Of Charity, And the Left And REAL Charity, And the Rest of Us

From the Daily Mail:

George Orwell once wrote that politics was closely related to social identity. ‘One sometimes gets the impression,’ he wrote in The Road To Wigan Pier, ‘that the mere words socialism and communism draw towards them with

I see See-Dubya is watching the endorsement list. Maybe I ought to as well, if they’re mostly as amusing as this:

Dan Boren from Oklahoma’s second district-“Little Dixie”-seems more than a bit agnostic about the Obamessiah, whom he dubs the

I think Clinton may be willing to offer Obama the vice presidency.”

Ron Chusid, Liberal Values.

Mrs. Clinton refusing to play by the Drive by Media’s rules.

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Glenn:

THE CNN FOLKS emailed this tidbit from Howard Kurtz’s Reliable Sources:

KURTZ: But Marie Cocco, are the media being tarred with a pretty broad brush here because of the out-of-bounds comments of a certain number of loudmouths?

COCCO: Well,

Heh… It’s almost fun to watch the pain of the New York Times, as they’re forced to relate:

LONDON — Boris Johnson, the floppy-haired media celebrity and Conservative member of Parliament who transformed himself from a shambling, amusing-aphorism-uttering figure

Yes, I noticed the interview, though admittedly I didn’t watch it. Rather, I read the transcript.

Suffice to say, I’m not impressed. He came over to Fox, making a lot of noises he must ahve figured would be popular

The protracted and increasingly acrimonious fight for the Democratic presidential nomination is unnerving core constituencies — African Americans and wealthy liberals — who are becoming convinced that the party could suffer irreversible harm if Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton maintains her

The Campaign Spot, earlier today, says:

Liberal radio talk show host Ed Schultz calls John McCain a warmonger at an Obama rally, and the Obama campaign issues a terse statement that he shouldn’t be called that term (and

Apparently, the Obama camp has decided that backtracking… actually wearing the flag pion, claiming fealty to America, and creating feel-good images of Jeramiah Wright, is the only way that they’re going to get out of the box they’ve been set

Only a Liberal Democrat could turn a Terrorist into a Victim

I was just listening to a fairly uninspired discussion on NPR about race and the coverage of the Democratic primary (while driving to the airport). One interesting tidbit from the Washington Post’s Kevin Merida is that the Obama campaign has

Victor Davis Hanson pretty much agrees with my read of Clinton’s PA win last night:

Hillary won just enough to show that it is ludicrous to oust a 10-point winner at this late junction, but not quite the blow-out that

Curses another nefarious plot uncovered and foiled. The liberal intellects over at the Puffiington Post and unearthed yet another white male plot to oppress all women, snotty Hollywood screen writers.

Nora Ephron, Puffington Post exposes her greatest fear, white

Limbaugh likes to say on his radio program, that he IS balance for the liberal press. And in many ways, he’s quite right. So an interesting angle on this shows up today in an article by John Harris and Jim

It is perhaps inspirational, that as I sit down and gather my thoughts, my MP3 player, on it’s own, comes up with Pat Metheny doing “It’s Just Talk” off 1987’s “Still Life (Talking)“. (The 1990 version, not the