Obama as Manchurian Candidate? Not so fast.

Last Friday, Ann Coulter posed the timeless question:

“Is Obama a Manchurian candidate to normal Americans who love their country? … Or is he being the Manchurian candidate to the traitor wing of the Democratic Party?”

Indeed. I have a question for Coulter: has she seen or read The Manchurian Candidate? The book and movie about a presidential candidate, wartime hero, and POW who was tortured and brainwashed in Southeast Asia? Is this really a place she wants to go?

Ultimate Fighting Jesus

Holy crap:

The aspect of church that men find least appealing is its conception of Jesus. Driscoll put this bluntly in his sermon “Death by Love” at the 2006 Resurgence theology conference (available at TheResurgence.com). According to Driscoll, “real men” avoid the church because it projects a “Richard Simmons, hippie, queer Christ” that “is no one to live for [and] is no one to die for.” Driscoll explains, “Jesus was not a long-haired … effeminate-looking dude”; rather, he had “callused hands and big biceps.” This is the sort of Christ men are drawn to—what Driscoll calls “Ultimate Fighting Jesus.”