Weekly Standard Blog: Obama 'Generates...Stark Racial Cleavages Among Americans'

Well, if the racial shit hasn't yet hit the 2008 election fan, it's certainly close enough for the fan to smell the stink. Here's what Weekly Standard blog poster Gary Andres had to say yesterday about the Gallup Poll showing that Clinton fares considerably better among white voters than does Obama:

It's ironic that a candidate such as Obama -- whose rhetoric and strategy relies so much on building unity -- generates such stark racial cleavages among Americans.

Burma Government Didn't Warn of Killer Cyclone

Jeff Masters, a meteorologist with the web site Weather Underground, has uncovered an amazing story related to the cyclone that killed thousands in Burma: The government buried a warning of the impending storm on page 15 of a state-run newspaper.

All Hail Private Enterprise, Except When......Layoffs Coming to Prison Labor?

Turns out that the federal prison racket...sorry, the Federal Prison Industries (FPI), which operates under the brand name Unicor, is all a-tizzy over the audacity of congress in requiring that federal agencies put their contracts for office furniture and the like out to bid rather than giving their business solely to FPI.

Hey Mr. Sandman, Revise Me A Dream

Revisionism is nothing more than a childish attempt to pound reality into a shape which will fit nicely into the form of your existing ideas. Its certain consequence--deliberate in many instances--is to distort the past so that sensible actions appear to be mistakes, and mistakes appear to have been sensible actions. If you want to repeat the mistakes of history, just let the revisionists have at it.

Intelligent Design by Aliens: It's Turtles all the Way Down

Among the many endearing aspects of zealous Christians is
the tendency to be, let's say disingenuous, as the least
offensive of the possible descriptions. When called on the
fact that "Intelligent Design" (ID) theory is little more
than creationism once removed, some ID proponents point out
that, hey, they aren't saying who the intelligent
designer is...could be aliens.

Can't Hide: China's New Labor Law Spells Doom For Some!

It was bound to happen, and maybe this is some good news for a change, and amazing, yes, that the MSM chose to ignore this story, to which I was tipped off to: China's new contract law for workers is already kicking the shins out of foreign companies...now, where do they go for the cheapy labor, mmmm?

San Diego: Poster City/Child for Republican Competence?

San Diego, the city which was literally run aground by its Republican Mayor and several other officials who underfunded the city's pensions and kind of forgot to be honest about it when reporting the financial details to the public, rating agencies, etc. San Diego, central to the Southern California fiefdoms of corrupt Republican legislators like Duke Cunningham, Jerry Lewis, and a cast of...others. San Diego, city who's Republican Party, according to Raw Story, made a software pirate its Chairman.

NC GOP Head Has Her Own Version of Reverend Wright

Yet more evidence that you really can't spell hypocrisy without GOP: turns out that Linda Daves--the NC GOP Chair associated with the ad attacking two Democratic candidates for NC state office based on their association with Obama, who, of course, is associated with Reverend Wright--is a member of a church which recently defunded some local charities because they had the audacity to work with Catholics.

David To Goliath: You're A Damned Bully!

Consider this a rant, and a news piece at the same time. Part of what we love to do here at WTW is to expose the MSM, and yes, expose others in the process. I ask a question I asked all the way back to 1963...

The 'Nonpartisan' Scam

In an era when every subject and every institution has been corrupted by partisanship, newspeak and general sleaze, one of the most egregious examples is the designation "nonpartisan" for some nonprofit. The first thing that any self-respecting partisan wants, of course, is to be seen as nonpartisan, so very, very few of the current bumper crop of "nonpartisan" nonprofits actually is.