Power Line: Did Bob Dylan approve this message?

Time for some campaignin’ (sez JibJab), and our friend ask, “Did Bob Dylan approve this message?”

background research

where does Obama come from? Season 2 of Hill Street Blues knows. Check out this Danny Glover role for hints.

messianism watch

Go right now and read this article: “Obama, Shaman” by Michael Knox Beran. We’ve discussed the peculiar and perverse nature of Obama’s appeal–more than just another dishonest, pandering politician, Obama is the chief representative of a religious politics (see his Oprah-fied “spiritual” gloss on the seething Marxist rancor of his spiritual mentor Wright). […]

more sanguinary Kool-Aid

best line of the day goes again to Thomas S. Hibbs:

Interview on The Death of the Grown-up: How America’s Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization on National Review Online

I take a backseat to no one in the gloom-and-doom department, but The Death of the Grown-up: How America’s Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization may be going too far:

Supreme Court reports/retorts

Jonathan Adler has a little dose of reality for us, asking Is This Still a “Conservative Court”?

music to my ears

Illinoisans may have a governor with dim respect for the state constitution (but, hey, why should the states be more constitutional than the nation?) and less concern for blatant corruption, but at least it’s got some mayors who don’t think it’s worth fighting The Supremes. Sorry, that would be the Supreme Court. Ahem. […]

for your consideration

Without further comment:

(Power Line: Major E. has a few words on Rep. Delahunt)
Ref: Power Line’s take on the background to the Delahunt story.

someone told me it’s all happening at the zoo

Todd Zywicki points us to a Dr. Seuss-inspired set of posts on academic wish-fulfillment fantasies. There’s some pretty good stuff, here, both in terms of diagnosis of current problems and aspirations for those of us engaged in the culture of academia. One that leaps out to me is Zywicki’s concern with “corporatization”:
Much of […]

because stirring the pot is fun

Responding to the ongoing lionization of Margaret Sanger by the organization she founded to carry out her preferred policies, we get the following excerpt from Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg on NRO:
Sanger [ . . . ] brilliantly used the language of liberation to convince women they weren’t going along with a collectivist scheme but […]