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Posted at 5:41pm on May 15, 2008 I'd Like To Make A Request

By Dan McLaughlin

Let's lock this guy and this guy in a room together somewhere and tell them not to come out until they know what "perspective" means.

Posted at 1:18pm on May 15, 2008 California Supreme Court Legalizes Gay Marriage

By Robert A. Hahn

The California Supreme Court overturned a ban on gay marriage Thursday, paving the way for California to become the second state where gay and lesbian residents can marry.

CBS 5

UPDATE (Dan McLaughlin): Howard Bashman has the breakdown of the 4-3 decision, which apparently rests on state constitutional grounds and thus can't be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, here along with links to the 172-page opinion.

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Posted at 1:11am on May 15, 2008 All Hail Johan Norberg!

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

He reads Naomi Klein so that the rest of us don't have to. Between Norberg and Griswold, I might actually get to spend more of my time reading intelligent fare. And wouldn't that be a lovely development? (Link via Mike Moynihan, who has more links you should check out as well.)

Posted at 1:09am on May 15, 2008 A Presidential Veto Is A Many Splendored Thing

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

To wit.

Posted at 1:08am on May 15, 2008 All Hail Dan Griswold

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

He reads Thomas Frank so that the rest of us don't have to.

Posted at 3:53pm on May 14, 2008 More *Excellent* Polling on the Spring/Summer of Pain

By Jeff Emanuel

Building on the USAToday/Gallup poll which revealed that "55 percent of likely Democratic voters say both Sens. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and Barack Obama, D-Ill., should stay in the race" for the Democratic presidential nomination, we now have a Rasmussen poll which says the following:

[I]f Clinton does not win the Democratic Party nomination, 29% of Democrats say she should run an Independent campaign for the White House.

Further, according to Rasmussen, "6% [of Democrat respondents] want both candidates to drop out."

The excellence continues.

Posted at 3:17pm on May 14, 2008 When in doubt, soak the middle class. Worked for Carter, didn't it?

By Moe Lane

I was always under the impression that the point of remembering one's mistakes was that if you did, you might making 'em again:

Goofy me.

Posted at 10:32am on May 14, 2008 Karl Rove can't decide whether Obama's a sore winner or loser...

By Moe Lane

...but then, there's no reason for him to have to choose.

Via Hot Air. Rove notes that not actually making a live speech in response to being slapped around in West Virginia was both not smart and not usual for him, which sounds about right.

Listen to the whole thing: lots of fun, and there are probably several thousand netrooters still ticked off at it. Good times, good times.

Posted at 10:19am on May 14, 2008 Matthews: Clinton the Al Sharpton of white people

By Robert A. Hahn

Posted at 5:44pm on May 13, 2008 I can has... hamburger? (MS-01)

By Moe Lane

Sheesh, Travis, can't your people even manage cheese?

I mean, I understand why you'd be avoiding the Cheese Master himself, but really.

Posted at 3:17pm on May 13, 2008 Plain Dealer: OH AG Marc Dann to resign

By Kevin Holtsberry

UPDATE: Columbus Dispatch says he is trying to negotiate a deal:

Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann apparently is trying to negotiate the terms of his resignation, adamant that a bill be killed authorizing Inspector General Thomas P. Charles to investigate the scandal in Dann's office.

Sources said Dann told a number of legislators that an investigation by Charles "would cause all sorts of problems for him and he offered to leave office if the bill is scotched.

All sorts of problems is right! Sounds like he would like to avoid any more investigation and legal repercussions.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer:

Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann is expected to announce his resignation later today, The Plain Dealer has learned. He planned to break the news to his senior staff this afternoon.

The decision came as Dann faced intense pressure both from fellow Democrats and Republican critics who said he was not fit to continue as the state's top lawyer.

If Dann resigns Gov. Strickland would name a replacement to serve until a successor is elected this November.

Posted at 8:24am on May 13, 2008 55% of Democrats want the Spring/Summer of Pain to Continue

By Jeff Emanuel

According to UPI:

A USA Today/Gallup poll released before Tuesday's West Virginia primary indicates a majority of Democratic voters say they want the nomination race to continue.


The poll of 1,017 national adults conducted May 8-11 indicates 55 percent of likely Democratic voters say both Sens. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and Barack Obama, D-Ill., should stay in the race.

How nice that a majority of Democrat voters would like the nomination fight that is tearing their party asunder on racial lines to continue into the summer, giving Republican nominee John McCain more time to define himself and hone his message while his general election opponent is still distracted by intraparty political warfare.

As Mr. Burns would say: "Excellent."

Posted at 1:18am on May 13, 2008 Better No Deal At All Than A Bad Deal

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

To wit. I hate to interject an "I told you so" message, but I'm afraid I am compelled to.

Posted at 2:45pm on May 12, 2008 Here they come...

By Neil Stevens

The Sacramento Bee is coming after State Sen. Tom McClintock, California's best known conservative and candidate to Rep. Doolittle's seat in district 4.

Oh yes, he's "intolerant," an "ideologue," and worst of all, he's anti-earmarks. The Bee quotes approvingly of an attack by a supporter of former Rep. Doug Ose's, who is running against McClintock to return to the Congress, who says in horror "Tom will publicly refuse the tools available to all 435 members of Congress."

As for me, I'm with the Republican quoted at the end of the article:

"I think Tom is probably the most active voice in restraining state spending," said state Sen. Sam Aanestad, R-Penn Valley, a campaign supporter. "He just tells it like it is. He's upfront and he doesn't play political games.

"If that's a weakness, it's one I'd like to have."

For what it's worth, I'm with McClintock for Congress, and against Ose. This is a district we can have our pick of Republicans. This is no time and no place to go with a pro-spending Republican.

Posted at 11:19pm on May 11, 2008 McCain strategy on Obama

By Adam C

According to this article, McCain has been portraying Obama as inexperienced, self-entitled and effete, a candidate coddled by a loving press corps and lacking the judgment necessary for the highest office in the land. We'll see if it works, but if that was the strategy it was certainly a successful three months in "defining your opponent."

Posted at 11:02pm on May 11, 2008 Embedded War Documentarian, (and former Marine & Brownback staffer) on Dennis Miller show Monday morning

By Jeff Emanuel

More information here. J.D. Johannes is a guy who is definitely worth listening to, as he has a wealth of knowledge and experience on counterinsurgency in general and Iraq in particular. Tune in and check it out.

And swing over to his place and buy a DVD while you're at it. It doesn't get any more real than his inside-the-surge, inside-the-Anbar-Awakening, on-scene-for-combat documentaries.

Trust me -- it's worth the $20 price tag.

Posted at 10:31pm on May 11, 2008 Sam Donaldson demonstrates that he's still capable of getting off a good one.

By Moe Lane

Of course, when you have somebody like Cokie Roberts handing you softballs like this, you almost gotta swing at 'em:

COKIE ROBERTS: I don't think that it's good for the Democratic Party to have two liberal Senators from states that are going to go Democratic anyway. I mean, he needs a Bible-thumping, gun-owning, white guy from a swing state. I mean, maybe that's who the party should have nominated.

SAM DONALDSON: You mean, in other words, somebody who disagrees with him on all the issues.

Thanks to Constant Reader Jaded.

You said it, Sam. For that matter, and oddly enough: you too, Cokie.

Posted at 10:19pm on May 11, 2008 So that "Real War on Terror" is in one country, and crosses no borders, right?

By Jeff Emanuel

From the Long War Journal comes this report that Abu Suleiman al Otaibi, the "former leader of the legal system of al Qaeda in Iraq's political front, the Islamic State of Iraq," has been killed in Afghanistan.

That's right -- the al Qaeda leader who used to the supreme authority in Iraq on that Shari'a law that all AQ live by so devoutly was killed in Afghanistan.

But, you know, the War on Terror is only in one place, and doesn't cross those pesky national borders.

Posted at 5:08pm on May 10, 2008 Obama overtakes Clinton in Democratic superdelegates

By Robert A. Hahn

Obama added superdelegates from Utah and Ohio, as well as two from the Virgin Islands who had previously backed Clinton. The additions enabled Obama to surpass Clinton's total for the first time in the campaign.