I missed a bit of a milestone recently. My 3000th post. But I’d rather call attention to myself and ask that you lavish praise for my 3012th post anyway. It’s more my style. ;-)
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Michael van der Galien wrote a post yesterday entitled, It’s All About Race. Needless to say it’s about Obama’s overwhelming support among black voters in Tuesday’s contest in Mississippi and why that’s happening.
Let’s take a look at Michael’s argument (note: Mississippi and Louisiana are mixed up here, so read everything in the following as commentary [...]

I wrote about this report yesterday and it inspired a good debate on if we should leave Iraq or not. Alan brought up some good points about maintaining stability in the region, but I remained unconvinced that our continued presence there has demonstrated increased safety for our country. In fact, I think the facts prove [...]

While that headline may be true, I’ll get into why it’s an unfair spin soon enough.
First, Reuters has their dreary spin on a Harris Interactive poll:
Only 22 percent of people responding to the poll said they read blogs regularly, meaning several times a month or more, according to the survey conducted by Harris Interactive. [...]
Despite [...]

I thought I’d point out that the enormously talented Jason will now be posting at Donklephant from time to time.
He’s the founder of Militant Moderates, an assistant editor at PoliGazette and one of the best debaters I’ve ever heard on a podcast.
So this is a challenge for you commenters…try backing this guy into a [...]

Our hosting service had problems for about an hour. My apologies, but we’re back up and hopefully this won’t happen again any time soon.
Oh yeah, and Hillary won the Texas popular vote, but may not end up netting any delegates at all tonight if Obama does as well as advertised in the Texas caucuses.
More [...]

The benefits of running a blog? I can post stuff like this…

Okay, who wants to make a predator made out of popsicle sticks?
UPDATE:
I can’t believe I didn’t think of the obvious Balloon Juice jokes.
John Cole will not be pleased.

We had another great month in February, and now with the addition of Alan Stewart Carl as a full time blogger, I think Donklephant is on a great path heading into one of most exciting elections we’ve seen in years.
Thank you again for reading, commenting and keeping the site an exciting place to visit everyday. [...]

By now, most of you are familiar with me and my writings. Hopefully you enjoy reading what I have to say because you’ll be seeing a lot more of my words at Donklephant. Justin has kindly asked me to be a more permanent part of this website and provide my daily opinions on the most [...]

That’s right. Ed Morrissey is closing down Captain’s Quarters in favor of blogging at Michelle Malkin’s Hot Air.
Jeezus H…
From CQ:
Michelle and I have different voices, and sometimes different points of view. Rest assured that Michelle respects these differences and wants them as part of Hot Air. My writing and my viewpoints will continue, and [...]

Josh Marshall and crew run one of the best blogs on the internets, and kudos to everybody over there for recently winning a Polk.
From NY Times:
Of the many landmarks along a journalist’s career, two are among those that stand out: winning an award and making the government back down. Last week, Joshua Micah Marshall achieved [...]

(h/t: Politico)

If you’ve ever seen NOW with David Brancaccio and Maria Hinojosa, you’ll know they always do fascinating, in-depth reporting about the American experience and beyond. Their coverage of the 2008 election has been no different.
Now they have a page up over at pbs.org called the Democracy Toolkit. It’s basically a bunch of links that voters [...]

As always, Michael Totten gives us some of the personal and honest coverage around…
FALLUJAH – The United States military plans to formally hand over Anbar Province to the Iraqis this spring because the insurgency truly is finished in that part of the country. Most Americans have heard about the success in this province by now, [...]

I was tagged by Pat over at Stubborn Facts.
Here’s the game…

Pick up the nearest book ( of at least 123 pages).
Open the book to page 123.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the next three sentences.
Tag five people.

Right now I’m reading Marketing to Moviegoers: A Handbook of Strategies Used by Major Studios and Independents.. Here’s my meme…

Activision alleged [...]

A snarky response to an earnest question:
I’m not sure whether I should feel flattered or annoyed with all the attention Justin Gardner of Donklephant has given me recently. Donklephant turning into Michael Van Der Galiën Watch? It’s great that Justin has moved from Ron Paul to Barack Obama - good decision - but it’s getting [...]

If you’ve been following my discussion with Michael about Obama and Hillary, then you’re all caught up. If not, you can click here and here.
Initially we were talking about identity politics, but the discussion quickly moved onto the experience issue and what being “moderate” means. Basically, I’ve been taking Michael to task for railing Obama [...]

I was just over at Joe’s place and found this (comment, arrow and circle are mine)…

Just to be clear, Google ads are ALL automated so bloggers have nothing to do with this content showing up on their site. However, they can filter out the URL in question so ads from that URL don’t show up [...]

(UPDATED and pushed to the top because of a response I gave to Michael’s counterpost.)
Why is Michael van der Galien buying into Taylor Marsh’s dissection of a video where Obama uses some lingo made famous by Malcolm X?
First, here’s the video…

Then, Marsh’s question after the video…
But why isn’t Barack Obama’s speech, which he touts on [...]

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