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To understand Senator Obama’s view regarding Israel, and US interests in the Middle East as a whole, one would do themselves a favor by becoming familiar with Liberation Theology. A few good sources for doing that might start with its birth from mid-twentieth Catholic-Marxist thought, through the decades to one of its current branches - “Black” Liberation Theology. One could begin with the current Pope’s thoughts on it in the 1980’s, or Wikipedia if you must. If one has time Ron Rhodes has treatments on both the original Latin American Liberation Theology, and on the present form of “Black” Liberation...

Ordinarily it takes about 48-72 hours for any major political event to begin to see movement in the polls. Obama makes a speech on Tuesday - you won’t see the effects until Thursday or Friday. But in this case, don’t hold your breath. He didn’t do it. He didn’t explain how he could “transcend race” but sit in a pew for the much-vaunted twenty four years at a Black Liberationist church under Crazy Uncle Hate-Whitey. But we all know why. Obama wanted a political future and he wanted it as a Black Guy. He has to hook into the main...

The new York Democratic party is now searching frantically for a monogamous member to take the office. Early insiders include: Emo Phillips Big Bird Billy Joel Camille Paglia Tucker Carlson Feivel Mouse Any suggestions would be gratefully accepted. Please email Idontscrewaround@NYDNC.net

Obama’s youtube stuff is definitely going downhill. They were always a bit brain-damaged and breathless but now they’re downright stupid. Check this one out: Instructions for Obama supporters - click the triangle in front of the kid standing in front of the Navaho-hippie-day-glo-postmodern-stained-glass-window-thingie below.The Secret Is Obama (Click on site-link to view new creepy-stupid Obama Video and Commentary.)

The Democratic party is swiftly turning into the Jerry Springer Party. The Democratic presidential contest is about one degree away from folding chairs flying and security guards tackling the guests amid the biting, scratching and name-calling. The DU’ers are at each other’s throats. JERRY! JERRY! JERRY! Even though the resignation of New York Governor Eliot “Backdoor” Spitzer is the story of the day, the recent comments of infamous womanyst and the first female VP candidate for a major US political party Geraldine Ferraro are worth quoting here. The followers of the various victimhood factions of the Dems have decided to...

In a New York Times Op-ed today, Orlando Patterson, Professor of Sociology at Hahvahd University actually tries to make the case that Hillary Clinton’s “It’s 3am” ad is - brace yourself - racist!. ...when I saw the Clinton ad’s central image — innocent sleeping children and a mother in the middle of the night at risk of mortal danger — it brought to my mind scenes from the past. I couldn’t help but think of D. W. Griffith’s “Birth of a Nation,” the racist movie epic that helped revive the Ku Klux Klan, with its portrayal of black men lurking...

Canadian liberals are pretty upset over the role their Conservative government played in knocking Obama off his pulpit this week. It appears to be developing into a nasty little scandal - at least by Canadian standards. Now, because this story came from Canada you may have already forgotten what the flap was about, so let’s refresh your memory. Somebody from Canada said that somebody from Obama’s camp told them not to get too upset over The Freshman Messiah’s anti-NAFTA rhetoric. He was just posturing. The Cloak Of Canadian Invisibility lifted for just a moment, the Media actually payed attention and...

Last we looked in, poor Donnie had photoshopped his wedding ring onto a desert background (”Ring_of_despair”) and sent it to Ebay. Now he’s going on a very badly needed vacation to Mexico at a cut-rate hotel hosting “Half-Dollar Nipple Night” in “You Suck At Photoshop.

Forget the delegate count, this whole post-Ohio/Texas Democrat political crisis has revealed a deeper truth. How can a political party so riven by internal strife, so tribal, so disorganized, and now flapping about the national barnyard like a beheaded chicken, possibly be allowed to actually govern our country? Are we really going to elect The Feckless Mooncalf or Nurse Rached?

Top 10 Reasons Hillary Won’t Become Obama’s Veep 10. Can’t understand why he keeps sending back the case of Malt Liquor 40’s she gave him. 9. Sick of Michelle’s constant offer to take her clothes shopping. 8. Can’t remember what direction Mecca is. 7. Allergic to Pit Bulls. 6. Still convinced the Super Delegates like candles and hot oil rubs more than ambassadorships. 5. Frightened that David Shuster’s Chelsea comment will be taken literally. 4. Exhausted keeping Bill away from Michelle at social events. 3. Wants to punch Al Gore’s smirk right through his g*damn face. 2. “Y’all could be...

10. Doesn’t have the legs for the maid outfit. 9. Too claustrophobic to spend four years chained to the wall in the White House basement. 8. Can’t afford to lose any more of Michelle’s respect. 7. Unnerved by Hillary’s constant viewing of “Mandingo”. 6. Doesn’t want to have to drag Bill out of strip clubs. 5. “What wine goes with a double whopper and cheese?” 4. Will lose his spot on the UFO when it comes to take him and his followers to Venus. 3. Hillary’s threatened to take away his Wii. 2. Doesn’t want to be held responsible when...

Dems have either been born with or acquired over time a vulnerability to identity politics - as if they have a special set of chemo-receptors in their brain that binds to the free floating race/gender/class memes flushing through the body politic. This is not a problem in normal times when they are offered a single choice. But what do you get in a year when all of their receptors are maxed out? You get chaos. Lovely, lovely chaos. You get the toothsome spectacle of upper-class Feminists eschewing the Serious Woman for the Cute, Smooth Talking Black Guy. You get hard-boiled...

Even the MSM were impressed by GOP Presidential Mike Huckabee's speech at the FRC Values Voters Summit 2007. Video of his speech is compiled in three parts here. See for yourself what all the buzz is about.

Poor old Dan Rather is in his dotage. It’s time to take away the matches and the keys. It is no longer safe to allowed him out on his own. He has lurched publicly into the “I’ve-fallen-and-I-can’t-get-up” twilight of advanced age. He has officially become an Old Fart. How do we know this? 1. Still Angry After All These Years. For Old Farts, the outrage they felt over the Smoot-Hawley Tariff is just as fresh today as it was Way Back When. This ire is like a well-aged Gumbo simmering away for decades in their mental pot. It is prone...

Democrats and their liberal brethren are facing a very big problem this week. Having staked a large portion of their political capital on U.S. defeat in Iraq they must now come to grips with the possibility that we might actually win this war. This would be - if not actual disaster, at least a serious setback to their future plans. They rode anti-war sentiment into the Congress with real hopes that the Republicans would continue their losing streak right up to the White House next year. However, Bush and the G.O.P. unexpectedly doubled down and began to win a few....

Read this chiller from Tori: I was witness to the shark sighting Saturday august 4th. I have not one doubt in my mind that what I saw was a great white shark. It breached out of the water, I could see it clearly, other species of sharks just don’t do that. It seems to me that the beach officials are taking this way too lightly considering the large number of witnesses who saw the attack. In fact, they haven’t even confirmed this as a shark attack yet despite the evidence that washed up on shore hours later (the mangled seal)....

The Beast just came across this story published today WHDH News Site: Beach-goers shiver after possible shark attack ORLEANS, Mass. — Evidence of a bloody attack has washed ashore on Nauset Beach in Orleans. The victim was a seal, not a person. But people are still concerned that a shark came so close. Joe Deetz’s family said they saw a shark devour a seal right before their eyes — in the shallow water only 50 ft. from shore Now the family is scared to… yes… go back into the water. “I could have been the seal,” said Dayton Deetz.

Due to the staggering popularity of W.A.K.A.T.P.O.O.N. part one, The Beast has decided to bow to reader requests and add several more nations to the list. He had thought originally that ten was a nice round number, but you want more. 11. Israel. A nation which confounds the stereotype of the meek, skinny, bookish Hebrew Kid who always gets picked last for touch football at recess, Americans have no idea how the Israeli political system works, but they do know that if you mess with them, they will give you a quick death wholesale. Israel does not dick around and...

It’s amazing how much foreigners know about American politics. Well, ok, it’s not that amazing because American politics actually counts for something, unlike most of the rest of the world. In contrast, Americans are relatively uninformed about how the rest of the world governs itself, but we do know a little, and here it is: 1. France. A nation run by Frenchmen must neccesarily be arrogant, indolent and autocratic. Their political system is a complete mystery, but we do know that every once in a while they take one of their five-hour lunches off to have an election. We suspect...

You too can write like a loony conspiracy theorist! Welcome to the THB Moonbat Writing Tutorial, M1. In this first lesson we will go over they style and content guidelines for writing like a true left-wing Blogger. You only need to learn a few simple rules and you can be up and howling at the moon like all your buddies! Please read each rule carefully and complete the Sample Assignments below. 1. Rage Against the Dying of the Light. Emotion is a perfectly acceptable alternative to reason. In fact, in most cases it’s preferable, because you don’t need to support...