Just when you think you've heard it all, here comes a Saudi Arabian perspective on how to have a good marriage.

Saudi marriage officiant Dr. Ahmad al-Mu’bi told Lebanese television viewers last week that it’s permissible for girls as young as 1 to marry — as long as sex is postponed.

Original article is on Fox.

Democratic Presidential Nominee Barack Obama, a senior lecturer on Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago, does not understand the  Constitution. This is according to Dr. James Dobson, head of Focus on the Family. Dobson, who has a Ph.D. in child development from the University of Southern California, also claims that Obama does not understand the Bible.

As Barack Obama broadens his outreach to evangelical voters, one of the movement's biggest names, James Dobson, accuses the likely Democratic presidential nominee of distorting the Bible and pushing a "fruitcake interpretation" of the Constitution.

Dobson accuses Obama of 'distorting' Bible

Dobson bases his claims on a June 2006 speech by Obama. In that speech, Obama asked whether chapters like Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK while eating shellfish is an abomination, or Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, which "is so radical that it's doubtful that our own Defense Department would survive its application", should guide public policy.

Garry Shay, a Clinton supporter and member of the Democratic National Committee Rules Committee, said this on May 4, 2008:

There’s the fact that Hillary Clinton’s name and the uncommitted slate was the only thing that was on the ballot in Michigan because the Democratic National Committee asked the other candidates to withdraw their names from the ballot. So, here you have the institution itself asking people to pull their names off the ballot.

[Fellow panel member says: "Not the other ones; they asked all of them.]

All of them, yes. That’s what--I don’t know what I just said-But, OK, that’s what I thought I said.

(California Progress Report)

This contradicts the prevailing wisdom from Clinton supporters that Barack Obama decided to remove his name from the Michigan ballot for some sort of political gain or because he just woke up one morning and decided to remove his name as a lark. The article also states (over the jump)

Imagine a Democratic primary candidate who unilaterally presumes to end the primary a month before all votes have been cast and counted. Imagine that this candidate begins campaigning for the general election as though he is the de facto nominee a month before the final primary. Imagine that this candidate has only 78% of the delegates needed to secure the nomination. Imagine that this candidate intends to treat his remaining opponent as if that opponent did not exist.

If you can imagine that, you have just correctly imagined the behavior of former President Bill Clinton in 1992.

Aides to Mr. Clinton say that in most of the remaining primaries he will ignore the former Governor of California, Edmund G. Brown Jr., and will try to give voters a clearer sense of his own personality and his positions on major issues, in preparation for a general election campaign against President Bush.

The states holding primaries in the next three weeks include more than one-fourth of the nation's population. (May 11, 1992. The New York Times)

An article in today's New York Times by Adam Nossiter and Janny Scott analyzes the effect a surge in black voter turnout had on the Mississippi election of Democrat Travis W. Childers in a traditionally Republican district.

Kelvin Buck, a black state representative who helped the Childers campaign, said he saw a "level of enthusiasm and energy" that he had not seen before from black voters — significantly motivated, he said, by a recent Republican anti-Obama campaign.

In the South, a Force to Challange the G.O.P.

Have you noticed the vitriolic rhetoric emanating from supposedly hardcore supporters of Senator Hillary Clinton lately? Their acerbic commentary ranges from "I would never vote for Obama" to "I will vote for McCain in November" to "I will leave the Democrat party." One can excuse such hyperbole from choleric newcomers, those who swerve passionately from fad to fad, from MySpace to Facebook to Bebo, showing fealty to none and faithlessness to many.

As diaried in several excellent entries earlier (for example here and here), Hillary Clinton in a USA Today interview said that "hard-working Americans, white Americans" are a part of her base and that "whites in both states (Indiana and North Carolina) who had not completed college were supporting me." Later in the interview Clinton asserts:

"These are the people you have to win if you're a Democrat in sufficient numbers to actually win the election. Everybody knows that."

Despite the Archaic Media's ongoing pronouncements of doom and gloom for Barack Obama's Presidential campaign, Obama is doing just fine. As many of us are aware, he leads the Democratic primary race in delegates, popular vote, states won, and fundraising. These feats are amazing when you think about it. Senator Obama is not just running against his ostensible Democratic opponent. He is running against the most potent political wolfpack in the history of the United States.

Hillary Clinton's campaign has entered a new phase. It is now officially in pandermonium, a combination of pandering and pandemonium. The Clinton campaign reached pandermonium when it hijacked John McCain's idea of a summer gas tax holiday and added lipstick to that pig's lips with a purported windfall profits tax.

pandermonium (noun) profiting politically from the economic distress of voters during a period of severe economic uncertainty

A Republican presidential aspirant has accused me of being greedy. He claims I am partly to blame for the current recession. According to Senator John McCain (R-AZ), "There has to be a modification of the greedy behavior." Although he doesn't spell out the dire consequences should I fail to reform, I presume my greedy behavior will lead to the financial collapse of the United States.

What makes me greedy in the eyes of St. John?

"Since this whole discussion started over Senator Obama's remarks, Democrats have reached out to me to say that we can't afford for people to believe that the Democratic Party is elitist and out of touch," Clinton told reporters at a news conference in Scranton, Pa.

I was just visiting another blog, one which leans toward Senator Clinton, where a diarist was parsing a recent Quinnipiac University survey that purports to show a "white flight" from Senator Obama amongst Democrats. This is, of course, all one and the same with the recent whispering campaigns such as whites won't elect a black, Jews have a problem with Obama, Alpha Centaurians think Barack is too light-skinned, and other nonsense of that sort. Then it hit me.

At a Pennsylvania press conference, Mrs. Obama said she would have quit the marriage in protest if Mr. Obama had cheated on her. "He would not have been my husband," she said. "He might even be watching Reverand Wright's sermons from the Great Beyond."

According to Senator Hillary Clinton in her interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the reason she has false memories of sniper fire in Bosnia was "I was sleep-deprived, and I misspoke."

I hear that you told Congress today that U.S. high-tech companies like yours are being forced to outsource jobs overseas because of outdated restrictions on H-1B visas. As Chairman of Microsoft Corporation, I presume you are in a position to know such things, and I am willing to accept your statements as factual and unbiased. According to your testimony, our archaic immigration system makes attracting and retaining high-skilled immigrants exceptionally challenging for U.S. firms. In 2007, for example, Microsoft was unable to obtain H-1B visas for one-third of the highly qualified foreign-born job candidates that it wanted to hire.

My name is Ed and I'm a computer nerd. Or a recovering nerd, as I like to say. I don't NEED computers, I just WANT them. I can quit anytime. I think. However, being a nerd does equip me to discern patterns amongst seemingly dissimilar data. For example, show me a list of random customer names and I can write a database program that orders them and highlights any linkages that may exist between them. Show me two political candidates and I can pick out patterns and similarities that might surprise the candidates themselves.

Has anybody but me wondered why there were apparently more photos taken of Britney's puddy tat the night she exited a limo sans underwear than were taken of the disputed powder-keg of a waterway between Iraq and Iran the day Iran was busily capturing 15 British sailors and marines? Is it possible that every single spy satellite operated by the United States, Israel and other advanced countries failed to witness the pentultimate "caught on tape" moment? It seems unlikely.