“You know, my husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California.” — Hillary Clinton DAVID BROMWICH: The most disturbing element of her remark was this: that it chose to treat assassination as just one more political possibility, one of the things that happen in our politics, like hecklers, lobbyists, and forced resignations. The slovenly morale and callousness of such a released fantasy is catching. So when, a few days later, the Fox News contributor Liz […]

THE NATIONAL POST: Over the years, chess champ turned politico Gary Kasparov has suffered all kinds of indignity: famously undone at his own game by IBM’s Deep Blue more than a decade ago, notoriously arrested and jailed by Russian police for his activism last year. Yesterday, however, he faced his most surreal attack yet. While making a public plea for unity against nemesis Vladimir Putin, a mysterious dangling object from the ceiling distracted the room: an airborne penis with a helicopter attached to its testicles. Undaunted, a bodyguard advanced on the unwelcome member with his fist, neutering it with vicious […]

TIMES ONLINE: Barack Obama is poised to reach an important milestone tonight in his nomination battle against Hillary Clinton by capturing a majority of elected delegates on offer in all the primary and caucus states, as voters go to the polls in Kentucky and Oregon. Mr Obama, who is expected to win Oregon but suffer another heavy defeat in Kentucky, heads tonight to Iowa, the scene of his first breakthrough victory in January, as a backdrop to announce that after 53 contests, he has an unassailable lead among elected delegates. Yet Mr Obama will be still be short of the […]

BY AMY Z. QUINN Down in D.C. today, the FCC is holding a summit on the state of the country’s emergency alert system, which many of you know as “the annoying beep that interrupts Clifford and makes your toddler cry.” And soon — remember, we’re talking government time here so “soon” means at some uncertain point in the future, if ever — 90-character emergency text messages could come through to your cell phone, alerting you to national disasters, emergency missives from the President, and Amber Alerts.That is, if the government agencies involved can stop dickering over which one will run […]

WARNING: F-bombing cats and dogs in this one. BILL O’REILLY: F*cks Ann Coulter WARNING: F-bomb Alert Defcon 5!

PREVIOUSLY: Seriously, West Virginny coal-crackers voting for a Republican is like the turkeys voting for Thanksgiving. Letting these people vote is like putting a loaded shotgun in the baby’s crib and hoping for the best. I don’t know about you, but I am against putting a loaded shotgun in the baby’s crib and hoping for the best. RELATED: A Whiter Shade Of Trash Obama Faces Racism in West Virginia – The best video clips are here PREVIOUSLY: I am saying this for the good of the country and, in fact, for the good of white people. Because I fear for […]

“It’s not over until the lady in the pant suit says it is.” Tell it, Angela! Hillary wins big in West Virginia Democrats, while Obama’s peacenik, self-consciously liberal loyalists press “you’re with us, or you’re a racist” case. And because that whole separate-and-unequal superdelegate thing has been such a smashing success, George McGovern has a plan! If it’s going to be about more than race, then stop making it about exposing the racist heart of America and start figuring out how to make that state full of people you just called bigots vote for your guy in November [Sheesh, talk […]

HUFFINGTON POST: In April, The New York Times published a story exposing the deep ties between numerous media military analysts and the Pentagon and defense industries. The Times noted that “the Bush administration has used its control over access and information in an effort to transform” media military analysts, many of whom have clients or work for companies with an interest in obtaining Pentagon contracts, “into a kind of media Trojan horse — an instrument intended to shape terrorism coverage from inside the major TV and radio networks.” HuffPost’s Jason Linkins noted at the time that neither the Times nor […]