On Tuesday, Massachusetts became the latest state to pass the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, that would assign the state’s electoral votes for President and Vice President to the winner of the most popular votes.

For the sake of foreign readers: in our system, the two offices are indirectly elected by an Electoral College.| MORE ›

Although I expressed some disappointment last night toward Andrew Breitbart over his handling of the Shirley Sherrod video, I can certainly understand how the situation got like this.

By Breitbart’s own account on CNN this afternoon, he only received during the weekend the two videos that he posted on Monday, although he’s apparently known about them since March. So Breitbart gets these two videos, and now he has a choice to make:| MORE ›

The video Andrew Breitbart released on Monday featuring former USDA Georgia Rural Development Director Shirley Sherrod, where she recounted how she had withheld help from a white farmer who was facing foreclosure on his property, appeared to reveal yet more evidence that Barack Obama is quite comfortable working with racists. Except that not all was as it seemed. When I viewed the full video of Sherrod’s speech released by the NAACP on Tuesday, it became clear to me that Sherrod’s words were taken out of context.| MORE ›

Gallup published Barack Obama’s approval rating per state. The results of the pollster’s large-scale research are fascinating: they show that, only 1.5 years into his first term, the president should already start planning for life after the White House.

The top 10 of states in which Obama’s approval rating is the lowest are, according to Gallup:

Now, while most of these states went to John McCain in 2008, not all did. New Hampshire went to Obama and quite easily so. His margin of victory was almost ten percent.| MORE ›

You read it here first folks: I am against France’s ban of burqas. I cringed a little bit when I read about it last week, but recovered when I read about a poll that says 2/3 of Americans are against a burqa ban.| MORE ›

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David Deyen at FireDogLake is torn over Obama’s deepwater drilling moratorium:

Apparently how it goes is you can announce a moratorium, have the courts nullify it, and then go ahead and announce a new moratorium. I’m concerned about what that says about checks and balances, and where the line gets drawn.

Hurray!  A liberal concerned about a violation of checks and balances when a Democrat is in office.| MORE ›

I never thought I would be defending a radical Muslim of anything, but then I read this Telegraph article today about how Canada charged radical Muslim Salman Hossain with “promoting genocide,” as well as “promoting hatred” against the Jewish people of Canada and the United States. Hossain is the first person in Canada to be charged with such a crime.

The calls for violence he made and continues to make are, of course, abhorrent, but I have to defend his right to say them.| MORE ›

That’s because Fox is partnering with Saudi Arabian Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal to create a network in the Middle East. Though I guess just because it’ll have News Corp. backing doesn’t necessarily mean it’ll be friendly to the Western interests, if only because the network won’t be incredibly profitable if it’s all pro-West, all the time.  But I’ll take a bet that it will be less biased against the West than, say, Al-Jazeera.| MORE ›