Christian Science Monitor ran this story about the Pentagon shooter, orginally titled: “John Patrick Bedell: did right-wing extremism lead to shooting?” To their credit they have now changed their headline and mentioned this fact in the article.
The change came about due to a lot of good detective work by bloggers. Here Michelle Malkin reveals [...]

Nice flowchart guide to the politics of “offensive” statements in US politics from the Pillage Idiot. Click to enlarge.

As Mark Steyn comments:
One understands the realities of power. You can talk about how light-skinned and clean the Negro is and that’s perfectly okay as long as you support the President’s policies or (as Mr Obama [...]

Jay Nordlinger commenting on Barack Obama’s latest insult to Republicans:
Barack Obama is pretty interesting when he gets in front of his money-givers — his biggest fans, I guess. In New York, he said, “Democrats are an opinionated bunch. You know, the other side, they just kinda sometimes do what they’re told. Democrats, y’all thinkin’ for [...]

Some in the US are under the delusion that JFK and Bobby Kennedy were “murdered by the right wing” when of course they were not.
Meanwhile, we find out about Ted Kennedy’s love of humour:

Jonah Goldberg writes a decent article which notes that JFK was by no means left-wing and that:

Hence one of the great ironies [...]

This is why the Democrat Party in the US is in a hurry to enact transformative legislation:

National Survey of 1,000 Likely Voters
Conducted August 5-8, 2009
By Rasmussen Reports
I’m going to read you a short list of issues in the news. For each, please let me know which political party you trust more to handle that issue. [...]