Obama And the Balance Act

I’ve beend saying for some time now that even Obama doesn’t believe half of what he spews. I’ve also been saying that his pandering would catch up to him eventually. And, here we are, in the New York Times,

• The middle class is moving out of SanFrancsico, bigtime.  The reason: Housing costs, (Read that, taxes)
• Meanwhile, in another socialist paradise, Mugabe wins by default. In spite of the vote.
• One of our favorite places to vacation is downeast

From the paper that still can’t get over the idea that Hillary Clinton won’t be the next President, the NY Times:

When VeraSun Energy inaugurated a new ethanol processing plant last summer in Charles City, Iowa, some of that industry’s

June 22, 2008 -NY Post- Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are heading for a meeting of the money.

As the ex-foes are scheduled to sit down face to face this week and talk fund-raising, each needs to leave the

(RTTNews) – Oil production in Saudi Arabia will be raised, although officials in the oil-rich nation are expressing doubts as to its affects on the rising price of crude in the global market.

After an oil “summit” Sunday in Jeddah,

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Comedian George Carlin, a counter-culture hero famed for his routines about drugs, dirty words and the demise of humanity, died of heart failure at a Los Angeles-area hospital on Sunday. He was 71.
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You know, it would be laughable if it were not so tragic.

Mike Allen at Politico:

With the cost of gas a top issue in the presidential campaign, Barack Obama on Sunday will announce a plan to crack down on

James Joyner at OTB mentions the current reading at Electoral-vote.com and says:

If the election were held today, Barack Obama would cruise to victory with 317 Electoral Votes to John McCain’s 194, according to projections tabulated by Electoral-Vote.com. Florida,

JACKSONVILLE, Florida (Reuters) – Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama said on Friday he expects Republicans to highlight the fact that he is black as part of an effort to make voters afraid of him.

Republicans? Seems to me the only

Usually, when McQ breaks out the “Project Hero” header, there’s a medal involved. IN this case, not so. Yet, the kind of courage exhibited by Sgt Merlin German, deserves to be honored, nonetheless. McQ tells the tale.

Project Hero,

An interesting note at the LA Times Blog this morning:

Led by chairman Mike Duncan, the Republican National Committee ended May with 13 times more money in the bank than its Democratic counterpart, and raised five times as much

• Billy passes along a list of articles from Investor’s Busienss Daily, thirty in all inclduing a couple I’ve linked previously. It’s a must read, if you really want the unspun facts.
• Bruce talks here about the Politics of Drilling.

Ben Castlemen at the WSJ this morning points out that lifting the drilling ban would not be an immididate fix for our situation.

If the bans were lifted tomorrow, it would be at least seven years — and likely as

• Interesting post over at OTB on the finding of a possible cause for homosexuality. this raises all the poits I raised as  far back as 1998, as you’ll see in the comments, there.  Oh, they’re apparently getting very close indeed

Found this while digging around in my archive tapes for something else, dated 2001. Source at the moment is unknown.  I only managed to get part if the file back off the tape.

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Fact 1 -The Coastal Plain of