Category: The Dish

Michelle Malkin lambastes the Wall Street Journal editorial board on immigration.

The former president – a transcript and a video.

It’s the same as all gangster movies, as the great African-American critic C. L. R. James was among the first to point out:

"In the end ‘crime does not pay,’ but for an hour and a half highly skilled actors and a huge organization of production and distribution have given to many millions a sense of active living…"

One taker:

A 31-year-old college-educated male New Yorker (or Californian) who may or may not already own an iPod and has a yearly household income of $75,600.

It’s the Wii for grownups.

"Not that Scooter Libby has asked for my advice, but I also must say that that the ardor of his supporters — including, I believe, NR — has hurt him, and hurt the conservative movement, in very fundamental ways.  As to him personally, all this passionate rhetoric about his heroic service to the United States, how the investigation should never have happened, and how he got unfairly singled out and screwed (all of which I agree with) would be fine if it weren’t obscuring something fairly important:  Lying to the FBI and a grand jury is a very bad thing, even if we all think it was an unworthy investigation," – Andy McCarthy, NRO. Read the whole post.

Another Republican – even one working for McCain – sees the potential for Obama’s re-branding of America. Not great news for the Arizona senator, of course. But I hazard Mark McKinnon is fond of McCain and Obama for the same reason: beneath all the compromises, both men are decent in a time of indecency.

Major nerd discovers eighteenth century Koran.

Former clerk of the House, Jeff Trandahl, breaks his public silence on the Foley scandal. He reports:

"Foley was a ticking time bomb. His case shows how dangerous closeted gays can be for openly gay people."

If you think Hastert didn’t know all about this, you’re dreaming.

From the Atlantic archives, a first-person account of D-Day, the anniversary of which was yesterday:

"We saw no sign of fear in him. Watching him made men of us. Marching or fighting, he was leading. We followed him because there was nothing else to do."

TBogg is unimpressed with the Politico’s coverage of the GOP campaign:

How odd that a a dazzling urbanite like Roger Simon, who is wise in the mysterious ways of the Beltway, is so starstruck by the twinkly eyes and big shoulders of His Man Mitt, yet the good common sense Iowaians can see right through him.