Church of the Bloody Well Obvious: Liberals are Less Honest

Hume last night:

Some recent surveys suggest a striking gap between liberals and conservatives on the issue of honesty. Polling by an organization called The World Values Survey posed the question, “Is it OK to cheat on your taxes?”

Fifty-seven

An interesting admission on this Obama tape thing I mentioned yesterday and the day before, from Jim Geraghty at NRO:

The preponderance of the evidence now suggests that there’s nothing there. One of the arguments that made me think there

I make no secret of the fact that I think Bob Barr to be a nut case taht I want nowhere near the White House, even on a tour f the place, but give the man credit, for this at

Apparently Robert Byrd has been hospitalized:

U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd was admitted to a hospital Monday evening because of a high temperature, his spokesman said.

“He came into the office today, and he was a little sluggish,” said

• You really have to wonder what motivates people sometimes, when you see stories like this one.
• But… Obama could no more disown his church, than he could disown his…. Oh.. Wait. Never mind.
• Of Hamburgers, food police, and such.
• I

Story just moved on the AP wire, reporting that Bo Diddley has died.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) – A spokeswoman says rock pioneer Bo Diddley has died. He was 79.

The spokeswoman says Diddley died of heart failure Monday. He had

PARIS -AP- Legendary designer Yves Saint Laurent, who reworked the rules of fashion by putting women into elegant pantsuits that came to define how modern women dressed, died Sunday evening, a longtime friend and associate said. He was 71

James Joyner points up that there’s no tape from Larry Johnson, yet. OTOH, he also points out that Larry’s servers are smoking hulks from the traffic this thing’s been getting. Aside from possibly explaining why no post from Johnson yet,

Something from Political Punch catches my eye this morning:

In another excerpt from Rev. Michael Pfleger’s sermon last Sunday, May 25, from the pulpit of Sen. Barack Obama’s now former church, Trinity United Church of Christ on the South side

I’ve been telling you that this oil bubble was about to break and we’d see some movement by midsummer. Well, guess what?

The Times Herald is repoting:

Last week, the price of crude oil futures actually went down, and there

The Telepgraph is reporting:

A police community support officer ordered two Christian preachers to stop handing out gospel leaflets in a predominantly Muslim area of Birmingham.

The evangelists say they were threatened with arrest for committing a “hate crime” and

Larry Johnson says he’s got a new Michelle Obama vid that’s been rumored to exist for some months now, that puts to rest the cries of innocence coming from the Obamas as regards their racist views. Supposed to be out

Losing The Election

(Sung to the tune of “Losing my religion”)

The election’s bigger
It’s bigger than Religion
And you are not me
The lengths that I will go to
to get that oval office….
Oh no, I’ve said

In the mail, just now:

FW: Axis of Idiots

“The Axis of Idiots”

Jimmy Carter, you are the father of the Islamic Nazi movement.  You threw the Shah under the bus, welcomed the Ayatollah home, and then lacked the

THERE’S BEEN a relative lull in news coverage and debate about Iraq in recent weeks — which is odd, because May could turn out to have been one of the most important months of the war. While Washington’s attention has