Undeniable Sign of Media Bias of the Week: The Washington Post once again revealed their liberal mindset in an article about how candidate's families have generally been off limits to the opponent. In the article they site a Barbara Bush comment about Geraldine Ferraro as an exception to the rule. Huh? Geraldine Ferraro wasn't a candidate's wife, she was the candidate. So, either the Post just wanted to make Bar look bad or they revealed how they really feel about female candidates - they will always be only a woman to them. The post, like many liberals and their institutions, talk a lot about equality, but when push comes to shove, they can't seem to really treat women and minorities as equals.

Post of the Week: I really liked John Kerry, Cong Hunter? from Captain's Quarters, but my absolute favorite post this week was "What the President Really Wanted to Say That Night in Florida" from Pardon My English. My favorite part:

Senator Kerry, do you know what I spent my day doing? While you were getting your hair and your nails done? Do you know what I’ve been doing and thinking about while you were covering up your weird orange skin so you didn’t scare the viewers? Do you?

I was all over this state, looking at the unbelievable damage those hurricanes have done to our people and property. I saw people whose houses are destroyed, people who haven’t had electricity in weeks. I saw those kids your witch of a wife thinks should be going naked through the streets of Florida–I still don’t know why she said that or what she meant.

Anyway, I, uh, oh, yeah–I looked at all this devastation, all this destruction, and I came back to the hotel room with my brother, Jeb, and I looked him in the eye. “Jeb,” I said, “I’m the President of the United States, and I can’t even make sure that those people have something to eat tonight. Do you realize that? It kills me to have to leave here and go play footsie with that met-er-o-sexual hack tonight. I just want to smack him around. It’s times like these I almost wish I could have a drink, but I know that wouldn’t even help.”

Asshat of the Week: This was a hotly contested category this week. We had the two morons who pelted Ann Coulter with pies, the Boston police who killed a college girl out celebrating the Red Sox win and the writer for the Guardian who wished for another John Wilkes Booth to assassinate President Bush. But, the winner is an unamed UW-Milwaukee graduate student who spit on Congressional candidate/Iraq veteran Jerry Boyle at a debate Thursday. From an eyewitness:

As Boyle was walking from the stage to the reception, a graduate student from UWM spit on Boyle as he passed by.

Boyle, restraining himself, went to the restroom to clean up let this incident go.

I, however, did not.

After seeing Jerry wipe the spit from his jacket, I asked him what was going on and asked the young man why he spit on him.

Although it was witnessed by several people (at least five) he denied it and approached me looking for a confrontation. He walked up to me and got right in my face.

I asked him why he spit on Jerry and he said he didn't but should have because Jerry didn't answer his question to his satisfaction.

He called me an imperialistic pig and said that I was a puppet for an imperialistic regime. I asked him if that was a new term he had just learned in school and that I was very proud of him for using it in a complete sentence.

To make a long story short, after a little more verbal back and forth, he was ushered away by his teacher and escorted from the building.

Mainstream Media Column of the Week: Mark Steyn's piece in the Chicago Sun Times today is another gem. I especially like his take on "prescription drugs from Canada":

I'm Canadian, so I know a thing or two about prescription drugs from Canada. Specifically speaking, I know they're American; the only thing Canadian about them is the label in French and English. How can politicians from both parties think that Americans can get cheaper drugs simply by outsourcing (as John Kerry would say) their distribution through a Canadian mailing address? U.S. pharmaceutical companies put up with Ottawa's price controls because it's a peripheral market. But, if you attempt to extend the price controls from the peripheral market of 30 million people to the primary market of 300 million people, all that's going to happen is that after approximately a week and a half there aren't going to be any drugs in Canada, cheap or otherwise -- just as the Clinton administration's intervention into the flu-shot market resulted in American companies getting out of the vaccine business entirely.

Amen.

Funniest Thing I Saw This Week: Tim Blair exposed the faces of forgiveness. His "photographic exploration of the pious and peaceful" is absolutely inspired. Compassionate head-tilts to all!