Current protein wisdom administrator: Ya think? From CBS News: CBSNews.com: Your former colleague Howard Wolfson argued that you all unintentionally paved the way for Palin by exposing some of the unfair media coverage that Hillary Clinton received. And, therefore, a lot of the media may now be treating Sarah Palin with kid gloves. Do you agree with that? Mark Penn: Well, no, I think the people themselves saw unfair media

Darleen on the return of the plumbers. Interesting idea from the Dems, I must say: run a campaign based on the platform of a McGovern, but use the tactics of a Nixon. If only Hunter Thompson were around to tell us how to feel about all this… **** update: Steve Diamond calls the story “fanciful.” (h/t Sdferr) Darleen responds.

We all now know (well, with the exception of Matt Damon and a handful of diehards at Dkos) that the Sarah Palin “banned books” list being circulated is an internet hoax, with several of the titles on that list published after Governor Palin attempted to run roughshod over the Constitution. Still, Palin has to answer for the actual record of book banning in Wasilla; and as conservatives, we shouldn’t be