Our guest columnist is a frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter, speaking in 2008 on a subject he disdains today.

This is not a political war at all. This is not a cultural war. This is a spiritual war. And the Father of Lies has his sights on what you would think the Father of Lies — Satan — would have his sights on: a good, decent, powerful, influential country — the United States of America.

If you were Satan, who would you attack in this day and age? There is no one else to go after, other than the United States, and that’s been the case for now almost two hundred years, once America’s preeminence was sown by our great Founding Fathers.

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“Thousands of atheists are expected to attend the Reason Rally next month in Washington, D.C., an event that organizers hope will unify a large part of the secular community. On March 24, the National Mall will be populated by those who sympathize with atheist perspectives.” [CBS DC]

Rick Santorum would like to change the subject: “You know, [reporters] sit there and they say nothing, while for 20 years [President Obama] sits in a church with a guy who is a racist. And somehow or another Foster Friess is now who I am? This is just crap.” [NRO, via TPM]

The world’s oldest surviving film — all 2.11 seconds of it — was shot in 1888.

Within five years, Thomas Edison built the world’s first movie studio.

It took only a year after that to film the world’s first cat video.

[via The Atlantic]

“Mitt Romney and Ron Paul told the Georgia Republican Party, Ohio Republican Party and CNN Thursday that they will not participate in the March 1 Republican presidential primary debate.” The debate has been canceled. [CNN, via TPM]

You’re a veteran network journalist, interviewing Rick Santorum’s Super PAC sugar daddy Foster Freeze Friess live on cable television. And out of the blue, he drops this:

“Back in my days, they used Bayer aspirin for contraceptives. The gals put it between their knees and it wasn’t that costly.”

How do you react? Let’s find out!

[via Political Wire/SFL]

Witnesses at today’s Darrell Issa hearing on contraception, which Issa says is really a hearing on religious freedom.

Democratic Women Boycott House Contraception Hearing After Republicans Prevent Women From Testifying [ThinkProgress]