Drudge has the transcript of Obama’s speech in Berlin.
I’ve never heard a major political speech of this scope that had the term “herding goats” in it… especially by the third paragraph.
As I expected, there were a few “blame America” euro-suckups. Here’s just one toward the end of the speech:
I know my country has not perfected [...]

To those who believe that a philosopher named Jesus once walked the earth and was a great moral teacher, but who nevertheless wasn’t the Son of God, C.S. Lewis proposed a trilemma called “Lord, liar or lunatic.”
The challenge was simply this: If Jesus was not the son of God, then taking into account the claims [...]

As hundreds of mainstream media journalists and talking heads trail Barack Obama as he plays make-believe president overseas, John McCain has been attempting to draw attention to his lonely campaign.
Some have suggested that McCain announce his choice for Vice President this week to attempt to overshadow Obama, but it looks like McCain is getting [...]

For months we knew that, given the two finalists for the Democrat’s presidential nomination, members of that party had a heart-wrenching decision to make: “Am I racist, or sexist?”
Katie Couric isn’t happy with the choice Democrats made, and the fact that she and Hillary Clinton are filthy rich and are now filling roles in careers [...]

As her husband strips the American flag off his plane so he doesn’t have to be ashamed of the country he’s from during his trip to the Middle East, Michelle Obama spoke to some people at a fundraiser in Colorado and and said some perplexing things:
[Michelle] Obama rattled off a list of areas where she [...]

Last week, Al Gore issued a “ten year challenge” that politicians and assorted megalomaniacs like to throw around ever since JFK got us to the moon with one.
In today’s column, I issue my own ten year challenge and comment a bit about Gore’s recent tactics, as well as offer up a bit of eco-poetry. Eat [...]

If you want to see how you compare to the general population on some fairly general questions concerning world issues, take the Pew Research Center’s short quiz.
I’m still kicking myself over one I missed. Here’s how I fared:
You correctly answered 11 out of the 12 possible questions, which means you did better on the [...]

Here are a few things I either didn’t have time to comment on during the week, or that didn’t quite warrant a separate post…
–Associated Press: An American Airlines flight from Boston to Los Angeles was diverted to Oklahoma City on Friday after a passenger stripped nude and later tried to open an emergency exit door [...]

Have you ever been listening to Al Gore and said to yourself, “I wish I had something I could carry all this bullshit in!” Well, wish no more!
It’s the new “What Would Al Gore Do?” environmentally-friendly shopping bag:

Zombie spotted one at a natural foods store (duh) in San Francisco.
Buy one and let everybody know [...]

From the “So ya really wanna be president, eh?” file we find this: Drudge has an item about “security fears” for Obama’s trip through the Middle East. One stop has been cancelled:
“I would prefer if he did not make the trip to Ramallah,” a concerned government official explained Thursday night from Washington. “And he must [...]

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