Liberal Talk Radio

Mike Huckabee has been endorsed by Chuck Norris, Ted Nugent, and now, Rick Flair.
That’s quite a list of surrogates. And if you haven’t seen the Chuck Norris Huckabee ad, it’s well worth 60 seconds of your time.

The Norwegian diaspora in the upper Midwest loses a point of pride when Norway closes its consulate in Minneapolis.
But give it to the Norwegians themselves for an underwhelming, if charming, show of class:
Wegger Christian Strommen, the recently appointed Norwegian ambassador, said no one was abandoning the Midwest.
“We’re not going to leave,” Mr. Strommen said in [...]

In case you haven’t heard, Amazon released an e-book reader called Kindle this week. On the surface, it’s a compelling package: it can deliver books, newspapers, and a few blogs over the cell network, with no monthly charges. You buy the books, you buy the content as you want it. Battery life seems [...]

Great little “gotcha” video from the writers of The Daily Show, currently on strike:

Either content has value or it doesn’t. Viacom wants it both ways.

I’m genuinely surprised that that many people watched the debate last week. Granted, that’s only 2 or 3 percent of people who will vote in ‘08, but assuming most were Democratic primary voters, it’s actually a nontrivial amount.
Wolf Blitzer’s getting a lot of flack for his “gotcha” interview style that seems allergic [...]

Once gain, science shows that I am undoubtedly left-handed.

Slate’s collection of Peanuts strips and exerpts from the new Schultz autobiography are pretty awesome.
But even more amazing is the fact that Schultz was earning $90K/year … by 1957, and upwards of $40M/year by the 1990s. Unbelievable.

Mickey Kaus argues that Barack Obama is contradicting himself by trying to run as both a “real democrat” and a “bipartisan bridge-builder.” Kaus thinks that you can’t have it both ways, that being a bridge-builder means sticking it to the Democratic base sometimes.
Hey may be right, but it’s not clear that Obama has another [...]

Sentencing Commission to consider making the cocaine sold in black neighborhoods only slightly more illegal than the cocaine sold in white neighborhoods:
The commission is taking up one of the most racially sensitive issues of the two-decades-old war on drugs. Jurists and civil rights organizations have long complained that the commission’s guidelines mandate more stringent federal [...]