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For those who haven't seen this, check it out: htKGhe_BGV4.tube Anytime someone can integrate beating up on Romney's dodgy dealings with Pink Floyd, it's a winner for me.

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Just a heads up that for the next week, I'll be standing in for Andrew Sullivan at his blog, while he enjoys some time off.

I'll still be blogging here, too, but please do help me keep Andrew's traffic sky-high, even as he remains offline...

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Today, I got a tip from my online buddy Nate Nelson that a fellow named Matt Sanchez apparently thinks that certain gay rights activists qualify as-- get this-- "gay jihadists".

Yes, you read that right. Gay activists (or at least some of them) are "jihadists." Wow.

The post whose comment thread played host to this extraordinary comment features here. Apparently, Mr. Sanchez has had the good sense to remove the "jihadist" comment-- but that still doesn't change the fact that he...

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KLo at The Corner has up a press release covering the new immigration bill that John McCain is pushing. The basic point? This bill pursues the enforcement-first strategy. In fact, unless I'm missing something, this is a bill that purely deals with enforcement.

While I am a supporter of comprehensive immigration reform, as a general strategy (if not quite in the form that the Senate came up with after tons and tons of amendments to the recent bill), I'm glad to see McCain (and Kyl, and...

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According to the WaPo, Democrats have come up with a compromise, aimed at allowing the administration to continue its supposedly high value eavesdropping-- crap, did it again, I mean surveillance-- program.

The proposal, according to House and Senate Democrats, would permit a secret court to issue broad orders approving eavesdropping of communications involving suspects overseas and other people, who may be in the United States. That order would not be linked to an individual target but,...

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How fricking stupid is this?

The new rules, which were proposed by the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting, would require any group of two or more people who want to use a camera in a public place for more than 30 minutes to get a city permit and $1 million in liability insurance. The same requirements would apply to any group of five or more people who plan to use a tripod in a public location for more than 10 minutes, including the time it takes to set up the equipment....

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It may well be that this is corrected within five minutes of me posting, but I just want to know, why is Matt Drudge running this:



with this:

"Having failed to thwart Murdoch purchase of WALL STREET JOURNAL, the NEW YORK TIMES intensifies battle.."

written underneath it?

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... rather than getting the people organizing the YRNC Straw Poll in Miami back about a month ago to change rules to allow 85 year-olds to vote, because that was the only way he could win it, Mitt Romney perhaps should have just talked to the people mentioned in this lovely story, which proves that no matter how great Charlie Crist is (and he really is great), and no matter how hard he's trying to make elections in Florida fairer and cleaner (and he really is, and deserves huge credit for doing...

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Rick Renzi obviously seems to be in a world of trouble, and getting himself into a situation where he's going to get his butt kicked by a Democrat, and move Arizona into the blue state category by at least one measure, as it stands today. Yet, he's not saying he won't run for re-election-- something that might, just might, give Republicans a clean shot at holding his seat (which I seriously doubt will happen if he's on the ballot).

AZ Central is reporting that there are two Republicans...

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... so, here's what's been going on in the world, and what I make of it:

- Tom Tancredo is yet again proving that he's an ass, not fit for public consumption, and definitely not ready for prime time. Today, Rep. Tancredo said "If it is up to me, we are going to explain that an attack on this homeland of that nature would be followed by an attack on the holy sites in Mecca and Medina." He seems to think he can't think of anything better to deter terrorism. My question is, if he's going...

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