Constituent Says Corruption ‘Regular Practice’ in Charlie Rangel’s District

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Not like there’s any risk he could be voted out of office:

The charges against the 80-year-old Democrat include allegations he traded favors for donations to a program he founded at City College of New York, improperly obtained a rent- stabilized apartment and failed to report income from a Caribbean vacation home.
“In Harlem, he’s not going to be judged on that; that’s a regular practice here,” said Jack Broughton, 38, as he sold T- shirts from a sidewalk table on 125th Street.
Voters will remember how Rangel helped them, Broughton said. “My sister was facing eviction with three kids, and his office made one phone call and got her a place she’s been living at for 15 years,” he said.

The spirit of Tammany Hall lives on.

SHOCKING: W. Va. Man Impregnates 11-Year-Old Girl to Whom He’s Not Related

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The state that made Robert Byrd the longest-serving senator in U.S. history is back in the news:

A St. Albans man accused of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl and impregnating her was in court for a preliminary hearing Friday.
Investigators say the alleged incident happened back in May at Michael Lacy’s apartment. The 11-year-old victim was friends with Lacy’s daughter and spent the night there frequently.
“She indicated she had stayed all night at Michael Lacy’s residence and, at that time, she had intercourse with him,” Kanawha County Sheriff’s Detective Sean Snuffer said. “She stated she had not had sexual intercourse with anybody other than Michael Lacy.”

OK, if you think that’s unbearably disgusting, wait until you hear the accused hillbilly’s defense:

Lacy says he didn’t intentionally sexually assault the girl. He told deputies that it was a case of mistaken identity.
“He stated he woke up with someone kissing his neck while he was lying on the couch. He says he thought it was his wife because his wife often did that to him,” Kanawha County Sheriff’s Cpl. J.M. Launi said. “He admitted to kissing her neck and doing some kind of act. He could not confirm or deny actually having sex with her. He couldn’t remember.”
Lacy blames that memory loss on the fact that he had taken Xanax and Lortab that night. He claims that he was groggy and in and out of sleep.
Launi says that soon after the alleged assault, Lacy realized that it was the girl instead of his wife.
“They both came to the conclusion that they would not tell her parents about it unless she in fact became pregnant,” said Launi.

This kind of thing happens all the time in West Virginia. It’s gotten so bad a hillbilly can’t take some prescription painkillers and get a good night’s sleep without being attacked by these fifth-grade strumpets. This man is a victim, your honor!

Michael Lacy’s arrest could make him unavailable to vote Democrat in November, which may explain why Joe Manchin is no longer considered a shoo-in for Senate.

(Hat-tip: Dan Collins on Twitter.)

UPDATE: Michael Wayne Edwards Jr. was arrested in Maryland, where perversion is somewhat more . . . sophisticated.

What’s Dave Weigel Up To?

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His first article at Slate has a bizarre and complex subject: Democrats are telling him (evidently in all seriousness) that they are afraid Republicans will use the scandals of Maxine Waters and Charles Rangel as a latter-day “Willie Horton” gambit.

Really? I mean, really? If we are to take Weigel’s Democratic sources at face value, they evidently have been shouting “raaaaacist” at Republicans so long that they’ve actually begun to believe it.

Alternative hypothesis: Weigel’s sources are trying to inoculate Democrats against any possible GOP employment of these two glaring ethics cases in campaign ads by preemptively declaring that such ads would constitute evidence of Republican racism.

Either way, it’s interesting, although I don’t think it’s the kind of reporting Weigel does best. He did, however, get in some quotes from a couple of friends:

Ladd Ehlinger Jr., an Alabama political consultant who produced larger-than-life spots for Republican candidates like Dale Peterson and Rick Barber this year, laughs uncontrollably when told that Democrats are even talking about this. “I have advice for Republicans who are too weak-kneed to make hay out of Rangel,” he says. “If anyone starts coming at you about Rangel or any of this stuff, just [say] this is post-racial America. This isn’t about race. It’s about a fat guy lying out in the sun on a beach and not paying his taxes.” . . .
“This is the cry wolf syndrome,” says Breitbart, who will appear at a Republican National Committee fundraiser later this year. “The battle against legitimate racism, which does in fact exist, is suffering from cry wolf syndrome, Mike Nifong syndrome, Spencer Ackerman syndrome.”

Read the rest.

Just Another Deadline

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“It’s not at all good when your cancer is ‘palpable’ from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn’t even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in. . . . The word ‘metastasized’ was the one in the report that first caught my eye, and ear. The alien had colonized a bit of my lung as well as quite a bit of my lymph node. And its original base of operations was located — had been located for quite some time — in my esophagus. My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a ‘race’ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist. . . . To the dumb question ‘Why me?’ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: Why not?”
— Christopher Hitchens, in Vanity Fair

Dear Michelle Malkin

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Guess who’s coming to Colorado?

DENVER (AP) — Arizona Sen. John McCain is headed to Colorado this weekend to campaign for Republican Senate candidate Jane Norton.
A spokeswoman for Norton says McCain will be in Grand Junction and the Denver suburbs Sunday for fundraisers and public rallies for Norton.

Gee, Mrs. Malkin, we know how much you love that Maverick and his Establishment Republican friends:

In Colorado, McCain and his meddlers infuriated the state party by anointing former lieutenant governor Jane Norton to challenge endangered Democrat Sen. Michael Bennet. She’s a milquetoast public official who has served on a lot of task forces and GOP clubs – and who happens to be the sister-in-law of big Beltway insider Charlie Black. . . .
The mini-McCain of Colorado claims to oppose “special interests,” but has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars from D.C. lobbyists at McCain’s behest – stifling the candidacy of strong conservative rivals led by grass-roots-supported Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck, an amnesty opponent whose aggressive illegal immigration prosecutions have earned him the rage of the far Left and big business Right.

So I’m sure you’ll want to roll out the red carpet for Senator Shamnesty when he visits Colorado, Mrs. Malkin.

Perhaps you should organize some sort of informal reception for your distinguished guest. Perhaps — oh, I don’t know — something like a Sunday Tea Party?

KEN BUCK for U.S. SENATE

Christianity In The News

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by Smitty

There has been an uptick in the amount of stories about Christianity of late, but it’s probably James Clark’s utterly weird “Why Marijuana Decriminalization Should Be a Christian Issue” that is the proximal source of ire driving this post, which argues that James Clark is making a questionable moral argument in an ethical context.

Outline:
Definitions
Christianity
Units of Analysis
A Mis-application
Concluding. . . Continue reading Christianity In The News →

Sissypuss: Gov’t Cheese Not Selling In MO

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by Smitty

Down at the bottom of the page (h/t Gateway Pundit) it looks like nearly three to one in favor of Prop C:

The Missouri Health Care Freedom, Proposition C is on the August 3, 2010 statewide ballot in Missouri as an legislatively-referred state statute. The proposed measure aims to block the federal government from requiring people to buy health insurance and bans punishment for those without health insurance.


Sissypuss: I blame the Velveeta Underground for this outrage.

World’s Most Dubious Storybook Romance Turns Out to Be Fiction

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C’mon, did you really buy into the Bristol Palin-Levi Johnston reunion? Ricky Hollywood is far too deeply in love with himself to permit anyone else to intrude.

In fact, as a pathological narcissist, Levi is incapable of recognizing other people as fully human. They are merely objects which have no purpose for existence other than as means of his own gratification.