Now in convenient timeline format.

From the Weekly Standard: It’s my sad duty to report that our good friend and valued contributor Dean Barnett passed away today. He was a remarkable man–principled, witty, and to all of us, a model of grace and courage. We mourn his passing and cherish his memory. –William Kristol He was only 41.

I’d like to think this piece by the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Jonathan Valania is a kind of “Modest Proposal” for the “post-racial” age. But alas, bits like this leave me believing otherwise: I give you Exhibit A: The last eight years. In 2000, Bush-Cheney stole the election, got us attacked, and then got us into two no-exit wars. Four years later, white people reelected them. Is not the repetition of the

Happyfeet and I both linked this earlier today, but it deserves its own post. Consider this that. From the WSJ, “Justice and Vote Fraud”: We’ve all read a lot about the “politicization” of the Justice Department in recent years, and that political pounding is having an ironic effect. The prosecutors who are supposed to guard against voter fraud don’t seem very interested in running the political risk of doing their

Or, as Obama supporters like to call them, RACIST SMEARS IN THE FORM OF XENOPHOBIC, ANTIESTABLISHMENTARIANIST “HYPOTHETICALS”. This one simple account does so much to unravel Obama’s web of lies about his knowledge of the views of those with whom he routinely associated that it is essential, in the eyes of many in the mainstream press, that it be, if not surpressed, than deemed un-newsworthy. Quite a stretch, that, when

Former White House and Pentagon official Douglas MacKinnon, Baltimore Sun: As the candidates and the chattering class point fingers of blame with regard to the financial meltdown and whose economic plan will be better for “Joe the plumber,” Pakistan – with its nuclear arsenal – is on the verge of implosion. Beyond that, a secret report detailed in a London newspaper this month warned that the terrorist threat facing Britain

From the AP: A Halloween decoration showing a mannequin dressed as vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin hanging by a noose from the roof of a West Hollywood home is drawing giggles from some passers-by and gasps of outrage from others. The mannequin is dressed in brunet wig, glasses and a red business suit. Another mannequin dressed as John McCain emerges from a flaming chimney. Chad Michael Morisette, who lives in

**CHECK BELOW FOR NEW POSTS** As I discussed in the comments of my post on PJTV, the future of the new media has evidently been decided upon by a handful of money men on each side of the political aisle — and protein wisdom, being something of an ideological wild card (and having the audacity to stray, on occasion, from the “proper” presentation of the news), is not part of

Writes Kerr, at Volokh: Based on the audio posted, however, I find it hard to identify Obama’s normative take. When Obama says that he’s “not optimistic” about using the courts for major economic reform, and when he points out the practical and institutional problems of doing so, it’s not entirely clear whether he is (a) gently telling the caller why the courts won’t and shouldn’t do such things; (b) noting

— Which is really not much different in kind, headline-wise, from, say, “Pittsburgh Steelers Playbook Shows Array of Running Plays”. But let’s venture on anyway. From Amanda Carpenter, Townhall: Documents obtained by Townhall show the Democratic Party encouraged party activists to accuse the GOP of intimidating minorities on Election Day even if no evidence of intimidation existed in the 2004 presidential election. The tactic is being used again in 2008,