"New Obama slogan has long ties to Marxism, socialism"... and Wisconsin.

Drudge pushed me over to the Washington Times , where I was surprised to read: The Obama campaign apparently didn't look backwards into ...

Arianna Huffington calls Obama's bin Laden ad "despicable."

She said: "I don't think there should be an ad about that... It's the same thing Hillary Clinton did with the 3 a.m. call. ...

James Taranto theorizes that Elizabeth Warren "downplayed her alleged Indian roots after coming to Harvard to avoid the stigma of 'affirmative action.'"

Now, he's bouncing off something I said: As Althouse points out, early in her career, "minority status" would have been useful...

Was the "Protest Whisperer" — Capitol Police Chief Charles Tubbs — forced out...

... by mean old Republicans who are saying he "coddled" protesters? For days in February 2011, protesters slept in the Capitol and...

"Is Twitter working on a solution to keep liberals from abusing the spam submission system in the future?"

"Dana Loesch and many others want answers from Twitter. Why did they suspend Chris Loesch’s account? Was the suspension due to liberals...

"Bus, under."

"Top EPA Official Resigns Over 'Crucify' Comment." Imagine your career wrecked over a slightly edgy analogy . Meanwhile, H...

Obama announces his retirement from politics.

I received email from the President just now. The subject line: My last campaign. Ann -- In a few days, I'll be hitting the trail for my...

A scientific calculation of the advantages and disadvantages of the 2 leading candidates in the Wisconsin recall primary...

" Final score: +1 for The Kathleen. (Toasting Mary Bell of WEAC and Marty Beil of AFSCME.)"

"But don’t worry, Harvard Law School racked up their identity-group bonus points on the basis of the authoritative evidence of Ms Warren’s family 'lore'..."

"... which surely ought to be good enough for faculty-lounge affirmative-action credits." Mark Steyn aptly notes. We were talking ...

"The Five Stages Of GOP Reaction To Osama Bin Laden’s Death — And What’s Next."

The top post at Talking Points Memo, which I visited after I noticed it on my Blogroll and thought hey, I haven't gone there in a long ...

"Because I criticized the President, it’s news?"

"Last I checked, he’s President, not King! This is America! Freedom of Speech. what’s the bfd?" *** I know I've made a lot of ...

"Other cities do have working tent cities. And I think this shows that a tent city can work..."

"... as imperfect as it is, for various reasons... and it's really sad that the city is dismissing it altogether, and it's goin...

"It's almost an art to be so obnoxious, really."

"You will find nothing in her blog that would get her in trouble with state government or the University of Wisconsin, and yet she is t...

"No one who writes for a living wouldn't want to be the person behind Jonah Goldberg's 'Liberal Fascism..."

"... which was not only a number-one New York Times' bestseller, but also a seminal publication in the growing canon of conservativ...

"Yet the walls still have to be guarded by independent bloggers who bear a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom..."

"... and while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, you want us on that wall, you need us on that wall," blogs Professor Jacobso...

"That's Why God Made The Radio."

A beautiful new song by the (surviving) Beach Boys — Brian Wilson, Mike Love and Al Jardine (with Bruce Johnston and David Marks). You can ...

Tomorrow, 1 World Trade Center will become the tallest building in NYC.

The addition of a steel column will put it 21 feet taller than the Empire State Building. This is the second time a skyscraper called 1 Worl...

"So, we know one thing with almost 100% certainty: Elizabeth Warren identified herself as a minority law professor."

David Bernstein affirms: We know something else with 90%+ certainty: (at least some) folks at Harvard were almost certainly aware that she i...

Salon analyzes "Who’s better to beat Scott Walker?"

Lots of background on Kathleen Falk , including the story of how she challenged the incumbent Democratic attorney general, Peg Lautenschlage...

"Illinois is a lesson in why companies are starting to pay more attention to the long-term fiscal prospects of governments."

"Indiana's debt for unfunded retiree health-care benefits, for example, amounts to just $81 per person. Neighboring Illinois's ...

"Apple was a pioneer of an accounting technique known as the 'Double Irish With a Dutch Sandwich'..."

"... which reduces taxes by routing profits through Irish subsidiaries and the Netherlands and then to the Caribbean. Today, that tacti...

Obama does dog-eating jokes at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner.

At 1:30, "What's the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull?... A pit bull is delicious." More here .

"President Obama is increasingly taking the unusual route of bragging about how he killed a man."

"That's how I might expect a very far-left fringe candidate to describe our successful mission to kill the head of al Qaeda."

"Nothing bores me more than to be in New York and have a dinner in a big fancy restaurant, where you have to sit for three fucking hours."

"You know and people will have drinks before, wine after, then three courses, then they want coffee and someone is going to ask for a f...

"But, has anyone else been as creeped-out on this blog, as I've been lately?"

Says Jay Vogt , off topic, in the "Science of sitting" post. He continues: Over the past two days, we been presented with posts on...

The "inescapable shame of being a storyteller."

An enactment of shame, by Jonathan Franzen: Via David Haglund , who proceeds to further shame Franzen.

The science of sitting.

We all know — don't we? — that sitting too much isn't healthy. (I love my motorized sit-stand desk , which I demonstrate here .) I...

"Occupy Student Debt."

Nice poster... but what's going on ? There's this : The Occupy Student Debt Campaign, organised by members of Occupy Wall Street, pl...

Finally! "The Greening of America" is out on Kindle.

Got it! [CAVEAT: The Kindle version is newly abridged, "compressing the original 125,000 words to an Internet-friendly 24,000 words and...

"Nearly a dozen of high school journalists walked out of a lecture by Dan Savage, the prominent ant-bullying advocate..."

Sorry... I just love the typo: ant-bullying. Is that something done with a magnifying glass? But... okay... let's talk about the underly...

Why are we so hostile to non-natives?

"Giant cannibal shrimp more than a FOOT long invade waters off Gulf Coast." The black-and-white-striped shrimp can grow 13 inches ...

"I tried to be professional and detach myself from my emotions."

"But when I saw him lying there I just thought, 'What a b******.'" Warning: Horrifying story at the link. The story comes ...

Is this the right way to exploit "17-year old blogging prodigy Bebe Zeva"?

I stumbled across this article in the Washington Square News, which is the NYU student newspaper, because my Google alert on NYU School of ...

PJ Media's stupid effort to attack Obama through Derrick Bell's book "Afrolantica Legacies."

Did anyone over there realize how dumb this is? As a 28-year-old student at Harvard Law Barack Obama supported the activism of Professor De...

Why aren't we all talking about the "secret plan to evacuate some residents of Chicago in the event of major trouble during the NATO summit next month"?

3 days ago CBS 2 reported on an e-mail that the Red Cross sent out to volunteers in the Milwaukee area: It said the NATO summit “may create ...

What do Bob Dylan, Toni Morrison, John Glenn, and Madeleine Albright have in common?

Obama is giving them all a medal — the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Speaking for freedom, Bob's got an old song called "I Shall B...

"It can get a little gory, watching the parents tear up rabbits and squirrels, but that's nature."

"I just think it's been nice for us to be able to put it out there so a worldwide audience can watch these hawks."

"Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?"

That's the fifth most "liked" quote on the topic of "sin" at goodreads . It's from Chuck Palahniuk, Diary (whic...

Dalai Lama: "I love George Bush... the younger one... as a human being."

"As a person: very nice person. I love him."

"Alleged proposals to allow Egyptian husbands to legally have sex with their dead wives for up to 6 hours after their death have been branded a 'complete nonsense.'"

"The controversial new 'farewell intercourse' law was claimed, in Arab media, to be part of a raft of measures being introduced...

Tages-Anzeiger "starved to death after embarking on a spiritual diet that required her to stop eating or drinking and live off sunlight alone."

Another saint, gone. Having gotten that far drafting this post, I went looking for saints who have starved to death. I found the story of Ma...

Is Eric Hovde the new Ron Johnson?

Larry Kaufman on the GOP Senate primary in Wisconsin. But Ron Johnson did not have to fight off Tommy Thompson, the former governor who chos...

"Predictable Althouse is predictable."

Says a familiar lefty commenter , provoking me to say: Does that include the idea — see Ipso Fatso, supra — that I'm surely going to vo...

Pete Fornatale "was at the forefront of the FM revolution, along with WNEW-FM colleagues..."

"... like Scott Muni, Rosko, Vin Scelsa, Dennis Elsas, Jonathan Schwartz and Alison Steele (who called herself “the Nightbird”). They p...

What's the best position for a 2012 candidate to take on the Arizona approach to immigration enforcement?

The Obama administration fought this law, in what culminated in an embarrassing performance at the Supreme Court this week. And Chuck Schum...

Could you give me the street address so I can Google map the directions?

That's my response to this really cool invitation I just got in the email — I am so psyched! — from Michelle Obama: Ann -- Barack and I ...

Dog dinners.

For the first time, a Supreme Court opinion uses the word "feminist."

The case is Coleman v. Court of Appeals of Maryland , which came out this year on March 20th. There are 19 other Supreme Court opinions wher...