• “Currently pregnant with the next generation, let me just say this: There is no greater wish that a mother can have for her daughter than that she will exploit poor people, obliterate Iran, and win rigged class president elections, Putin-style. (Mom, I won 100 percent of the vote!)” [VV] • “I thought after the [...]

I’ve seen various attempts to discount the astounding 75K turnout for Obama in Portland last week, but none have the charming daffiness of this one, from rightwingy Newsbusters. It’s main thesis? Obama didn’t draw that huge crowd, indie darling gothic twee rockers The Decemberists did. Of course! Why, that band has filled concert venues with [...]

From the National Review’s campaign news wrap-up feature:

It’s true, the best and most important blogging is often done by people who are not paid to do it: In 2004, [Jane Novak] started her blog, www.armiesofliberation.com, adorned with a Stars and Stripes logo, and soon wrote an article defending Mr. Khaiwani, who was in prison. He wrote her a letter of thanks, addressing [...]

Clinton: “Ted Kennedy’s courage and resolve are unmatched, and they have made him one of the greatest legislators in Senate history. Our thoughts are with him and Vicki and we are praying for a quick and full recovery.” McCain: “Our thoughts and prayers go out to Senator Kennedy and his family. We hope and pray [...]

Of George Huntington Hartford II, remembered today in the New York Times as the heir to the A & P empire, who lost an estimated $80 million of his $90 million fortune over his lifetime, who described himself as “Horatio Alger in reverse,” who built one of New York’s most oddly distinguished buildings at Columbus [...]

The news about Senator Kennedy is indeed a shock, and it is hard to overstate how much it has shaken the capital. If a lawmaker is to be measured by the sheer volume of his legislative accomplishments, then Senator Kennedy has been, hands down, the most important Senator of the past half-century–a case that Adam [...]

I’ve had friends who have survived malignant brain tumors and we can only hope for the best. I’ve known the guy my whole adult life and it was wonderful to watch him, over the past ten years, find peace–and the utter freedom to speak his mind–in his public life and true love with Vicky at [...]

Miami Here’s the youtube link to my questioning of McCain about Ahmadinejad yesterday. Once again, before a Latino audience today in Miami, McCain used his standard line about Ahmadinejad as the leader of Iran and added, “What are they [Obama and Ahmadinejad] going to talk about, the destruction of Israel?” That got a laugh. I’ll [...]