Daily Dope

Courtesy James Lewis, American Thinker:

For Barack and Michelle Obama, the biggest blind spot is Ego Tripping — the temptations of boastful grandiosity. It’s Obama’s need to be seen as Jesus Christ Superstar. They have to “remake the world,”

• I managed to catch a first place this week at OTB’s Caption Contest.
• for the last week or so, we’ve brought up John Edwards and his scandal. Kaus has been watching this for a while too, all credit to

Captain Ed:

NBC’s Jim Miklaszewski and Courtney Kube get the skinny on the abrupt cancellation of Barack Obama’s visit to Landstuhl and Ramstein yesterday.  The campaign tried to excuse it by claiming that it wouldn’t be appropriate to visit while

Micheal Falcone has written an interesting article for the New York Times, “McCain Ad Takes On Obama Over Gas Prices.”   The close of the article:

Don’t hope for more energy, vote for it. McCain.

BO’s mantra has

We have a national energy problem and she is pictured to the left.   Mrs. Pelosi has gone from being pig-headed to dangerous, Investor’s Business Daily:

Any leader with an energy record as derelict as Speaker Pelosi’s ought to step

Senator Obama this morning said that he wants a foreign policy that is “tough, smart, and principled.” This afternoon, I ask: was it tough when Senator Obama voted to order U.S. forces to retreat from Iraq on a fixed timeline—regardless

• I have to wonder if the mostly manufactured response over Gramm’s comments as I mentioned this morning, isn’t an effort to squelch the noise over Jessie Jackson’s call to castrate Obama.
• Ya know, speaking of Jackson… I had a passing

I’ve been watching the deterioration of Matt Yglesias for several months now. What is bols down to is the level of excuses Yglesias, or any liberal, for that matter, is willing to make to keep himself blissfully ignorant of the

From Rush H. Limbaugh, Jr. (Father of notable EIB radio host, Rush.)
“…our lives, our fortunes, our sacred honor…”
It was a glorious morning. The sun was shining and the wind was from the southeast. Up especially early, a tall,

The old jobe is that a conservative is liberal who was mugged.  Greg Sargent, TPM, reports Brian Beutler, was shoot in the course of mugging in DC:

Brian Beutler, a well-known progressive blogger, was shot and seriously injured during

I favor a hard time table.  This one is lost.  It is time to set an irreversable deadline to withdraw all taxpayer funding from PBS.  Michelle has news of yet another effort  by PBS to trash America:

Adam Buckman at

Boy Scout Oath:

AJ Strata has been watching with some interest the demise of al-Qaeda.  Today, he remarks:

It is alarming even to me how drastically al-Qaeda’s future as changed recently.  After 9-11 they were the future hope of Islam after they

Tiger Hawk answers a question I quoted VDH as asking earlier today, when he said:

And why are Republicans, who voted in overwhelming numbers for off-shore drilling, ANWR, nuclear, shale, tar sands, liquid coal, etc—and were opposed by Democrats on

• 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.
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