Surprising?  No.  Dangerous?  Definitely. 

Hey Martin:

…and says to you, “One of my favorite political philosophers is Adolph Hitler.”

You gag back your outrage or you say “are you insane?” Or you just excuse yourself and keep moving.

O.K., suppose someone from the White

Micheal Wade over at Q&O asks an interesting question:  Will Balloon Boy Be The New Schiavo?

I truly hope that I’m wrong. That cooler heads will prevail. That, if indeed the parents set this whole thing up as a publicity

From the Palm Treo, on the road:

Rep Rbt Wexler, (Florida’s answer to Cynthia McKinney) whose district includes Broward and Palm Beach Counties, will reportedly be resigning today. There’s a presser to happen at Boca later this morning, I’m unsure

Over in the UK, The Spectator notes;

Here is a little quiz. The Guardian has posted up a list here of everyone who has won the Nobel Peace Prize since its inception.

Q: Which three names are omitted from

I’m afraid I have to take a chunk out of the backside of Rick Moran:

The Baucus bill hasn’t a chance of surviving a conference committee between the House and Senate. But it might have if the GOP worked to

An interesting post at Q & O this morning.

David Warren, writing in the Ottawa Ciitzen, takes a look at some of the “Gorbachev/Obama” comparisons that some are doing and finds them wanting.  But, he does find one

An interesting “Mia Culpa” from the New York Times this morning, in the form of an article from Clark Hoyt, The Times “Public Editor”

ON Sept. 12, an Associated Press article inside The Times reported that the Census Bureau had

CBS News has learned that Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick will name former Democratic National Committee chairman Paul Kirk to the Senate seat left vacant by Ted Kennedy’s death last month.

After all the screaming about the the way Mass state

Surber this morning:

Democrat Nancy Pelosi cried like a little girl that those mean, un-American people on the other side frighten her.

Pelosi sobbed: “This kind of rhetoric is just, is really frightening and it created a climate

The use of the death of Ted Kennedy in support of the Democrats and their socialist-style takeover of our healthcare system has been widely noted and decried. It’s crass, at least. Cynical, as well. But it shows us just how

Any interesting if eminently predictable piece from Marc Stein this morning. Here’s a taste:

Still, what do I know? Evidently, it’s stimulated the sign-making industry, putting America back to work by putting up “PUTTING AMERICA BACK TO WORK” signs

Michael D. Shear and Ceci Connolly, Washington Post, happen upon the truth.    Albeit,  I am not sure they realize it:

President Obama’s advisers acknowledged Tuesday that they were unprepared for the intraparty rift that occurred over the fate of

David Boaz has noticed a pattern… one we’ve mentioned here before.

Some people on the left can’t see any excuse for opposition to collectivism except racism. (Which is, of course, as Ayn Rand said, “the lowest, most crudely primitive

An interesting, if occasionally infuriating piece from Michael Ledeen at Pajamas Media this morning.  A snip and a couple comments:

I studied fascism primarily because I wanted-desperately-to understand how so many people could have appeased it.  Did they-and by

Frankly I think there are few people on the sphere who bring greater gravitas to the entire matter about the Gates /Crowley affair than Sister Toldjah. Yesterday morning’s post on that point reinforces that perception.

— President Obama expressed “regret”