Via Michelle Malkin, you can watch Rev. Wright do his usual thing:

Hillary Clinton, earmarker extraordinary: ‘Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) has requested nearly $2.3 billion in federal earmarks for 2009, almost three times the largest amount received by a single senator this year.’ (more…)

‘The Supreme Court upheld Indiana’s voter identification law on Monday, concluding in a splintered decision that the challengers failed to prove that the law’s photo ID requirement placed an unconstitutional burden on the right to vote,’ the New York Times reports. Six of the Justice voted to uphold the law, three voted against it. (more…)

It seems that French prisons are filled with Muslims. Although Muslims only form 12% or so of France’s total population, they form 60 to 70% of the country’s prison population. 70%. Although, according to researchers, criminologists and Muslim leaders ‘immigrants and the children of immigrants are disproportionately represented in almost every prison system’ on the European continent, France is overdoing it a tad bit. (more…)

Big campaigns. “In a year when campaign spending is already setting records, Washington’s culture of cash continues to overwhelm efforts to reform Congress.”

The Dutch city of Enschede is currently hosting an exposition of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk; the father of modern Turkey. After the Ottoman Empire collapsed, the great powers planned on dividing the Empire between themselves, but instead they were forced out of the area which is called “Turkey” today, because of Mustafa Kemal’s (as he was known then) military leadership. (more…)

 Andrew Sullivan on America’s slippery torture slope:

And so abuse and torture are entirely dependent, we are told, on the apparent motives of the abusers and torturers. But torture is actually defined in the law as an illegal tool devised not for sadism’s sake but as a means to extract information. And notice the extremely slippery slope.| MORE ›

This is quite entertaining: Alan Keyes left the Republican Party, and joined the so-called Constitutional Party, thinking that this extremely conservative party would nominate him for the presidency. Sadly for the radical politician, however, the party’s members didn’t quite agree that he was the right man for the job: they nominated Chuck Baldwin – the party’s VP candidate four years ago – instead. Quote of the day: “Chuck Baldwin will have no impact on this election whatsoever.”

This post is dedicated to our Catholic readers (and people who aren’t Catholics, but who appreciate the Catholic religion and, of course, Catholic churches): ‘A life is like a stained-glass window. Colorful yet clear. Translucent yet obscured. Strong yet fragile. An arrangement of shard-moments held by a force that keeps everything in place. Miraculous things — life and stained-glass windows. Still, yet moving. Works of art that change as daylight inevitably turns to nightdark.’ (more…)