Wonkette receives lots of tips from crazy old cranks who want us to know that the Clintons were mean to their Secret Service detail, and the Likud plotted with China to cover up Nixon’s assassination. So it’s refreshing to get a relatively straightforward email like the one we got this morning, titled “A Black Reporter’s Assessment Of Obama.” But you’ll never guess who this “black reporter” is! MORE »

According to a new memoir by Kathleen Willey, an ex-White House aide who claimed President Clinton groped her in 1993 (as if she didn’t know what she was getting into working there!), Hillary Clinton may have ordered some thugs to kill her pwecious kitty in an attempt to intimidate her from speaking out. And then they might have killed her replacement kitty, too! MORE »

The New York Sun proves today that it is demonstrably crazier than any paper DC has to offer — man up, Wash Times — with one brilliant, utterly insane house editorial. The topic, as it will be in every editorial you read for the next 18 months, is the 2008 presidential race. Their exciting and bold idea? MORE »

Combine the sputtering impotent rage of Michelle Malkin’s husband with the dementia-tinged Logic Wormholes of Peggy Noonan and you might get something like Alicia Colon, the angriest super-patriot in all of Staten Island and the New York Sun’s award-winning humorist. Today, she takes another liberal left-wing Main Stream Media liar to her own personal Abu Ghraib. Get ready to suffer for your lies, Matt Drudge! MORE »

Slow news day so far — CNN is reporting on the prosecution of a German cannibal. So we bring you these two screen caps. This one’s from the New York Sun: MORE »

Whoa. One enduring lesson of the devastation that was Katrina: When you want to take stock of a soul-testing national crisis, New York media is pretty much the LAST place you want to turn. Here is the New York Sun’s Pia Catton, on the eve of the Big Apple’s Fashion Week, mulling the pesky fashion dilemmas posed by thousands upon thousands of homeless and dead poor people: MORE »

Remember last week? Our most important concerns were Cindy Sheehan, Bush’s approval rating and the MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF EVAN COHEN, co-founder of Air America and the nefarious principle in an elaborate scheme to defraud a children’s charity in the name of liberal radio badness. The former board member’s absence — reported rather ominously in the NY Sun — was raised by several blogs as yet another link in a damning chain of evidence against the network (though you’d think the programming would be enough). The shadiness of the situation even prompted Michelle Malkin to offer her services:

That is why I am volunteering to help Al Franken find the swindler and warn others about him. Free of charge. And I’m calling on my always curious, never bored, readers to fill the vacuum of outrage and join me in assisting The Search For Air America’s Swindler.

Curiously, the blogosphere failed to turn up Cohen. Perhaps this is one of those cases where the MSM’s immense resources just outstrip the scrappiness of independent bloggers. After all, big media have investigative funds, access to databases, international bureaus and. . . phones. John Cook, writing for Radar, reports that he spoke to Cohen, who listed in the New York and Hawaiian white pages and whose cell phone number hasn’t changed in two years. However, Cook reports, “David Lombino, the New York Sun reporter who wrote the August 26 story, is missing. By which I mean to say that he did not respond to numerous phone messages and one e-mail request for comment.” MORE »