The party never ends at National Review; it just gets less viable over time.

MC Byron York busts out the following remix, sampling various tunes from 2004's Now That's What I Call Bullshit Volume 27:

It's common to see mentions in the press these days about some "swiftboating" of Barack Obama that is allegedly in the works, or might someday allegedly be in the works, or might someday be thought to be allegedly in the works.

Ha. Ha. Ha. Silly press. Seriously, who gets "Swiftboated" in a U.S. presidential election? This hasn't happened to a single presidential candidate since 2004.

Senatus Populusque Americus:

Check out this Red State post entitled, "Where is Laura Ingraham?":

It should not go unnoticed that one of the nation's most popular radio hosts is off the air.

What happened? No one is talking. What I do know is that Laura wants to be back on the air. She does not want to be off the air.

What I'm getting from this is that Laura wants to be back on the air, and that, in addition, she does not want to be off the air. I get the same vibe from what Laura Ingraham said herself recently while in the course of not "talking":

The decision to remove the 'Laura Ingraham Show' from the airwaves was made unilaterally by Talk Radio Network as a tactic in contract negotiations, against my will and over my protest.

... she said, without "talking," communicating not so much through herself or her own organism, but rather through the wind as it rustles through the tall grass, through the crinkling eyes of a lover as she gazes on her beloved, and through the very caterpillars themselves.

Senatus Populusque Americus:

Today's Supreme Court ruling to the effect that men and teenagers who find themselves plucked out of one country on suspicion of shooting at members of an invading army only to be flown across the planet and imprisoned indefinitely  without charges get to have access to some of the same legal rights that Anglic civilization has extended to even murderers and rapists for 1000 years has really pissed off the sort of people who ought to never have been allowed to participate in Anglic civilization in the first place, which is, of course, good for Anglic civilization, and thus cancels out the disappointment I experienced recently upon learning that my Grand Theft Auto IV girlfriend Michelle is actually a federal agent. I'm sorry if I spoiled anything for you, but the truth is the truth.

Now, let's take a sampling of the butthurt buffet.

In October of 2006, the wonderfully-named Family Research Council held a televised event entitled Liberty Sunday which, although vague in its billing, was supposed to have something to do with homosexuality, and which was consequently expected to draw some high level of attention. As FRC President Tony Perkins put it, with characteristic exactitude, "We've got thousands, literally millions of people with us tonight."

    Those thousands, literally millions of people were first treated to a suitably campy video-and-voice-over presentation in which Mr. Perkins waxed nostalgic on the virtues of John Winthrop, the original governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony and an apparently fond subject of the Christian dominionist imagination. Perkins quoted Winthrop as having warned his fellow Puritans that "the eyes of all the people are upon us so that if we deal falsely with our God in this work, we shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world." Winthrop's prescience is truly stunning; the early Puritan colony of Salem did indeed become a "byword" for several things.

Occasionally, a book is best reviewed more than a decade after it's been written. William Bennett's The De-Valuing of America, published in the otherwise uneventful year of 1992,  is such a book.

    To judge from the dust jacket review blurbs, Bennett's first foray into the literary genre of the ex-politico memoir - traditionally a haphazard mash-up of policy suggestions, political narrative, and personal musings - appears to have been a well-received one. Rush Limbaugh calls the book "inspiring." Beverly LaHaye, president of Concerned Women for America (and, tellingly, wife of Tim LaHaye, brainchild of the Left Behind empire) gushes that "[h]is keen strategies help equip all of us involved in the accelerated warfare for the very heart and soul of America's children." And the Wall Street Journal refers to Bennett as "Washington's most interesting public figure," apparently intending this as a compliment.

    But praise from allies is like a mother's love. More surprising is the dust jacket quote from The New York Times, of all things, informing us that Bennett "brings refreshing intelligence and common sense to a debate long dominated by ignorance and confusion." This strikes me as a nice way of saying that Bennett is better educated than most of the people who believe the things that he believes.

The new Republican governor of Louisiana is, one must admit, very impressive in some respects, being not only a young man with obvious intellectual gifts in the practical sphere (if not the theoretical one), but also that rare breed of modern Republican who actually wants to fix a couple of those things which everyone agrees ought to be fixed - Louisiana, for instance. Moreover, he's being seriously considered by McCain as a possible running mate, and is in fact meeting with the Maverick at his Maverick Straight Talk Honesty Ranch on this very day.

This is all well and good, but it does not change the fact that Bobby Jindal also believes that demons regularly possess Christians for presumably nefarious purposes, and that in such cases, the only cure is a prompt and well-attended exorcism.

Conservative blog maven John Hawkins acknowledges today that Barack Obama has actual policies. There's a catch, of course:

He most certainly does have [an agenda], but it's just an agenda that he tries to avoid talking about because the better Americans get to know him, the less appealing he's going to be.

In order to prove his assertion that Obama does not want to talk about his agenda, Hawkins spends the rest of his column quoting Obama talking about his agenda. Fair enough.

Conservative columnist Dennis Prager has five questions about the most recent college shooting incident. Most of these appear to be trick questions.