Fred Thompson on what’s at stake in this year’s election: Speaking about Senator Obama, Thompson stated, “If Senator Obama is elected president with a Democrat majority in the House and Senate, this country will make a dramatic shift to the left such as we have never seen before. Senator Obama and the Democratic congress will be unrestrained and unrepentant at making our country, as never before, more divided, more dependent

“…your smile is your fortress, your smile is your fortress, your smile is your fortress, your smile is your — wait a second. Delaware may be small, but everyone knows that it’s not the size of the land mass, it’s how you use it that counts! Am I right…? Oh, Joe, baby! That’s some quality soundbite material! Make a mental note. Break it out at the next rally. That is,

Marc Ambinder, writing in the Atlantic: The patchwork problem of federal and state election regulations strikes again. Military ballots are being tossed in Fairfax Co, VA because of a “technicality.” Not a lot of them compared to the size of the electorate, but more than a few. The registrar of voters in [sic] a Democrat. He thinks it “stinks,” but the law is the law. Fairfax general registrar Rokey Suleman

And in so doing, validates what many of us had already concluded 7 years ago. Now if they could take the next step and lower Maureen Dowd’s rating to “snippy, irrelevant, faux-sophisticate with the dusty wit of a Gallagher-tooled melon shower,” the paper of record will have been properly recorded…

Here, a story on Palin and special needs children — as filtered through NBC: Then there’s this, from the LA Times Blog : In Pittsburgh, Palin, as part of her belated but expanding activities with the media, also granted one of her first newspaper interviews, to the Chicago Tribune’s Jill Zuckman. Some highlights from Palin’s interview / dodging of the press: […] Palin insisted she did not accept $150,000 worth

Given my ongoing troubles with YouTube, I feel compelled to point this out: “1&1 Internet Has Allowed My Domain to Be Hijacked”. From Patterico: Look up at the address bar. This is still the Patterico site — but I no longer have the patterico.com domain — even though I renewed it before the expiration date. My domain registrar has apparently seen fit to sell the domain out from under me

The always brilliant Kim Crawford, drawing on the equally indispensable Flannery O’Connor for inspiration, puts into words what many classical liberals are feeling in the run-up to election day. From “The Man in the Lavender Automobile”: There have been any variety of temperaments and personalities to hold the office of President. They range from heroes to rapscallions. I fervently believe, however, that not one person to hold that office has

…But, like, bombing federal buildings and GI dances to strike fear in the heart of the bourgeois pigs who blindly empower imperialist Amerikkka? That we’re all for! From the description of their new book, to be released soon (mustn’t draw attention before the election, you understand…): White supremacy and its troubling endurance in American life is debated in these personal essays by two veteran political activists. Arguing that white supremacy

“…your smile is your fortress, your smile is your fortress, your smile is your fortress, your smile — wait, did Gunga Din here give me the right change? What’s the tax on a Super Big Gulp, anyhow? Hey, dot head! you’re about a nickel short, sport — No! Stop that, Joe! Think happy thoughts. Think delicious 64oz Mug Root Beer in a giant plastic cup! Think tasty bubbles! Concentrate. Your

Daniel Henninger, WSJ: The abuse being heaped on Sarah Palin is such a cheap shot. The complaint against the Alaska governor, at its most basic, is that she doesn’t qualify for admission to the national political fraternity. Boy, that’s rich. Behold the shabby frat house that says it’s above her pay grade. Congress has the lowest approval rating ever registered in the history of polling (12%!). She isn’t the reason