…So I’ll just leave this as an open thread for election news — and let you all do the linking and “reporting” in the comments while I’m gone. Oh. And a quick reminder why your vote counts: Diana Oughton, Ted Gold, and Terry Robbins could not be reached for comment.

For what it’s worth: Yavelow contacted me and I sent him some relevant materials. When he ran the two books nominally by Barack Obama, the 1995 Dreams From My Father and the 2006 Audacity of Hope, through FictionFixer [software developed by Yavelow, a writer and composer, that “he believes is the most comprehensive linguistics tool for authorship detection”], he concluded, “They were written by different people.” As Yavelow explains, authors

Not that it matters to Democratic legislators, who find it in their best interest to keep the stink on Palin for as long as possible (and for the Greater Good), but here it is, nonetheless: A report by an independent state personnel board has cleared Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin of ethics violations in the firing of her public safety commissioner last summer. Released today, the last day of the presidential

This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, Age of Aquarius… According to the research of compiled state polls by Karl Rove & Co., the hypothetical electoral college numbers suggest an Obama win over the Republican ticket of John McCain and Sarah Palin of 338 electoral votes to 200. Aquarius! Aquarius…! Somewhere, the Fifth Dimension and the Hillside singers are dusting off their ponchos, and Cher is off to

…This time from Ken Silverstein’s 2006 Harper‘s piece on Obama. “Barack Obama Inc.: The birth of a Washington machine”: “My experience in the state legislature is instructive. The first seven years I was there I was in the minority, and I think that I passed maybe ten bills; maybe five of them were substantive. Most of the bills that I did pass were in partnership with Republicans, because that was

So I stopped at a Starbucks this morning on the way back from running some errands and sat down with my double espresso at a stool next to a table full of Obama campaign precinct walkers who were evidently taking a break before resuming their canvass. As luck would have it, these budding community organizers were enjoying biscotti and muffins. Offering them a knowing nod — followed quickly by the

GUILT BY ASSOCIATION! HOW DARE YOU QUESTION OUR ABILITY TO KEEP SHOUTING ‘GUILT BY ASSOCIATION’ AS WE CAN BARELY CONTAIN OUR DESIRE TO RUB YOUR FACE IN HOW WE’VE GONE ABOUT HOODWINKING YOU WITH ALL OUR CAREFULLY CONTRIVED TALK OF BEING MODERATE PRAGMATISTS! I wonder if it ever occurs to most Barack voters that the true progressives who have been building this political beast since the early seventies hold them

Thomas Sowell, house negro: Barack Obama has the kind of cocksure confidence that can only be achieved by not achieving anything else. Anyone who has actually had to take responsibility for consequences by running any kind of enterprise– whether economic or academic, or even just managing a sports team– is likely at some point to be chastened by either the setbacks brought on by his own mistakes or by seeing

Stanley Kurtz on the “illusion of pragmatism” — something you’ve read here from time to time to time: Reflecting on all that I’ve written about Barack Obama over these past six months, four inter-related points stand out: Obama’s radicalism, his stealthy incrementalism, his interest in funding and organization-building, and his willingness to use — or quietly support — Alinskyite intimidation tactics. Since we stand on the cusp of the election,