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Andrew Sullivan points to this Op-Ed by Thomas Chatterton Williams, another burgeoning intellectual who has figured out the considerable market value of offering Cosby-like pop-psych diagnoses that explain all that ails the hood. Williams thesis–fundamentally unchanged from his Op-Ed in the Washington Post last year–is that the black middle class “cleaves to ghetto culture”. He […]

The Wall Street Journal has a fascinating story about “the black McCains,” namely the descendants of slaves owned by the McCain family, which has apparently been quite wealthy for a very long time. It’s interesting to look at the vastly different trajectories of the two branches of the McCain family. While the white side stayed […]

Andrew Sullivan notes that in both instances in which crowds have shouted “kill him” (as opposed to “bomb Obama” or “off with his head”) only one reporter heard it. Republicans have argued that this makes the accounts suspect, as in the second case the Secret Service was unable to find a second witness. Dana Milbank, […]

It’s sort of funny to watch the Right flip out over Jesse Jackson‘s comments on Barack Obama and Zionism: Jackson believes that, although “Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades” remain strong, they’ll lose a great deal of their clout when Barack Obama enters the White House. “Obama is about change,” Jackson told me […]

On his show yesterday, Maha Rushie practically defacated on himself with fear as he described a decades old afro-centric conspiracy to overthrow the U.S. government perpetrated by Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, and William Ayers. We thought that it was just liberal welfare policies and all that that kept blacks from progressing while other minorities grew […]

A McCain-Palin supporter in Scranton: Each time the Republican candidate for the seat in the 10th Congressional District mentioned Barack Obama, the crowd booed loudly. One man screamed “kill him!” It’s not the McCain campaign’s fault. Just because they’re suggesting Obama is an un-American subversive who is facilitating a socialist takeover of the United States […]

I really, for the life of me, cannot understand why Jake Tapper would spend time debunking the idea that Palin was “cleared of wrongdoing” only to turn around let Sarah Palin call it rain when it comes to the idea that the Branchflower report was a “partisan witch-hunt”: One can make the argument, as Palin […]

The son of William F. Buckley, the founder of conservatism’s flagship magazine, National Review, has endorsed Obama. Christopher Buckley cites the response to Kathleen Parker‘s column on Palin as the reason for endorsing Obama outside the pages of National Review. As for Kathleen, she has to date received 12,000 (quite literally) foam-at-the-mouth hate-emails. One correspondent, […]

Dean Reynolds explains. All you have to do is keep the buffalo wings warm and the blue cheese cool: The McCain folks are more helpful and generally friendly. The schedules are printed on actual books you can hold in your hand, read, and then plan accordingly. The press aides are more knowledgeable and useful to […]

I often enjoy Jonathan Martin‘s blog, but I’m baffled by two posts that went up in the past 24 hours. In the first post, Martin asserts that McCain is essentially going to be accused of racism no matter what he does: John McCain is damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t. He could […]