Manufacturing Obama: He "worked his way through college" with two summer jobs | Redstate This time he is saying in his most recent ad that he "worked his way through college and Harvard Law". FactCheck.org fact-checked and it turns out that it isn’t true. He had two (2!) jobs during college and graduate school.

Young illegal immigrants lose their San Francisco sanctuary - Los Angeles Times "I was unaware that the city had its own foreign policy and immigration laws that superseded federal law," San Bernardino County Supervisor Gary Ovitt said, referring to San Francisco. "No one should have to suffer from a poorly thought-out policy such as this."

Power Line: Change the Teamsters can believe in Wall Street Journal reporters Brody Mullins and Kris Maher reported in early May how Barack Obama won the Teamsters’ endorsement for president. In a meeting earlier this year, he privately "told the union that he supported ending the strict federal oversight imposed to root out corruption[.]" Obama holds himself out as a new kind of politician who refuses to play the old games. The story should have blown Obama’s pretense up several times over, but it has generated next to no coverage.

David Pryce-Jones on National Review Online The more he researched his novel, Sansal tells us, the more he saw “a substantial similarity between Nazism and the political order that prevails in Algeria.” Both are one-party states, with militarization, brainwashing, the falsification of history, the exaltation of the race, the tendency to claim victimhood and to assert that there is a conspiracy against the nation. There is glorification of the leader, an omnipresent police, mass organizations, religious indoctrination. Xenophobia, racism, and anti-Semitism, he adds, have been elevated to the status of dogmas. We all know, he sums up, that “the line separating Nazism from Islamism is a thin one.”

Matthew Yglesias (July 02, 2008) - Torture Works: For Its Intended Purpose (Foreign Policy) I’ve seen lots of commentary on the revelation that Bush administration torture techniques have been modeled on the work of the ChiComs but not much specific focus on the fact that the main purpose of these Chinese torture techniques was to elicit false confessions.

Joe Klein Lives! - By Mickey Kaus - Slate Magazine Obama’s career has been unusually limited for a presidential contender. Housing and "community development" has been a big part of it. If the result has been a disaster in which Obama’s friends made lots of money while his poor constituents lived in dangerous squalor, that seems like a big warning sign, no?