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Sun June 22, 2008
(Globe and Mail) News Only one number in Zimbabwe not subject to inflation; Number of elections next week: 0 (114)
(Washington Post) Obvious Obama targets "Enron Loophole" to curb speculation in energy markets. You know, the loophole created by former Sen. Phil Gramm, who serves as John McCain's economic adviser (64)
(What The ??) Weird Political artist Mark Bryan must take a cocktail of peyote, meth, alcohol, weed, Vicadin, Viagra, and Nyquil before he paints (77)
(Jed Report) Asinine Not only did John McCain violate McCain-Feingold by taking out a loan against his approved FEC financing and then renege on the financing, his spokesman lied about the loan's existence (77)
(Newsblaze) Strange Four mothers from the anti-war group CodePINK charged with "intimidation" of U.S. Marines at protest. Wait, what? (135)
(Chicago Tribune) Cool "Christianity - repressed, marginalized and, in many cases, illegal in China for more than half a century - is sweeping the country, overflowing churches and posing a sensitive challenge to the officially atheist Communist Party." (146)
(Bloomberg) Ironic Want Change? Obama's decision not to accept public funds for his presidential campaign puts the financing system at risk, said Sen Joe Biden, an Obama supporter (66)
(AP) Obvious The GOP Party is afraid of Bob Barr (110)
(Commentary) Cool Progress so pronounced in Iraq that even New York times forced to admit it. Next up: Blind deaf mutes, hermits in Tibet, Obama (158)
(Talking Points Memo) Obvious After John McCain led a crusade against an Air Force tanker contract with Boeing, it was rebid and awarded to EADS, a company that has five registered lobbyists working for McCain's campaign. Bonus: the second contract was illegal (162)
(Newsweek) Interesting Cindy McCain: "You can go after me, but stay away from my children." Percocet (107)
(STLToday) Obvious George Noory to run for President in 2012 to handle the impending Mayan end of the universe crisis (46)
(Washington Post) Obvious Three out of ten Americans admit to racial prejudice yet nine out of ten are at least open to the idea of a black President while only two third of Americans are entirely comfortable with the idea. Wait... huh? (121)
(Newsweek) Scary More and more US troops are "special forces" -- the kind of "special" that takes a short bus to school and gets lots of medals for "participation" (429)
(Reason Magazine) Interesting Bob Barr, who led the impeachment effort, says he'd take Bill Clinton over George W. Bush (82)

Sat June 21, 2008
(Daily Kos) Scary News: Resolution calls for a naval blockade of Iran, effectively an act of war. Not News: 92 House Republicans have cosponsored it. Facepalm: So have 77 House Democrats (467)
(Reuters) Interesting Tiny Shetland island declares independence. Tiny ponies gallop in celebration (47)
(Jed Report) Asinine Not News: In an interview with Sean Hannity, McCain said he "really didn't love America until he was deprived of her company." Orwell: It's nowhere to be found in the official FoxNews transcript. Fark: There's always video (210)
(Politico) Sad Iowa would like to officially thank John McCain for blocking "pork" levee funding programs that would have saved their homes (103)
(Think Progress) Dumbass Scalia's claims about released detainees killing Americans is an "urban legend." While a disgrace, at least it is in keeping with the factual basis of the rest of his other judicial opinions (80)
(Detroit News) Dumbass Atheist moves into Michigan town founded by Lutheran missionaries, sees crosses everywhere, and starts suing everybody. "He sometimes feels like he's the one hanging from the cross." (800)
(LA Times) Amusing Republicans throw hissy fit over new Obama campaign seal (430)
(AP) Amusing The Ron Paul Express continues to pick up steam... largely from rolling off the edge of the cliff (83)
(Wall Street Journal) Interesting Obama's telecom policies suggest open-internet push. Traditional phone and cable companies balk at ...+++CONNECTION ABORTED+++ (53)
(Wall Street Journal) Interesting Rescinding the Bush tax cuts would crash the world economy - says the sophisticated, nuanced, Nobel-Prize-winning father of the Euro (148)
(Some Guy) Cool "The hemp bill became law without the Governor's signature because the governor did not return it with objections ..." (52)
(Orlando Sentinel) Amusing Politics. Serious business (41)
(MSNBC) Unlikely McCain sneaks up on Obama in money race (117)
(ABC News) Obvious Al-Qaeda now training white Europeans to attack the US. EVERYBODY PANIC (and vote McCain) (171)
(USA Today) Dumbass Iowa governor requests that John McCain cancel campaign visit so as not to divert law enforcement resources from disaster recovery. McCain goes anyway. How can he resist a photo-op like the floods in Iowa? (176)
(Some Guy) Asinine Reasons to impeach Bush: Iraq? Check. Signing statements? Check. Illegal wiretapping? Check. Salmonella tomato outbreak? Check... wait, what? (47)

Fri June 20, 2008
(Crooks & Liars) Hero It's official: Obama will back a filibuster of any Senate FISA legislation containing telecom immunity (134)
(Eco Geek) Asinine Investment Tax Credits, which have been successful in spurring solar and wind power growth, face expiration because of President Bush's insistence that oil companies continue to receive subsidies (33)
(AP) Scary In the greatest news since Metallica toured with Guns N Roses, Hillary and Obama announce plans to campaign together (71)
(AP) Stupid Congress was all like "we need those documents" and Bush was like "no way" and the Reps were all like "yes way, dude, we're Congress" and then Bush just shut them down hard with "executive privilege" (63)
(YouTube) Amusing "How to speak Democrat": A lecture by Rep. Thad McCotter (R-ad) on the House floor (151)
(MSNBC) Cool Despite John McCain's insistence that such things are impossible for a presidential candidate to do, Barack Obama "plays referee" and gets MoveOn to shut down their 527 (158)
(Newsweek) Spiffy Obama opens up 15 point lead over McCain in Newsweek poll (192)
(Some Guy) Obvious "Astrological disaster" looms in McCain-Obama election. Here comes the pseudo-science (46)
(BBC) Interesting EU to lift sanctions against Cuba. Don't those people know about the imprisonment without trial and allegations of torture and abuse happening on that island? (190)
(LA Times) Interesting McCain raised a record $21 million dollars last month, which Obama thinks is cute since he averages twice that every month (77)
(Democratic Underground) Scary In case you're worried where we're getting the money for the $300 billion Countrywide Mortgage bailout, they were kind enough to include almost $10 billion in Internet taxes to help pay for the bill. Problem solved (76)
(Chicago Tribune) Obvious By rejecting public financing, Barack Obama will probaby raise $500 million, or enough to buy a couple gallons of gas and a bag of Cheetos for each person who votes for him (84)
(National Review) Interesting Atheism hates women, children, and families. Ghost of Maude Flanders nods approvingly (1082)
(ABC News) Amusing That is correct boys & girls. God is a republican (139)
(Reuters) Asinine House passes shameful Steny Hoyer/FISA act with ex post facto telecom immunity. Bow to your corporate masters, serfs (688)
(CBS Miami) Dumbass After the Democratic Congress turned Republican and gave Bush what he wanted, he praises them (90)
(Commentary) Ironic Liberals: We need a more progressive tax system. Conservative: But don't you favor regressive higher gas taxes, which hit the poor the hardest? Liberals: Screw 'em (166)
(Austin Bay) Obvious "The real rubes in this election won't be the rural Midwesterners Obama slandered, the ones who cling to their guns and religon. It will be the gray-haired profs with ponytails, clinging to their cannabis and liturgy of defeat." (124)
(The New York Times) Dumbass Brooks criticizes Obama's voting 'present' 130 times in the Illinois Senate. Fails to mention McCain's failure to vote 361 times during the current Congress (39)
(CNN) Obvious Barack Obama's position against NAFTA has, um, evolved, coincidently after the Ohio primary and now that he has secured the nomination. Who would have imagined that? (141)
(CNN) Ironic McCain said that Obama's move to drop out of the system "should be disturbing to all Americans" then promptly adds that he (McCain) may decide to opt out, too (92)
(Politico) Unlikely The right wing is no longer motivated or unified enough to organize "Swift Boat" attacks (101)
(Wonkette) Amusing Jesse Ventura, who has grown out his hair and now looks like a musclehead version of Cheech, is mumbling about a possible Senate run against Frankencoleman (48)
(CNN) Dumbass Hugo Chavez threatens EU with oil embargo over immigration policy. Difficulty- EU doesn't use any Venezuelan oil (164)
(Washington Post) Obvious Eggo demands Obama stop trying to corner the waffle market (135)
(International Herald Tribune) Interesting Not that anybody should worry or anything, but the Israeli Air Force just held a full blown dress rehearsal for bombing Iran (924)
(Miami Herald) Unlikely Obama's downfall may be Elian Gonzales' great uncle (93)
(CBC) Scary Hezbollah has activated suspected 'sleeper cells' in Canada and is poised to launch attacks against Jewish targets beyond the Middle East (125)
(Expat) News For some reason Thai protestors don't like the new PM either - seige at the Government House underway (34)
(CBS News) Dumbass After strolling down the streets of Baghdad safer than any person since Saddam Hussein, Mahmoud Ahmadinnerjacket complains that the "U.S. tried to kill him." Go cry, emo kid (55)
(USA Today) Followup U.S. to Iran: "You can't have nuclear weapons because you are irresponsible." U.S. Air Force to the world: "Has anyone seen several hundred nuclear missile components? We seem to have misplaced them." (52)
(Daily Mail) Dumbass Faced with complaints from his constituents that food prices are rising, energy prices soaring and foreclosures are an epidemic, the Member of Parliment responded: "stop being so bloody miserable" (19)

Thu June 19, 2008
(Election Geek) Interesting Rep Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick reveals Edwards & Nunn on VP list. Meanwhile an Obama admin probably won't trust "Cheeks" with confidential info in the future (251)
(The Raw Story) Interesting Dennis Kucinich (D-Lollipop Guild) threatens House Judiciary Committee, says he'll submit 60 more articles of impeachment for them to ignore once they're done with the first 35 (96)
(SMH) Dumbass If you book the National Press Club to announce your gay tryst with a presidential candidate, try not to have an outstanding warrant for your arrest. Also, maybe try a lawyer that is wearing pants (176)
(AP) Sad The VA has granted only 6 percent of health claims filed by veterans of secret Cold War chemical and germ warfare tests conducted by the Pentagon (25)
(MSNBC) Unlikely White House threatens to veto foreclosure bailout plan while two Republicans plan to stall the bill until a committee can investigate how much lenders stand to gain from it (71)
(The Atlantic) Interesting By drilling in ANWR gas prices should go down two cents. In 2025 (237)
(Reuters) Spiffy Hollywood's elite line up behind Obama as Jessica Alba, John Leguizamo and George Lopez form a fearsome foursome to court the Hispanic vote (70)
(Burlington Free Press) Amusing City-owned cable company offers Al-Jazerra English. "I've never seen it before," but heard that it's "really scary", explains one critic (65)
(CQ Politics) Dumbass McCain attacking Obama for backing Bush half the time. As opposed to McCain who backs Bush 90% of the time, of course (128)
(CNN) Ironic Cindy McCain says candidate's families should be left out of campaign. Which has nothing to do with her husband cheating on, then leaving his first wife to marry her, a mult-millionaire heiress; it's purely a matter of principle (118)
(Individual.Com) Obvious Donald Rumsfeld unsure if he'll back McCain for president. John McCain sends his thanks (26)
(ABC News) Obvious Cool video from 2006 where Obama says public financing of elections helps prevent government corruption. 2008? Not so much, apparently (185)
(The New York Times) Asinine John "Who cares about fiscal responsibility" McCain says he doesn't care about massive deficits (98)
(Detroit News) Interesting Woman charged with providing a sex act to the husband of a U.S. senator pleads guilty to lesser charge of trespassing, wait, what? (w/ she's so worth pic) (62)
(Hot Air) Obvious Obama was for public financing before he was against it (250)
(Talking Points Memo) Dumbass The "A-Team" causing problems for embattled AK congressman. I love it when a plan comes together (36)
(ABC News) Dumbass Obama on Osama: "The United States should bring him to justice but in a way that avoids turning the al Qaeda leader into a martyr." Okay, How? "I can't speculate" (618)
(Talking Points Memo) Sad Telecoms: "We want immunity to break the law" House Dems: "No problem" (171)
(Hot Air) Dumbass Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-Woodstock/Caracas) demands nationalization of the one part of the oil industry that isn't making any money. With video idiocy (112)
(AP) Followup Texas GOP bans racist button seller from conventions. GOP spokesman: "We will neither tolerate, nor profit from bigotry." GOP rank and file: "Really? Is that a new thing? Cause we didn't get a memo" (746)
(Google) Obvious Afghanistan overtaking Iraq as focus of war on terror, according to analysts. And it only took seven years and 4,000 U.S. combat deaths to figure that out (298)
(In These Times) Obvious John McCain is more Goose than Maverick (55)
(Sun Sentinel) Florida Let's make a deal: Oil drilling for national hurricane insurance (188)
(Politico) Interesting Barack Obama could massively win the popular vote but still lose the election as McCain narrowly takes the South plus Michigan and New Hampshire and wins the Electoral College. The Democratic head explosions would look like 4th of July fireworks (268)
(National Post) Unlikely Canadian government "busy" when John McCain visits Ottawa on Friday (60)
(Pharyngula) Obvious Ken Ham, founder of Answers in Genesis and the Creation Museum, invited to speak at the Pentagon. Asinine tag yields to Obvious, too busy commiserating with Dumbass over the massive FAIL (189)
(NW Florida Daily News) Obvious Local politicians wary of Vice President-elect Crist's sudden dramatic reversal on his long-standing opposition to off-shore drilling on Florida's coast (50)
(YouTube) Amusing Ever wonder why the media didn't cover McCain calling his wife a See You Next Tuesday trollup? (Not safe for work lang) (154)
(Daily Kos) Obvious In an interview with a foreign reporter, Bush gets defensive and blames American soldiers for their own incompetence (190)

Wed June 18, 2008
(The Local (Sweden)) Scary Swedish lawmakers approve controversial wiretapping bill. So much for the the wonderful telephøne system (28)
(Politico) Dumbass "If we see Obama there's a shoot-on-sight order." Stay classy, GOP (92)
(Talking Points Memo) Misc Poll shows Michelle Obama viewed more favorably than Cindy McCain, considered to have better cookie recipes (61)
(NoodleFood) Ironic If the US had the socialized medicine that Ted Kennedy has tried to impose for decades, he wouldn't enjoy the quality of care he's getting -- except by pulling major strings (177)
(Fox News) Asinine U.S. House Democrats, taking a cue from the massive successes of Cuba, China and the Soviet Union, call for the nationalization of oil refineries (154)
(The News & Observer (NC)) Obvious Sister company to Blackwater Security wants lawsuit against them decided under Islamic law instead of an American courtroom because three pregnant goats, two chickens and a rooster are cheaper than a half a billion dollars (40)
(Gallup) Interesting Forty-somethings could hold key to the election (61)
(Wall Street Journal) Obvious Obama meets with Iraqi foreign minister, assures him he won't pull out troops any time soon. In related news, Cindy Sheehan spotted pounding her head on a sidewalk (77)
(The Raw Story) Interesting "I was working for the Sith Lords." (76)
(Yahoo) Obvious Nearly three-quarters of all Americans agree that politicians are the ones not supporting the troops. Captain Obvious still waiting to get an appointment at the nearest VA clinic 200 miles from his home (42)
(BBC) Scary Britain's socialized medical system is about to go belly-up because all the old folks there are going insane. No word on a solution, although doctors seem to be renting "Soylent Green" a lot for some reason (38)
(The New Editor) Obvious Exclusive: Obama campaign's secret internal memo on candidate image (221)
(MSNBC) Cool Barack Obama waits for Rudy Guiliani to criticize him for comments about prosecuting terrorists. Guiliani does so. Obama then sets Guiliani on fire by immediately releasing quotes from Guiliani about how great prosecuting 1993 WTC terrorists was (160)
(Boston Globe) Stupid Doesn't Barack Obama's staff know that he's a Muslim? (174)
(National Review) Obvious Obama's America is a September 10th America (232)
(Huffington Post) Stupid David Weiner from Huffington Post does some hard-hitting investigative journalism and discovers Cindy McCain's cookie recipe is suspiciously similar to someone else's. Weiner (146)
(Fox News) Asinine Nebraska to stop funding erectile dysfunction treatment because "sex is not medically necessary." (110)
(CNSNews) Followup The "400 billion barrels of oil under Montana" story is a myth. The oil field exists, but it's about 1/100th as large. In related news, CNSnews.com sometimes contains actual facts (328)
(Newsweek) Obvious GObama may turn into D'OHbama if he gets elected and finds out how big a gap there is between his promises and the way Washington really works (291)
(National Post) Interesting Obama's Father's Day speech finally makes him as conservative as Robert Kennedy (70)
(Washington Post) Obvious Whenever there's a problem, Americans scream for government help. But government invariably doesn't fix it and in fact makes it worse. Why? Because we're humans, not robots (except for Al Gore) (98)
(Guardian.com) Amusing Barack Obama hasn't settled on a vice president yet, but he has chosen the vice-president's chief of staff. Naturally, someone has a problem with this (87)
(ProPublica) Dumbass Democratic Senator on Finance Committee: "Wait, you mean not everyone calls the mortgage company CEO directly to secure a loan? Well, I certainly wasn't trying to get any special treatment..." (251)
(Some BSG nerd) Amusing John McCain is a cylon (83)
(Palm Beach Post) Florida Ladies and gentlemen, we may have our failed VP candidate (213)
(AFP) Amusing Huckabee to GOP: Don't demonize Obama, it only makes him stronger (108)
(CNN) Interesting Zombie Castro appears on TV in Cuba, with Hugo Chavez. Mentions about the US, `Sorry about all those crop-killin' midwest RAIIIIIIIIIIINS' (17)
(The Nation) Cool Jon Stewart examines Baracknophobia, the fear of hope (393)
(YouTube) Video For those of you that missed it, here's Kimmel interviewing Obama, who is obviously comfortable enough with his campain to just talk baseball. Bonus: terrorist fist jab (61)
(Slate) Amusing Known Facts™ about Barack Obama (91)
(Houston Chronicle) Obvious McCain's energy plan is getting rave reviews ... from Big Oil (70)
(Some Old Guy) Obvious Ohio can predict the future. From February 2007: "Ohio GOP Straw Poll: Rudy Wins, McCain Pancakes" (31)
(Telegraph) Obvious Why Barack Obama will be the worst American president Europe ever had (252)

Tue June 17, 2008
(CBS News) Obvious Lobbying is as American as apple pie with cheese on top (89)
(St. Petersburg Times) Florida Town spends over $6000 apiece shipping palm trees from Arizona to plant in highway medians. Because it's nearly impossible to find a palm tree in Florida (28)
(CBS News) Obvious Q: Are Democrats alluding to McCain's age in code? A: PANCAKES (160)
(Huffington Post) Obvious Obama: Bin Laden is still on the loose thanks to the GOP. Oh snap (217)
(Some Guy) Dumbass Gore's electric consumption would power over 200 average homes. Global warming: Do as I say, not as I do (213)
(Some Damn Blog) Dumbass The Family Research Council says something will trigger "social chaos that could wreak havoc on every state in America." If you said two chicks getting married, you win (134)
(Yahoo) Obvious Latest poll on how satisfied Americans are with the way things are going falls to a 20-year low of just 18 percent. Captain Obvious too busy drinking vodak straight from bottle while reading the business page to comment (51)
(MSNBC) Dumbass John McCain says he's against a windfall profits tax on Big Oil. Guess what his position was last month. Pancakes (68)
(Pajamas Media) Dumbass Remember those Iraqi benchmarks? Guess what? Democrats no longer talk of the 18 benchmarks for measuring progress in Iraq because so much progress has now taken place (142)
(Media Matters) Obvious Roll Call points out absence of flag lapel pins in Obama's online store, fails to point out lack of flag lapel pins in McCain's online store (52)
(Some Guy) Unlikely The State of Oklahoma tells the federal government to STFU and GBTW (100)
(TwinCities.com) Dumbass Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-apture) says Congress can bring back $2/gallon gas by allowing oil companies to tap new reserves like western oil-shale fields and unicorn farts (253)
(AmericaBlog) Asinine Texas GOP asks, "If Obama is President, will we still call it the White House?" Stay classy, Texas (295)
(Yahoo) Interesting New Pew survey claims that everyone likes the U.S. more today than yesterday. Except for Turkey. They still hate us (45)
(Some Guy) Dumbass Arlen Spector gracefully admits he blew Spygate way out of proportion and apologizes for attention whoring. Just kidding... he's dropping the case now because, all of a sudden, he has "too much to do" (55)
(Time) Amusing "Israeli TV announcers coined [Condoleezza Rice's] name as a verb, meaning to go endlessly around in circles, accomplishing nothing" (139)
(Newsweek) Sad The only good thing about Bush having low approval ratings is that just about every other world leader does too, proving the maxim that each generation gets the leadership it deserves (212)
(The Nation) Unlikely Obama: "Look. I am a pro-growth, free-market guy. I love the market" (209)
(Talking Points Memo) Unlikely New McCain ad claims he has stood up to the president. In all fairness, he probably did stand up -- after he was finished (114)
(Wonkette) Amusing Ex-Hillary supporters for John McCain about to go "nuclear" on Obama by hitting him hard and fast with a major -- and I mean major -- Thrifty Nickel advertising campaign (168)
(Rasmussen Reports) Obvious Sixty-seven percent of Americans support increased oil drilling, 64 percent expect it will lead to lower gas prices. Remaining 36 percent still ask daddy to check under the bed for monsters and oil company executives before bedtime (138)
(Think Progress) Obvious Nothing, not a correction from the guy who made it up, or a retraction from Dick Cheney, will stop Republicans from claiming that China is drilling for oil on Florida's coast (238)
(Free Press) Unlikely Gore adds excitement to Obama's speech in Detroit. Green Gore, not the red variety more prevalent in D-town (29)
(The New York Times) Interesting Experts say that food, energy and environmental disasters are just around the corner. Just like they did in 1970. And 1940 (100)
(Hot Air) Obvious Don't kill my precious baby, John McCain, says cute blonde mom: Latest ad by the always subtle and reasonable MoveOn.org, which never did (video) (587)
(Daily Kos) Interesting Mass. School of Law plans fictitious trial for fictitious president who took us to a fictitious war with fictitious intelligence (127)
(Gainesville Sun) Interesting Senator Barack Obama's candidacy, especially if successful, could unwittingly prove to be the proverbial nail in the coffin for affirmative action (248)
(Bitten and Bound) Cool Entrepeneurs have created a collection of funky Barack Obama wristwatches around the theme "time for a change." One "must have" time piece says "Love your mama, vote Obama." Memorabilia collectors swarming (48)
(Wonkette) Obvious President Obama will not roll on Shabbos -- because he plans on yanking the White House bowling alley and replacing it with a basketball court (104)
(Some Guy) Video Bush launches preemptive war on basketball rim. Rajon Rondo unimpressed (41)
(Telegraph) Strange If Barack Obama is elected president, he will be influenced by Winnie the Pooh, Luke Skywalker and British football hooligans (39)
(Daily Kos) Unlikely Did the Democrats finally grow a spine? Congresswoman Schultz says they may arrest Rove if he doesn't testify (186)
(USA Today) Amusing McCain calls to lift U.S. oil drilling ban, notes he hasn't drilled anything in a long, long time (121)
(AP) Ironic Candidate of Change (TM) hires staff from the Edwards campaign, Clinton campaign, Kerry campaign, Gore campaign and Carter campaign (106)
(SFGate) Sad Tony Schwartz, creator of LBJ's "Daisy" ad, has died. Condolences in five... four... three... two... one... (54)
(CNN) Cool Yes we can... win an Emmy (112)

Mon June 16, 2008
(The Raw Story) Obvious Waxman files more subpoenas the DoJ will ignore (46)
(Reuters) Obvious Democrats plan to get tough, put Bush's feet to the fire on the next Iraq war funding bill. Just kidding--they're going to approve it without conditions (301)
(Baltimore Sun) Interesting When Republican and independent women are reminded that John McCain is anti-choice, they abandon him in droves for Obama (231)
(Yahoo) Interesting Before his Pastor, there were other friends Obama threw under the bus (81)
(WSRZ) Obvious Bush ranked only slightly above rulers of Pakistan and Iran as one of the least-trusted leaders in the world (41)
(AP) Interesting Al Gore stops looking for ManBearPig just long enough to endorse Obama, flies away (66)
(AP) Interesting Obama's camp figures they can win even without Ohio and Florida; also say not to worry about losing the Boston gig since it's not a big college town (105)
(Fox News) Obvious Bush is trying to be all coy with Europe, not realizing that he's like the drama geek that people don't actually want at their parties but whose self-delusion is impossible to penetrate (34)
(Statesman Journal) Followup Judge rules your emails are protected private communications (As long as you work for the Bush administration) (147)
(Daily Kos) Interesting If you're in the business of ignoring conservative evangelical slobberfest biographies of Christian politicians, you'll miss the biggest book about Barack Obama this year (74)
(Orlando Sentinel) Obvious "The best we're going to get out of this election cycle is an evangelical Christian running for vice president" (180)
(Newsweek) Interesting How Obama can woo the white wimmen (184)
(Vanity Fair) Obvious The media has a mancrush on John McCain (283)
(Cincinnati Enquirer) Interesting Steve Chabot (D-Comb Over) attends a Planned Parenthood clinic protest because it wants to move closer to a high school and goes against community values (65)
(Patterico) Followup Wife of Ninth Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski speaks out about the "porn" found on his "website." Turns out the LA Times is full of "crap" (224)
(NYPost) Asinine What do Chris Dodd, Kent Conrad, Alphonso Jackson, Donna Shalala and Richard Holbrooke all have in common? Below market loans from Countrywide Financial. Some pigs are more equal than others (85)
(Maine Today) Interesting Depending on how close the 2008 presidential election is, Maine's splitting of their four electoral votes might make it the most important state this time around (74)
(Some Guy) Interesting John McCain admits that Obama has a strong chance to pick up Arizona, McCain's home state that Bush carried twice (181)
(AP) Amusing What would happen if you held an election and nobody showed up? (56)
(Baltimore Sun) Obvious John McCain suddenly learning that when you vote alongside Bush 100 percent of the time, voters stop feeling you are a "maverick" (291)
(Some Guy) Interesting George Bush accused of "leaving carbon footprint as big as Wales" during his trip to Britain. For you Yanks, Wales is sorta like a country, except it's smaller than Delaware, which is America's smallest state (162)
(Yahoo) Obvious Iraqi prime minister plans to ask the U.S. to leave by the end of 2009 (103)

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