Title: “George Washington’s Sacred Fire”

Author: Peter A. Lillback, President of the Westminster Theological Seminary

Rank: 1

Blurb: “Dr. Lillback paints a picture of a man, who, faced with unprecedented challenges and circumstances, ultimately drew upon his persistent qualities of character — honesty, justice, equity, perseverence, piety, forgiveness, humility, and servant leadership, to become one of the most revered figures in world history.”

Review: Buckle up…

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“[Nevada] election officials on Friday added chicken suits to the list of banned items after weeks of ridicule directed at Republican Senate candidate Sue Lowden… Under the new rule, chicken costumes will be banned along with political buttons, shirts, hats and signs within 100 feet of polling places.” [AP/MSNBC, via PourMeCoffee]

We’re having a hard time telling the difference between blind faith in private property and blind faith in free markets. Especially since both have proven apocalyptically disastrous.

Defending Rand Paul, Part II [Dave Weigel/WaPo]

In 2008 when his father Ron was running for the GOP nomination for President, Rand(al) Paul went campaigning for dear old dad in Montana, where he expounded upon his fear that there was a conspiracy to create a shared currency of an “Amero” for all of North America, as well as a “NAFTA Superhighway” that would connect Mexico, the U.S., and Canada and destroy our national identity.

There is no NAFTA Superhighway, but the conspiracy theory is widely shared by nationalist wingnuts. Newsweek described the conspiracy theory as “a strange stew of fact and fiction, fired by paranoia” popularized by Jerome Corsi, the man who led the Swift Boat attacks on John Kerry in 2004.

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Thirty years ago today, The Empire Strikes Back opened, and the world was blissfully unaware of Ewoks.

Earlier this week in West Allis, Wisconsin, a bartender wrapped a noose of duct tape around the neck of a Barack Obama effigy and set it on fire to the loud cheers of the bar patrons.

Naturally, someone videotaped what happened, the local police got involved, and the cops contacted the Secret Service, as they investigate all threats made against the President.  The Secret Service ended their investigation, but West Allis authorities are still determining if burning the effigy violates the town’s fire code.

Do you think this bar would serve blacks if the Civil Rights Act of 1964 didn’t exist?

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Lest this gets buried in another thread, let’s call up SFL’s tip for everyone’s amusement. Serial shoe-ingester Rand Paul provided another live demonstration of his foot-consuming prowess on ABC this morning, telling The Littlest Clintonista that preventable industrial catastrophes are just God’s way of making life more interesting:

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