and Control

Is this some kind of prank? Please tell me it is. I can’t stand much more of this nonsense. You’d almost think they were inviting people to violate Godwin’s Law. Seriously, I want it to be comedy.

Spengler explains why America with all its problems is still a safe haven for the world’s capital. He blames it on hockey moms. Why do Asian investors depend on American capital markets? Given the near breakdown of key sectors of the American market, one might expect Asians to bring their money home. Quite the opposite…

It occurs to me that I may have missed a latent homophobia-tinged subtext somewhere in the last post (about the sexist and racist aspects of Photoshopping candidates into the “Rosie” World War II icon now claimed by feminists). Any such omission was inadvertent — whether there was any homophobic subext to be found or not.…

When I saw a picture of this button in today’s Detroit Free Press, I was, well, riveted! But I immediately realized I was falling behind the times. I’m late to the “Rosie” game, because I see that Sarah Palin’s face on the iconic image has already drawn feminist criticism: Today a colleague of mine showed…

B. Obama and unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers were on a panel together in 1997 sponsored by the University of Chicago discussing Bill’s book A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court. Bill thinks the government can be a good parent to children as opposed to the bad parents who allow kids into a…

Sarah Palin made a surprise visit to the town I grew up in. Omaha. Sarah Palin’s fans could give Obamaphiles a run in the devotion department if the more than 5,000 people who listened Sunday to her Omaha speech are any indication. Palin’s supporters hailed the folksy Alaska governor as a “real person” who could…

“blogging is about living freely in writing, in real time, in front of the world.” — Althouse “I do this to entertain me, not you.” — SayUncle “finding a needle in a haystack is easy when the straws are all computerized” — Dexter I like to think that I live freely in my writing, that…

More than one person has asked me why the polls are so out of whack with what they see as their reality. So what is that reality? I think a few anecdotes are in order. First from commenter Daddy at Just One Minute. Arriving in Indy about midnight I asked the 2 female bus drivers…

Sarah Palin commented on the New York Times story I discussed yesterday, and here’s what she said: “Turns out one of Barack’s earliest supporters is a man who, according to The New York Times, and they are hardly ever wrong, was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote, launched a campaign of…

One of Andrew Sullivan’s ever-at-the-ready readers is upset by the fact that Sarah Palin winked, and compares her unfavorably to other women: I just want to ask: can anyone, anyone, imagine Condoleeza Rice or Margaret Thatcher or even Hillary Clinton for God’s sake, winking at the nation and/or being coquettish in any national format? Yeah.…

It seems like the Obamas paid a lot of money for law degrees and yet they no longer have licenses. That is kind of strange. Let us start with Barack and see if we can trace the demise of his law career. Obama relinquished his Illinois law license in early 2007. Why would Obama give…