Newsweek has published the details of a new poll examining white, anti-Black resentment. According to Newsweek,

...participants were asked to answer questions on a variety of race-related topics including racial preferences, interracial marriage, attitudes toward social welfare and general attitudes toward African-Americans. Respondents were grouped according to their answers on a "Racial Resentment Index".

The article reporting the poll findings goes on to suggest that these poll results may pose problems for Obama in November, but, more importantly, that Obama's candidacy has greatly increased the degree to which Americans now believe the country is 'ready' for an African-American president:

In 2000, only 37 percent of voters thought the country was ready for a black president. Now, 70 percent of voters think a black candidate like Obama could win the White House.

Oh.

My.

God.

Fox News clip:

This is....disturbing to say the least. Hat tips to crooks-and-liars and Digby

From Fox News

In 1998, David Huckabee was among two boys fired from a Boy Scout camp after a stray dog was killed after wandering onto camp property. David Huckabee, 17 at the time, said the dog appeared ill; no charges were filed. The elder Huckabee said then that politics was behind the dog-killing accusation.

But, as Digby digs up, there is more to this story than a simple 'dog killing'....

My previous diary on Ron Paul pointed out that recent campaign finance disclosures indicated that the Texas Congressman had more cash on hand at present than the tanking McCain campaign.

Well, more interesting bits of data have been dug up that suggests that, among the GOP candidates, the military overwhelmingly supports the anti-war candidate.    

Via ABC News 'Political Radar'

BC News' George Stephanopoulos Reports: Though often regarded as a longshot candidate for president, Republican Ron Paul tells ABC News that he has an impressive $2.4 million in cash on hand after raising an equal amount during the second quarter, putting him ahead of one-time Republican frontrunner John McCain, who reported this week he has only $2 million in the bank.

Christopher Hitchens...love him or hate him, it's a sight to behold him take down someone he absolutely despises.

A gentleman by the name of Don Larsen, District 65 Chairman of the Utah Republican Party has apparently submitted an anti-illegal immigration resolution at the recent state party convention entitled, I shit you not:

Resolution opposing Satan’s plan to destroy the U.S. by stealth invasion

The full resolution is below. What the fuck is wrong with people like this? How the fuck do they get elected? Who, exactly, are the fucking retards who elect people like this?

Story Source:
http://kutv.com/...

Those Kossacks who keep tabs on Andrew Sullivan will not doubt have seen his recent post the US attorney general scandal and, of course, his ongoing confrontation with Bush conservatives over torture. However, Sully has finally gone all the way in his analysis of the Bush administration. He is now, for all intents and purposes, one of us now. Money quote:

Former chief of the CIA's Europe division, Tyler Drumheller, tells Der Spiegal magazine (http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,462782,00.html) that the White House simply ignored CIA warnings that 'Curveball' was not to be trusted. Not news as such, but just another reminder of the lies that have led to the death of countless Iraqis and nearly 3,100 American service members.

Bill O'Reilly is trully a monster. Check out this great catch by the folks at Media Matters for America.

Sully spells it out:

The moral cost of withdrawal is huge. We should do all we can to provide amnesty for any Iraqis who have been loyal to us. (It does not surprise me that we shamefully haven't. This is the Bush administration.) But the moral cost of plowing on is also exponential. It may merely delay the day of reckoning. It risks sending young Americans to die in order for a president to save face, not in order to win. The truth is: we have lost this battle, if not the war. I am still inclined to believe such a loss was avoidable. The amazing restraint of the Shia for so long, and the enthusiasm for elections, revealed the potential in Iraq for a breakthrough. But this president threw it away. There is no getting around this, I'm afraid. It is reality. And if we do not get out by June, I fear an even worse one.

My diary yesterday regarding the outing of Republican Senator Larry Craig by gay activist Mike Rogers simply exploded my mind. It swiftly shot onto the reccommended list and, at last count, some 966 comments had been posted.

First, the details. Craig is alleged to have had sex with men in Union Station in DC, and Rogers claims his sources are the men who had sex with Craig. How credible is Rogers? At the moment very. He was well ahead of the Foley scandal, and he has identified other Republican closet cases such as Ken Mehlman and Davied Drier along with other GOP apparatchiks at the staff level including, amazingly enough, a staffer of Rick, man-on-dog, Santorum. You can check this all out at Rogers' blog.

Mike Rogers, the famous (or infamous) gay activist who outs closeted Republican homosexuals, is reporting that on Ed Schultz RIGHT NOW that Sen. Larry Craig of Idaho is homosexual. Says he is prepared for 'legal' consequences. Rogers has reported on Drier, Shrock, and Foley, never been proven wrong. Reporting he will go to jail to protect sources, and also reporting that he has received NO RESPONSE from Craig's office. Says his sources are men Craig has had sex with.

Rogers homepage: http://www.blogactive.com/

Rogers notes he will put up video

Up on Google Video is the BBC documentary God's Next Army - a film about the homeschool movement's finishing school known as Patrick Henry College.

From his blog:

 

One of these accounts if from the Soviet Union. Two are accounts of US interrogation techniques. Can you identify which is which?

The New York Times is reporting:

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- In a sudden blow to the nation's oil supply, half the production on Alaska's North Slope was being shut down Sunday after BP Exploration Alaska, Inc. discovered severe corrosion in a Prudhoe Bay oil transit line.

Kudos to Sully for picking up on this: http://www.youtube.com/...

Is this Fox News? Can my eyes and ears be lying to me?