Welcome to the May 4, 2008 edition of carnival of political punditry.

Current Events

Fred Black presents Have we Forgotten posted at Fred Black: Internet Business Blog..

Greg Laden presents It is OK to be an atheist, as long as you don’t … well, actually, it is NOT OK to be an atheist. In Illinois. posted at Greg Laden’s Blog.

Wenchypoo presents Polygamists or Poly-GAMISTS? posted at Wisdom From Wenchypoo’s Mental Wastebasket.

War on Terror

webmaster presents Jimmy Carter…Please Shut-Up! posted at Truthful Times.

Leticia Velasquez presents Chicago Sun-Times picks up my post on Pope Benedict on a crusade against Islam posted at causa-nostrae-laetitiae.

Loozianajay presents Jimmy Carter well… is being Jimmy Carter posted at The Partisan Report.

Health Care

Jose DeJesus MD presents Does the approval process for medical facilities serve the public interest or stifle competition? posted at Physician Entrepreneur, saying, “Should government encourage competition by encouraging the private sector to develop competitive medical facilities or should it continue to protect existing facilities by discouraging competition?”

Immigration and the Border

NotYourDaddy presents A Free Market Approach to Illegal Immigration posted at Government is not your Daddy., saying, “I applaud the work ethic of anybody who comes here seeking to do honest labor because there isn’t enough work to support their families in their own country. But I do not support amnesty, nor do I welcome with open arms all who wander across the border for whatever reason.”

Environment

Mark Schauss presents Ignoring the Supreme Court Ruling - Bush Administration Flaunts the Law On the Environment posted at Toxic World Blog - Detoxify and Heal Your Body.

Jackson Kern presents Social-Political Sustainability: The Human Element | Sustainable Development and Humanitarian Causes: The Alternative Channel Blog posted at Sustainable Development and Humanitarian Causes: The Alternative Channel Blog, saying, “This article delves into social-political aspects of the sustainability endeavor.”

Wenchypoo presents This Just In: “Green” Careers posted at Wisdom From Wenchypoo’s Mental Wastebasket.

Presidential Candidates and Campaign

The Prudent Babbler presents Clintons Reap what they Sow posted at Prudent Babbling.com, saying, “Bill Clinton is aghast at the fact that New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson endorsed Obama for president. Richardson is only the beginning of the Clintons’ reaping what they’ve sowed. In the coming weeks, the real show will begin when the avalanche of Superdelegates fall behind Obama.”

Loozianajay presents McCain now even with Obama posted at The Partisan Report.

NotYourDaddy presents Obama Understands posted at Government is not your Daddy., saying, “Other, less enlightened, politicians may take these citizens’ concerns at face value and think the problem is that they don’t want to lose their right to own guns, or that they’re concerned about the social and economic impacts of illegal immigration, but Obama knows better. The real problem is that these folks don’t feel like they’re getting enough attention.”

The Prudent Babbler presents Tick… Tick… Tick… Democrats Imploding posted at Prudent Babbling.com, saying, “If these people are the best the Democratic Party has to offer, then it’s in serious trouble.”

The Prudent Babbler presents Hamas’ Hope for Carter & Obama posted at Prudent Babbling.com, saying, “Obama has been non-committal about President Carter’s meeting with Hamas, and has not ruled out talking to terrorists. Improving terrorists’ “street cred” is the only purpose it will serve.”

Madeleine Begun Kane presents Ode To John “Maverick” McCain posted at Mad Kane’s Political Madness.

Mark Schauss presents Another Con Job by the President On Global Warming posted at Toxic World Blog - Detoxify and Heal Your Body.

Mike Kuykendall presents I’m Surrounded by Obama-philes! posted at Mike Kuykendall, saying, “An argument against Obama-mania from a die hard Democrat worried about his party’s prospects in the fall”

Troy Stouffer presents Is Reverend Wright Sabotaging Obama’s Campaign? posted at I’m A Pundit Too, saying, “Is the Reverend Jeremiah Wright purposely sabotaging Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign?”

presents Obama and the Race Issue posted at Confusion and Frustration.

Sammy Benoit presents Barack Obama Was At The Exodus posted at YID With LID.

Madeleine Begun Kane presents Ode To Pious John McCain posted at Mad Kane’s Political Madness.

Mike Kuykendall presents The Spurious Obama “Superdelegate” Argument posted at Mike Kuykendall, saying, “The Obama campaign’s oft-repeated mantra about “overturning the will of the people” is a crock- don’t just take my word for it, take the word of the one of the most grassroots-enabled politicians ever, Chairman Howard Dean…”

Abdul-Rahim presents Part One: What can the Liberal party do for you? posted at Borges Blogue.

Neil Benson presents Political Obfuscation and the Media posted at SENSE AND NONSENSE, saying, “How the media focuses on trivia and controversy and very little of substance in the campaigns instead of the issues confronting this society.”

Economy

billspaced presents Solving Illegal Immigration: US To Buy Mexico posted at Rants ‘n Reviews: Observations from a real conservative OR Rubbing slightly more salt into the wound, saying, “A little tongue-in-cheek (but with some seriousness)”

Gavin R. Putland presents Still on the mountaintop: Economically rational racism posted at /etc/cron.whenever/, saying, “Marking the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s “mountaintop” speech.”

Aisha C. Fowlin presents The Politics Report: The ‘R-session’, Murder and Mayhem on the rise posted at The Ave, saying, “Radicalist view of the recession”

NotYourDaddy presents Poverty Is Increasing — And It’s Our Fault posted at Government is not your Daddy., saying, “The most significant reason the rate of poverty is increasing in our country is because we’ve established a poverty culture, where generation after generation grows up expecting the government to support them.”

Huck Finn presents PutinToon 26 - How Our Money is Sucked Out of the U.S. posted at Putin For President, saying, “Smart-A** Politics for Smart People. Satire and cartoons.”

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