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Posted at 9:56pm on Jul. 3, 2008 On Obama's Latest Nuance...

By Neil Stevens

Time-Life presents: Barack Obama's positions on the issues.

• Volume 1: The Illinois Years
• Volume 2: The Senate Years
• Volume 3: Iowa
• Volume 4: Before Wright
• Volume 5: After Grandma
• Volume 6: Before Labor Day
• Volume 7: October
• Volume 8: Election Day

Each volume is luxuriously bound in leather, with the official seal of the Obama campaign embossed. Plus, if you order now, you get a deluxe desk shelf, expandable for future volumes as needed.

Posted at 9:24pm on Jul. 3, 2008 BTW, if you appreciate good contortions...

By Moe Lane

...TPM is spinning like anything Obama's mulligan press conference.

Posted at 8:55pm on Jul. 3, 2008 "The Olbermann Squirm."

By Moe Lane

Yeah, watching THAT will be fun.

But not as much fun as seeing various Lefties suddenly becoming the Worst Person in the World. I somehow suspect that it won't be a perverse point of pride for them...

Posted at 8:00pm on Jul. 3, 2008 Fausta Wertz puts my FARC hostage rescue roundup to shame...

By Moe Lane

...then again, it's more her patch than mine. Check it out.

Posted at 6:51pm on Jul. 3, 2008 This would be from Obama's *second* press [conference] on this topic. [Comments enabled]

By Moe Lane

Being the one that he had to put together in order to "clarify" his first one.

(pause)

Well, they say that three's the charm.

Comments enabled. I figure that the spinning on this should be funny.

Posted at 11:52am on Jul. 3, 2008 Ah, bias

By Neil Stevens

The AP today starts a report today beating the drums of doom:

Employers cut payrolls by 62,000 in June, the sixth straight month of nationwide job losses, underscoring the economy's fragile state. The unemployment rate held steady at 5.5 percent.

Do you think that under a Democrat, the reporting would have been the other way around, perhaps going like so?

The unemployment rate held steady in June, remaining at 5.5 percent, underscoring the economy's resilience against reports that employers cut payrolls by 62,000, marking the sixth straight month of recorded losses.

Maybe.

Posted at 9:01am on Jul. 3, 2008 "Aim small. Miss small."

By Feddie

To get y'all ready for the Fourth of July weekend, here's a classic scene from "The Patriot."

Posted at 11:55pm on Jul. 2, 2008 The Fabulous FISA Flip-Flop

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

Via Patterico, we see that Glenn Greenwald is really going after Patterico with a vengeance over his decision to support FISA reform. I'll remain silent over all other matters . . . except to say that I agree with Patterico that now would be a very good time for a fresh batch of popcorn.

Posted at 11:53pm on Jul. 2, 2008 E.J. Dionne Doesn't Understand The Various Schools Of Constitutional Interpretation. Film At Eleven

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

See here. And more on this issue can be found here. It would behoove Dionne to issue a correction, but suffice it to say, I am not holding my breath.

Posted at 1:28pm on Jul. 2, 2008 Faith Without the Faith

By Mark I

I'm not normally enamored of Bill Donohue, but this is pretty good stuff.

“Any church or religious agency that agrees to take federal money on the condition that it must operate in a secular fashion—in hiring and in disseminating its values—is selling out. If Orthodox Jews running a day care center are not allowed to exclusively hire Orthodox Jews, there is nothing kosher about it. If a Catholic foster care program cannot place Catholic children with Catholic parents, it is doing a disservice to the children. If an evangelical drug rehab program can’t deliver a Christian message to its clients, it may as well close up shop. But that’s what Obama wants—he wants to secularize the religious workplace.

“No wonder Obama said yesterday that ‘I’m not saying that faith-based groups are an alternative to government or secular nonprofits, and I’m not saying that they’re somehow better at lifting people up.’ Indeed, if he really believes this then he might as well withdraw his initiative.

“The whole purpose behind funding faith-based programs is that they are, in fact, superior to secular programs. And the reason they are has everything to do with the inculcation of religious values disseminated by people of faith. No matter, Obama wants to gut the religious values and bar religious agencies from hiring people who share their religion. Hence, his initiative is a fraud.”

Posted at 9:53am on Jul. 2, 2008 "McCain, Obama, and the Catholic Vote"

By Feddie

Ryan T. Anderson has an interesting piece on the battle between McCain and Obama for the "Catholic Vote" in the latest Weekly Standard.

Posted at 9:40am on Jul. 2, 2008 From Unity to Slaughter

By Feddie

A great political cartoon by Zach Brissett.

Posted at 10:55pm on Jul. 1, 2008 I should have mentioned this about Nancy Pelosi a while back.

By Moe Lane

I've been critical of Madame Speaker in the past, so I feel obligated to say: the way she gave the netroots the business when she gutted opposition to the FISA bill? Neatly done, that.

Posted at 8:13pm on Jul. 1, 2008 Healthy eating "the new patriotism," says Denver mayor

By Jeff Emanuel

Remember the good old days when Patriotism was Patriotism, and there was no need for a "new" definition?

Yeah. Me too.

This Cox Newspapers article is presented without further comment:

Democratic convention to be no-fry zone

By Scott Shepard
Cox News Service
Article Last Updated: 06/26/2008 08:45:08 PM MDT

DENVER — Warning to Southern delegates to the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver this August: it will be a no-fry zone.

As part of the effort to make the August 25-28 convention the greenest ever, the Democrats' guidelines for food catering include one that strikes at the heart of Southern cuisine: no fried food.

No fried chicken. No fried catfish. No fried green tomatoes. No fried okra. No fried anything.

In promoting healthy eating habits, the Democratic guidelines say every meal should be nutritious and include "at least three of the following colors: red, green, yellow, purple/blue and white."

"It's the new patriotism," says Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, the driving force behind the greening of the Democratic convention.

However, if presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain starts gaining in the polls on Barack Obama, who will accept the Democratic nomination in Denver, the Democrats may find they've got bigger fish to fr? - uh, make that - bake.

Posted at 5:44pm on Jul. 1, 2008 "Wildcatter" Paul Hilliard

By Vladimir

Having been pre-empted by President Bush's news conference on North Korea's game of once again playing us as chumps dismantling of their nuclear program, CNBC's morning show Squawk Box has scheduled my boss, the inestimable Paul Hilliard of Badger Oil Corporation, for an interview.

The live interview is now set for tomorrow morning, Wednesday, July 2, at 7:40 a.m. ET (6:40 a.m. here in flyover country). The boss usually manages to make his comments both pithy and entertaining. I urge you to view/TiVo.

Posted at 4:41pm on Jul. 1, 2008 Obama's media advantage

By Kevin Holtsberry

Obama is leading John McCain these days. Do you think this little fact might be involved?

Project for Excellence in Journalism study analyzing election coverage over the past week finds overall, Obama was the dominant factor in 82% of election stories while McCain was in 40%.

Posted at 1:43pm on Jul. 1, 2008 Paul Kanjorski: Terrorism, National Security, Foreign Policy not "Substantive Issues"

By Jeff Emanuel

“Thank goodness this is a presidential election year. We really need new leadership. People will be voting on substantive issues in this election – the economy, health care, education.”

-Congressman Paul Kanjorski (D-PA-11)
April 28, 2008
Wilkes-Barre, PA

Source. Clearly the 2004 election, which saw so many voters cast their ballots for the candidate they thought best suited to keep the country secure, prosecute the Global War on Terror, and conduct foreign policy, wasn't based on anything "substantive," but rather was a temper tantrum thrown by a population that was led by the nose into superficial electoral decision-making.

Thank goodness Paul Kanjorski is around to remind us what the substantive issues are -- "the economy, health care, education" (not coincidentally, also issues on which Barack Obama's HopeChangeNoRegardForReality platform would cause more problems for America) -- and to make sure we don't slip into that 2004 mindset in which we actually care about keeping our country safe, not losing wars, etc.

Posted at 10:00pm on Jun. 30, 2008 Of Speculation And Onions

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

Good point. Let's see if anyone in Congress takes note of this fact the next time we have demagoguery about speculation and speculators.

Posted at 2:06pm on Jun. 30, 2008 Remember, folks:

By Moe Lane

Obama supporter.

(Via JammieWearingFool, who has more.)