GEORGE MCGOVERN: My Party Should Respect Secret Union Ballots.
GEORGE MCGOVERN: My Party Should Respect Secret Union Ballots.
A JOHN EDWARDS VICTORY LAP FOR MICKEY KAUS -- but he's promising more to come.
TEST-DRIVING the Nissan Cube electric car.
EDWARDS ADMITS THAT HE LIED ABOUT AFFAIR: But the real story is how the mainstream press, despite knowing or strongly suspecting that he was lying, covered for him.
There are two Americas -- the real one, and the one the press tries to fob off on us.
UPDATE: Big roundup here.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Tom Maguire: "I guess this means the LA Times is free to report on it." Better ask Tony Pierce, just to be sure!
Plus, from Ann Althouse:
Imagine if he'd gotten the nomination. What a selfish bastard — to run for the nomination while parading his cancerous wife about and knowing that if he won this story could have come out at any time — maybe in October — screwing up his party's chances!
Indeed.
MORE: Byron York:
Wow. The Edwards story has suddenly appeared on the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the networks — everywhere. John Edwards has somehow become newsworthy again.
Yeah, go figure.
THIS TIME THEY DIDN'T LEAVE OUT ED WOOD: A list of essential biopics.
VIRGINIA POSTREL: "Barack Obama is a real candidate running for the real presidency, not a fictional character, and I am not optimistic about his world view. Dreams from My Father suggests a deep-seated belief that economic and social dynamism inevitably and unrelievedly produce chaos, disorder, and despair." This is from a while back, but I had missed it when it appeared, and it's still timely.
LAYING THE HATE ON HYBRIDS: I dunno, though -- my Highlander Hybrid is pretty fun to drive, for an SUV. And I say that as a guy whose other car is an RX-8, so it's not like I'm comparing it to a Yaris.
THE GROWING THREAT OF antibiotic-resistant bacteria. "You might think this doesn't have anything to do with you. But you are one car accident away from being in a hospital. Also, the drug resistance mutations found in bacteria in hospitals will likely swap genetic material with other species of bacteria that are found more widely outside of hospitals." Yes, this is an extremely urgent matter that's being treated as a not-very-urgent matter.
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES PAYING ATTENTION to developing clean energy via nanotechnology.
ANOTHER NO-KNOCK RAID GONE BAD:
When the shooting stopped, two dogs lay dead. A mayor sat in his boxers, hands bound behind his back. His handcuffed mother-in-law was sprawled on the kitchen floor, lying beside the body of one of the family pets that police had killed before her eyes.
After the raid, Prince George's County police officials who burst into the home of Berwyn Heights' mayor last week seized the same unopened package of marijuana that an undercover officer had delivered an hour earlier.
What police left behind was a house stained with blood and a trail of questions about their conduct. No other evidence of illegal activity was found, and no one was arrested at Mayor Cheye Calvo's home in this small bedroom community near College Park.
This week Prince George's police arrested two men for orchestrating a plot to deliver marijuana to the addresses of unsuspecting recipients -- among them, Calvo's wife, Trinity Tomsic.
Yet neither county Police Chief Melvin C. High nor Sheriff Michael A. Jackson have apologized to him, his wife or her mother, Georgia Porter, for the raid that traumatized the family and killed their black Labrador retrievers, Payton and Chase.
Thursday, Calvo called on the U.S. Justice Department's civil rights division to investigate the raid and other similar actions by Prince George's law enforcement. He said officers burst into his house without knocking or announcing themselves, in violation of the warrant they had.
We need federal civil rights legislation stripping officials of immunity in cases like this. Maybe now that they're raiding politicians' houses, we'll see some action.
UPDATE: Radley Balko has much more. Plus this: "I guess I'd just add that the national media coverage of the Berwyn Heights raid seems to be predicated on the assumption that the most troubling aspects of the raid—the killing of the dogs, the violent tactics, the lax investigation, the likely innocent victims, and the police obstinacy after the fact—are unusual. They aren't. The only thing unusual about this raid is that its victim happened to be an elected politician."
KATHY SHAIDLE: Ezra Levant 1, Canadian Thought Police 0.
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: ONE THING OBAMA GETS RIGHT:
The underreported economic news of the week is that Barack Obama favors a stronger dollar. Even better, he thinks a stronger greenback would help to reduce oil prices.
That at least is what the Democratic Presidential candidate told a town hall forum in Parma, Ohio, on Tuesday. "If we had a strengthening of the dollar, that would help" reduce fuel costs, he said, according to a Reuters dispatch ignored by most of the media.
This ought to be a bigger story. . . . We don't know who is whispering in Mr. Obama's ear about the dollar, but he's on to a rich political vein. Americans know instinctively that something is wrong when the Canadian loonie is worth more than the greenback. Over to you, John McCain.
I wonder if this means he's getting advice from Austan Goolsbee again.
REPUBLICAN SENATORS blowing it on energy.
NECK AND NECK: "The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday again shows Barack Obama attracting 44% of the vote while and John McCain earns 43%. When 'leaners' are included, it’s Obama 47% and McCain 46%. With leaners, the candidates have been within one point of each other for eight straight days."
HILLARY CLINTON as Ronald Reagan?