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althouse.blogspot.com » Althouse - May 14, 2008
... and has to cut a swath around menthol to show it cares about black people. Or... wait... is it supposed to show it cares about black people by helping them like smoking less? It's so hard to be a caring …
althouse.blogspot.com » Althouse - May 9, 2008
Peggy Noonan on Hillary. To play the race card as Mrs. Clinton has, to highlight and encourage a sense that we are crudely divided as a nation, to make your argument a brute and cynical "the black guy can't win but …
Also tagged: obama, hillary, peggy noonan
althouse.blogspot.com » Althouse - May 9, 2008
WaPo reports: A powerful federal arts commission is urging that the sculpture of Martin Luther King Jr. proposed for a memorial on the Tidal Basin be reworked because it is too "confrontational" and reminiscent of …
althouse.blogspot.com » Althouse - May 9, 2008
A memorable phrase, a classic encounter: Man, if my head looked like Paul Begala's, I would not use the term "eggheads." But anyway, isn't he right? Donna Brazile does an excellent job of getting mad on camera, but …
Also tagged: voting, eggs, donna brazile, paul begala
althouse.blogspot.com » Althouse - May 6, 2008
Mildred Loving has died at the age of 68. It seems odd that she was only 68. Loving v. Virginia — the case in which the Supreme Court struck down a law that banned interracial marriages — ought to have been decided a …
Also tagged: marriage, law, aclu, bobby kennedy
althouse.blogspot.com » Althouse - May 1, 2008
The whole story of the race for the Democratic nomination in 7 minutes of short sentences and sentence fragments. Funny! Spiffy graphics. Pretty fair and balanced too. [Bad code fixed.] BUT: The wrong code was for …
Also tagged: debate, 2008 campaign, edwards, obama, hillary, richardson, jeremiah wright, bitter americans
althouse.blogspot.com » Althouse - May 1, 2008
At the NYT, Michael Powell and Jodi Kantor have background on the Obama's decision to speak out more forcefully against Jeremiah Wright: Late Monday night, in the Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill, N.C., Barack Obama’s …
Also tagged: religion, obama, radical politics, jeremiah wright
althouse.blogspot.com » Althouse - May 1, 2008
Chris Rock at Madison Square Garden last night: Noting that “President Bush has f----- everything up so much, he’s even made it hard for a white man to become president!,” Rock became the voice of the electorate …
Also tagged: animals, comedy, menstruation, chris rock, bush, obama, hillary
althouse.blogspot.com » Althouse - May 1, 2008
Daniel Henniger notes the famous names: Jesse Jackson, Ted Kennedy, Oprah, John Kerry, Chris Dodd, Patrick Leahy, Tom Daschle, Amy Klobuchar, Claire McCaskill, Jay Rockefeller, John Lewis, Toni Morrison, Roger …
Also tagged: religion, oprah, jesse jackson, kerry, obama, ted kennedy, jeremiah wright
althouse.blogspot.com » Althouse - May 1, 2008
Let's read the transcript of Barack Obama's press conference about Jeremiah Wright. I'll make some excerpts and comments, concentrating on things other than the quotes I read yesterday (which I discussed here): The …
Also tagged: iraq, movies, religion, bush, nixon, obama, rhetoric, jeremiah wright