Title: “Glenn Beck’s Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine”

Author: Glenn Beck

Rank: 3

Blurb: “Glenn Beck revisits Paine’s powerful treatise with one purpose: to galvanize Americans to see past government’s easy solutions, two-part monopoly, and illogical methods and take back our great country.”

Review: “Thomas Paine was a rabble-rousing hellion who punched out many more revolutionary pamphlets than those collected in ‘Common Sense.’ Further, Thomas Paine didn’t survive the George Washington government following the American Revolution and took off for France to fight in the French Revolution in 1792. Paine was a out-and-out lefty and where Glen Beck gets off acquiring Paine to boost his sales is typical of the former CNN commentator, the rat. Reader, beware.”

Customers Also Bought: “Unlikely Mormon: The Conversion Story of Glenn Beck”

Footnote: You didn’t know Glenn sports the magic undies? Neither did we!

Glenn Beck’s Common Sense [Amazon]

Buy or Die [Stinque@Amazon kickback link]

Since the occasional cutaway to Christiane Amanpour isn’t doing it for us, here’s a list of online resources providing continuing coverage and analysis of what certainly feels like a world-historical event, even if it’s happening on a sleepy cable-news weekend.

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Truly a thing of beauty – O’Reilly, flummoxed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDV1jsPlKD8

Mir Hossein Mousavi and his wife, not-Michelle Obama, vote Friday.

So we’re talking about Iran with our neighbor, who has family in the region, and we try out our line about how if you’re going to steal an election, at least make a good show of it.

And then as he expresses his fear about what will happen if so many hopes are dashed, we recall that this week is the twentieth anniversary of Tiananmen — the iconic tank photo was taken June 5.

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[via Roy] The Anchoress

“We would not have toilets if a capitalist had not taken a chance, held his breath and flushed.” — The Anchoress.

[googling]

The ancient cities of the Indus Valley Civilization, e.g., Harappa^[1] and Mohenjo-daro^[2] which are located in present day India & Pakistan had flush toilets attached to a sophisticated sewage system^[3]—and other forms of toilets were used both in the time of the Romans and Egyptians as well.^[4] Although a precursor to the modern flush toilet system was designed in 1596 by John Harington,^[5] the toilet did not enter into widespread use until the late nineteenth century, when it was adopted in English upper class residences.^[6]

More on The Anchoress here.

After the jump, the 54-page DOMA motion to dismiss from the Obama Justice Department. Please note, we cannot be responsible for bashing your head against your monitor.

Obama defends DOMA in federal court. Says banning gay marriage is good for the federal budget. Invokes incest and marrying children. [AmericaBlog]

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Well, it looks like we have a wiener:

SEOUL, South Korea – The youngest son of North Korea’s authoritarian leader has been given the title of “Brilliant Comrade,” a newspaper reported Friday, a sign the communist regime is preparing to name him as successor to the ailing Kim Jong Il.

U.S. and South Korean intelligence authorities disclosed during a meeting this week that 26-year-old Kim Jong Un is now being referred to in the secretive regime as “Yongmyong-han Dongji,” which translates roughly as “Brilliant Comrade,” South Korea’s mass-circulation JoongAng Ilbo newspaper reported.

News hasn’t reached DPRK populace yet.  Damn DTV switchover.