Bill Ayers and Barack Obama

Stanley Kurtz has been silent for several weeks, as he scoured the archives at the University of Illinois-Chicago's Daley Library on the subject of the Annenberg Challenge and the relationship between Ayers and Obama. His article was published today in the WSJ and is essential reading. The Obama campaign did absolutely everything they could, from bullying broadcasters who dared to interview Kurtz to putting pressure (Chicago Style)on the Daley Library to restrict access to the archives.
Much more here from Kurtz at NRO - fascinating.

It's about time

Seen the new tv ads for Microsoft Windows with Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld? Very hip-indy-film, very funny in that "the Office" kind of way. A great way to reintroduce Microsoft to a public that has been brainwashed by Uber-cool Apple for far too many years. Now the newest ads feature a bunch of people who look nothing like "PC" on the Apple commercials - all repeating, "I am PC.." It is about time.
Microsoft has its problems, without a doubt - and one of them was clearly allowing Apple to take the "cool" road without a fight. But Apple has its own set of problems.
I have always liked the nerds, especially those nerds with a sense of humor - heck...I liked them so much - I married one!!

Sarah Palin is not a phenomenon

This quote from a woman at a Virginia rally may explain everything to those who can't understand her sustained appeal:

'She justifies what we do every day. She does what we do, she lives like we do. She's just as flawed as we are. There are more American parents with unwed pregnant teenage children than American parents with Harvard graduates. She's real.'

Not sure whether her numbers are correct, but I bet she is right.
While Obama is busy trying to make jokes at Palin's expense with vulgar put-downs, this woman seems to have embraced a Palinesque way to gently poke at Obama without losing sight of the larger point.

She's Baaack!

Okay, okay... The clamor from the throngs of avid readers has turned deafening. I will try again. For my first post in a year, I will, naturally, turn to presidential politics - specifically, Barack Obama. I have tried, as many others have as well, to find a rational explanation for his being the Democrats' nominee for President of the United States. I am still at a loss, but this essay from Canada's Globe and Mail describes him and his present situation better than almost anything I have read.
And here is a photo for you all, just for fun.