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Part 1 Part 2 Reason Magazine has an early report. Earlier this year, police in Tallahassee, Florida raided the home of college student Rachel Hoffman, who friends say was a bit of a hippie-ish free spirit, and concede that she shared and sold small amounts of marijuana and MDMA within her social circle. Hoffman was…

I’m going to go into some detail on the ships which is interesting in and of itself. However, the most interesting part to me is that the warships had to transit Turkey to arrive in the Black Sea. That I believe is the most critical development in the region of Georgia. Turkey is supporting Georgian…

M. Simon sent me an email link to a remarkable (apparently true) revelation about Barack Obama’s Communist mentor Frank Marshall Davis. If this account is correct, in an autobiography the man admitted to sex with a 13 year old. A girl, by the way. While more people would be upset had this happened with a…

After having been castigated for being uncertain about exactly how many houses (or how much real estate) his wife owned, John McCain has now spoken up in his own defense. I was delighted to see that he took issue with an idea that there’s something wrong with his wife inheriting property: “…I am blessed and…

I have been looking into a possible Obama – Chicago gang connection. So far all I have to go on is rumor and the knowledge that gangs such as the El Rukns and the Black P. Stone Nation are very big in Chicago politics. Then there is the Jesse Jackson, Jesse Jackson Jr. connection to…

In a posted opinion piece “Biden pick shows lack of confidence” a pundit suggests that Biden brings a lot to the table in terms of national security credibility. Biden brings a lot to the table. An expert on national security, the Delaware senator voted in 2002 to authorize military intervention in Iraq but has since…

No Quarter has this interesting bit of gossip: I asked a friend who knows someone who has seen the video to Michelle Obama making disparaging remarks about “white” folks. You know, those angry God hugging, gun toting mouth breathers. He wrote me the following: But there is a very strange air about Republican operatives. In…

I’m thinking that Obama’s pick of Joe Biden doesn’t go far enough. To really beat McCain, Obama needs to pursue a strategy of annihilation by total triangulation. As I pointed out in a comment to Simon’s post, I’d feel more comfortable if Obama had reached across the aisle and chosen a man with hands-on experience.…

One of the strangest things about Ann Arbor is the presence of ubiquitous signs like this one: They’re right in my neighborhood, but the reason I didn’t have a photograph of my confused self standing in front of one with Coco is that I don’t have an available photographer right now. But trust me. They…

So who will be answering the 3 AM phone call in an Obama Administration? Joe Biden

Well, it’s official. Joe Biden is Barack Obama’s vice presidential choice. Barack Obama picked Delaware Sen. Joseph Biden as his running mate, choosing a long-time Washington insider who could balance his thin resume on foreign policy over younger politicians who could have amplified the Democratic presidential candidate’s message of change. […] Sen. Biden, who has…

Tom Maguire at Just One Minute has lots more on the Obama/Ayres relationship here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here. Whew. And that is just in the last week. Update: A little more on Ayres’ educational philosophy. Scroll down.

The choice of Joe Biden for VP on the Obama ticket is a sign of desperation. I think I’m going to go over to DU and Kos to see if I can capture the howling. If I get anything tasty I’ll do a post.

Yesterday I did a piece on the decline of the fortunes of Iran and its best buddy Hizballah No Deal. Today I got some news that fleshes out the story. Since the 2008-09 marketing year began on June 1, Iran has bought more than one million tons of hard red winter wheat directly from the…

Michael Totten reports from Georgia On Monday, I visited one of the schools transformed into refugee housing in the center of Tbilisi and spoke to four women–Lia, Nana, Diana, and Maya–who had fled with their children from a cluster of small villages just outside the city of Gori. “We left the cattle,” Lia said. “We…

In a marvelous essay about the animal rights organization PETA, Michele Catalano touched on two of my pet peeves — animal rights and the tendency of shrill activists to drive ordinary people away by dominating issues they might support. PETA’s current attempt at activism only made me shake my head in dismay. Who are they…

The RNC has a page up covering Obama-Rezko Shady Deals. H/T Pal2Pal

I find it extremely annoying that the question of how many houses John McCain owns would be of any more interest to anyone than how many shares of stock he owns, how many cars, how many suits, how many websites, or how many guns. Anyway, when asked the question, McCain said he wasn’t sure (“I…

The only people who actually need to “define rich” are the folks who are trying to establish a threshhold for redistributing your money. Commenter JM hanes at Just One Minute