Matt seems vexed that conservatives (like myself) refuse to admit that throwing around allegations of voter fraud is akin to intimidating voters into not exercising the franchise, or some such. From the first (of two) posts on the subject Friday:
What’s needed to make a real case for voter fraud is instances of people actually voting [...]

One of the great things about my new job is that it affords me the opportunity to listen to 106.7’s Junkies on my drive to work in the morning. For those of you who live outside the beltway (you poor, unfortunate souls), the Junkies (originally the Sports Junkies, they dropped the “Sports” a few years [...]

Now, I think anti-semitism is a terrible thing. I’m extremely sympathetic to the idea propagated by some that Israel controls the United States’s foreign policy is an anti-semitic idea. Around the world (and especially around the developing/Arab world), anti-semitism is pretty well accepted, and I find this disgusting.
But is mocking George Soros really grounded in [...]

Take heart, Icelanders. Your savings may be vanishing like your glaciers, and you may soon be in hock to Russia for nearly half your GDP, but you have one of Europe’s most important books, The Icelandic Sagas.

Last week, while I was riding the train to school, a man entered the carriage and began to address its passengers in a loud voice. He was about mid-thirties, I’d guess; black, heavyset, and well but not expensively dressed. He claimed to be out of work, recently out of prison, and presently residing, for $12 [...]

Over the weekend, I attended a traditional south Indian wedding. It was quite a lovely ceremony, though undercut somewhat by it’s non-traditional location in Jacksonville — of which there might be even less “there” there than Oakland.
The ceremony was rather complex, at least compared with the Christian and Jewish weddings I’ve attended. It consisted of [...]

Matt Yglesias thinks that commuters don’t pay enough. After comparing highway travel to free ice cream day at Ben and Jerry’s, he writes:
Put in a road somewhere and unless it’s a Bridge to Nowhere-style boondoggle, it’ll spur development along its route. And with that development comes vehicles. And soon enough it becomes too many vehicles. [...]

Media Bistro takes “The New Yorker’s” Peter J. Boyer to task for not tipping the homburg to Matt Labash, something that has now occurred in the magazine for the second time this year. Longtime readers will remember me blasting Jeffrey Toobin for doing much the same back in May. Is it really too much effort [...]

I cannot tell you how immensely frustrated I am by this post over at RedState. Writes Erick Erickson:
Today, [Culture11 is] pushing a piece hard on why conservative leaders should get Sarah Palin to resign. The day before the debate, this is their story. Surely they just want attention.
I’m happy to let Katleen Parker, etc. say [...]

I’ve never understood jabs like this one:
“JOHN MCCAIN LOVES HIS GOVERNMENT PROVIDED HEALTH INSURANCE, HATES BEING ASKED ABOUT IT.”
That’s the headline of Ezra’s post, the gist of his argument being that hey, if Senators have great health insurance EVERYONE should have similarly great health insurance. This is, how you say, ridiculously stupid? Yes, ridiculously stupid. [...]

…for approving the bailout plan is that the upper management of the institutions involved have to move into these apartments:

…but I’ve thought from the beginning that this whole financial meltdown was no one person or group’s fault. Mortgage companies were strong-armed into making high-risk loans to minority loan applicants, a process that sped up exponentially during the Clinton years; those same companies then got greedy, figuring they could take on other risky loans if [...]

The NRA is running an ad that the Obama campaign doesn’t care for. Did the Obama campaign craft a response ad, or talk to the media denouncing the NRA’s facts?
Of course not! Obama threatened to shut the stations that run the ad down through FCC regulation!
Think about this for a second: The Obama campaign is [...]

I see that overrated Knicks fan, Spike Lee, has a new film out, about four black G.I.s in Tuscany during the Italian Campaign in WWII. I know I can look forward to seeing the Tuscan townsfolk depicted with sensitivity and care by Mr. Lee:
“Luigi! Why you do this to you mama!”

Andrew Sullivan is pissed that Howie Kurtz wrote about his conspiracy theorizing with regard to Sarah Palin’s youngest child. Sullivan sent McCain spokesman Michael Goldfarb a pair of emails asking him to confirm whether or not Trig is Gov. Palin’s daughter; Goldfarb (full disclosure: a friend and former coworker) sent them to Kurtz; Sullivan is [...]

Is it just me, or does this come off as kind of, um, silly? Or, to put it another way: I’m all for McCain and Obama coming back to DC so they can actually vote on these proposals, read the bills, whatever. But why propose the debate? Neither McCain nor Obama is on a committee [...]

From the Chicago Sun Times:
Charging an extra $3 to pour cheese topping into a bag of Fritos recently led to a scuffle at a Tinley Park gas station.
At about 6:16 a.m. Friday, Darryl Lust Jr., 25, 15145 S. Honore Ave., Harvey, was waiting in line at Speedway, 7201 W. 183rd St., to buy a can [...]

I’ve never really understood the radical left’s desire to lionize the Rosenbergs as martyrs: treason is the one crime specifically listed in the Constitution (with death a possible penalty); they were pretty clearly guilty; nothing in the intervening years has suggested otherwise. Yet even today, when a coconspirator admits that Julius Rosenberg was a spy [...]

My friend Franklin Cudjoe, executive director of IMANI (the free-market think tank in Ghana) sent me this excellent article on the ridiculous promises politicians make to get elected.
Some choice excerpts:
Provide free electricity to the masses by means of ‘permanent magnets’.
‘Grow’ donkeys in sufficient numbers to transform the agricultural capacity of the North, in an integrated [...]

The estimable Daniel Larison, who tosses off posts like Robert Pollard writes pop songs, nails Charles Krauthammer today. I’ve frankly had it up to here with Mr. Krauthammer ever since his spat with Francis Fukuyama, where he proved himself — like the streetfighter that he is — more interested in getting a good hold on [...]