Unca Darrell

SEPTEMBER 30 / $10,000

THAT'S WHAT it'll cost to sponsor a Captain's Chair at the Harris County Democratic Party's Johnson-Rayburn-Richards Dinner at the Hilton Americas on October 17.

SEPTEMBER 29 / Nicking Anderson

I'VE REFERRED to Chronicle cartoonist Nick Anderson as a by-the-numbers liberal, but he's not. I was wrong, certainly about the by-the-numbers part. He's . . .

SEPTEMBER 29 / Another grand social experiment

TO THE GROWING list of perverse social experiments, add this:

SEPTEMBER 28 / Dishonesty or incompetence?

I REPORT; you decide.

SEPTEMBER 28 / We got some exclaimin' to do!

PERHAPS on the theory that if argument won't work, shoutin' will, Chronicle editors are pumpin' up the volume!

SEPTEMBER 28 / "His ceaseless attempts to portray himself as America's philosopher-king"

PETER WEHNER reviews the president's repetition of "same tired arguments and worn ideas" and variants, and concludes:

SEPTEMBER 27 / Verses of the day

THE IDOLS of the nations are silver and gold, made by the hands of men. They have mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but they cannot see; they have ears, but cannot hear, nor is there breath in their mouths. Those who make them will be like them, and so will all who trust in them. (Psalm 135:15-18)

SEPTEMBER 26 / "The most extravagent excursion into self-worship we have yet seen in an American leader"

DURING LAST YEAR's campaign, Michelle Obama and her defenders insisted that her phrase "For the first time in my adult life I'm proud of my country" (for supporting her husband) was unfairly wrenched from its context. Maybe, though she said it more than once. But President Obama's indictment of the U.S. before the U.N. suggests . . .

SEPTEMBER 25 / Without comment

GROUP of Eight major powers will give Iran until September to accept negotiations over its nuclear ambitions or else face tougher sanctions, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Wednesday.

SEPTEMBER 25 / Civilization addresses barbarism

Have you no shame? Have you no decency?

Yesterday, the man who calls the Holocaust a lie spoke from this podium.