Barack Obama Plays Race Card, Albeit Poorly

Bob Lewis, Associated Press, writes of Barack Obama trying  to play the race card:

Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record) said Tuesday that the Bush administration has done nothing to defuse a “quiet riot” among blacks

Our friend Don Surber notes the number of stories showing up about the Republican front runners and their supposedly ‘trophy’ wives.

My Tennessee bureau is all upset by it, but Margery Eagan’s column in the Boston Herald was a hoot:

TOKYO-AP- Honda Motor Co., Japan’s No. 2 automaker, will continue to make gas-and-electric models of its Civic sedan, but stop offering the hybrid Accord with the new model expected to go on sale later this year, company spokesman Yoshiyuki Kuroda

Ah, yes… it must be that time, again:

WASHINGTON —AP- In a rare public discussion of her husband’s infidelity, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that she probably could not have gotten through her marital troubles without relying

John McCain channels Jesse Jackson. McCain threatens a long hot summer riots unless his pet amnesty bill is passed.   Byran, Hot Air, has the video.   Hell no John, we will not surrender to twelve million illegals   We are Americans,

WASHINGTON —AP- Wyoming Sen. Craig Thomas, a three-term conservative Republican who stayed clear of the Washington limelight and political catfights, died Monday. He was 74.

The senator’s family issued a statement saying he died Monday evening at National Naval Medical

William Jefferson(D-LA) has been indited on sixteen counts of ccrruption.  Don Suber says dump the presumption of innocence and prepare the jail cell.

Congressman headed for the cooler
Democratic Congressman William “the Refrigerator” Jefferson of Louisiana finally faces 16

Steve Gilbert, Sweetness & Light, has a great photo esssay of urban warfare in Germany:

ROSTOCK, Germany (AFP)

An estimated 100,000 protestors from anti-globalisation and anti-war groups will gather in this northeastern German port on Saturday to

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (CNN ) – Columnist and author Eric Alterman was arrested Sunday night inside the debate spin room and charged with criminal trespass after police say he refused repeated orders to leave.

Here’s to the cop doing the

A Polish man emerges from a nineteen year coma to find himself living in strange new world:

WARSAW, Poland (Reuters) — A 65-year-old railwayman who fell into a coma following an accident in communist Poland regained consciousness 19

Once a Clinton stooge, always a Clinton stooge.

On ABC’s ,This Week, George Stephanopoulos, got bamboozled by an idiot, John Murtha. video here.   Hint George, the Nine-Eleven hijacker came from Saudi Arabia.

Noel Sheppard, NewsBusters, elaboratesL

Sadly, Stephanopoulos didn’t

Will Chris Dodd fire this blogger? Ace has details

“LOS ANGELES, Calif. (Reuters) -: An aspiring physicist was sentenced to more than eight years in prison on Monday and ordered to pay $3.5
million for his role in a spree of arson and vandalism that targeted gas-guzzling Hummers and

Mrs. Pelosi promsed to drain the republican swamp.  Mrs. Pelosi lied.  Rather than draining the congressional swamp, Mrs Pelosi is infesting it. Andrew Taylor, Associated Press, reports on Mrs. Pelosi’s lastest infestation:

After promising unprecedented openness regarding Congress’ pork

* The oil companies are making on the order of 8¢ a gallon for gasoline. Meanwhile, the smallest tax on a gallon of gasoline comes up to 27¢, that being in the state of Alaska. Here in New York, it