Logan Murphy is excited about the latest gloom from The Guardian. Meanwhile, the US military claims that foreign fighters are leaving Iraq.  Wretchard has his own views.  Who ya gonna believe? 

More views of the Throw Grandma Under the Bus Speech:  Clarissa Pinkola Estes Krauthammer  Peggy Noonan’s Pieta Eyes  Honky Pride t-shirts available (h/t Insty) Hey, baby. You’re not depressed, are you?

At RCP, Jay Cost brings the statistics and the scatterplot to show — as suspected — that Pennsylvania is indeed much like Ohio, and builds a model for both states based on the number of African Americans, how “upscale” white voters are, and the percentage of residents are aged 20-24 in a given county.  The model accounts for 70% of all variation in countywide vote returns in Ohio.   That is pretty darn

There’s a reason Hillary Clinton has remained silent during the flap over intemperate remarks by Barack Obama’s former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. I refer — of course — to Clinton’s desire to avoid media scrutiny of her endorsement of Heather Mills.  The sight of Clinton thanking Mills for her work in organizing the 9/11 concert for the NYC police and firefighters who booed her might be embarassing.  And thanking Mills for her work