Barack Obama delivered a speech today that will be remembered as one of the most inspired discussions of race and religion in America. If you haven’t read it or watched it yet, you really should.

Please join me in lamenting the non-stop media coverage of Reverend Wright’s “God Damn America” sermon, and the hypocrisy of zero-coverage for Rod Parsley’s crazytalk. For those following along at home, please turn to page 1623 in the good book.

An obscure bit of political news, but another example of silly season: Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter takes offense to a memo written by Obama-strategist David Plouffe. Read the memo, however, and you discover that the offending language was nothing more than the suggestion that all states matter, not just Pennsylvania.

Analysis of the Mississippi exit polls shows that the Limbaugh-effect is real: conservative voters are crossing over in large numbers and voting for Hillary Clinton to cause chaos in the Democratic primary.

A week of Hillary Clinton’s campaign employing their “kitchen sink” strategy seems to have had the desired effect, Ohio and Texas (sortof). This post discusses the major attacks of the week: Tony Rezko, NAFTAgate, and senate hearings.

Recently I ran a piece debunking several statements made by Congressman Jack Kingston about Barack Obama. One of the responses came from a certain Bill Gillespie (pictured here business-casual), a recently retired Lieutenant Colonel who is apparently campaigning to replace Kingston as representative of Georgia’s first district.