My apologies to Elvis for that blog post headline, but I couldn’t help it in light of a post today at No Sheeples Here: Obama is Trying to Sell Us a Hunk of Junk. She tackles Obama’s whopper about the $50,000 diabetes-related foot amputation from her perspective as a diabetic.
As a person who has diabetes, [...]

Stacy McCain at The Green Room:
By making “conservative” arguments for liberal policies, these treacherous elitists [Conor Friedersdorf, et al. ] convey the message that conservatives are not really committed to opposing liberalism. So Democrats can ram through their agenda, and then the “conservative” intellectuals will join the Consensus Chorus telling us that this is a [...]

The rapprochement between Ed Whelan and Publius seems to have sparked even more commentary than the rift, so I couldn’t miss out on a chance to get in on the Memeorandum linkfest. There’s a decent round-up of reaction at The Moderate Voice, including some people who think Whelan should not have apologized. Professor Jacobsen feels [...]

From ignorant slut to magnificent bastard in less than three days! The promotion comes entirely by accident.
Oddly, it seems that Arlen Specter’s party switch may actually make it easier for Republicans to block any radical that President Obama nominates to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter. By a quirk of senate procedure, as Professor [...]

Disgusting.  Every time I see Frank’s fat face on TV, I want to punch it in.

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I haven’t been this alarmed by election results since the latest Coleman-Franken recount update:

I remember when I first started reading blogs back in 2003 or so, I checked in at Sullivan’s “The Daily Dish” every once in a while and had to ask myself every time, “Why the hell is everyone talking about this guy?”  [...]

Tom Gross at NRO’s Media Blog has a round-up of a specific sort of Arab reaction to Israel’s recent Gaza attacks.  That specific sort f reaction: putting the blame on . . . Hamas!

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According to this Kansas City Star story, the Kansas Supreme Court has struck down the ban on funeral picketing (enacted to stop Fred Phelps and his disgusting followers from disrupting the funerals of American servicemen).
Interestingly, though, the law is not invalidated on free speech grounds but for technical separation of powers reasons [...]