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CLINTON V. OBAMA: The Lawsuit!

IN THE MAIL: Daniel Flynn’s A Conservative History of the American Left.

MICKEY KAUS AND ROBERT WRIGHT DISCUSS the welfare-terrorism connection. Here’s Mickey’s original post on the topic, and here’s the New York Times piece they reference. (First link was to the wrong clip before. Fixed now. Sorry!)

DEVIL MAY C.A.I.R.

PAUL KRUGMAN ON THE VENOMOUS POLITICS OF . . . HOPE?

These days even the Democratic Party seems to be turning into Nixonland. . . . I won’t try for fake evenhandedness here: most of the venom I see is coming from supporters of Mr. Obama, who want their hero or nobody. I’m not the first to point out that the Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality.

Ann Althouse is surprised to see Krugman casting Obama in the Nixon role.

UPDATE: Reader James Ivers emails: “Boy, it’s a good thing the Clintons don’t play rough, or there’d be no one to stand as an anti-Nixonland exemplar.” Indeed.

HOW TO BE A female head of state.

MR. BRIN goes to Washington.

THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: A failed state?

IN THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW. an excerpt from Shelby Steele’s A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can’t Win. Though so far, he’s doing OK.

A BOOK IDEA, from Ed Driscoll.

VOTE FRAUD IN CHICAGO: The Book.

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: The Senate takes up wiretapping of foreign terrorists this week, and the stakes couldn’t be higher.

SOMETHING IMPRESSIVE, at the University of Minnesota.

NO SEX-TALK, PLEASE: We’re Clintons.

UPDATE: Bush defends Bill Clinton against accusations of racism.

NEWS FROM MEXICO: “The Army had a big week in its war on the cartelistas (drug gangs). The army conducted an operation in Tamaulipas state that led to the capture of five men and a large weapons cache. The cache was found on a ranch and included plastic explosive, hand grenades, bullet-proof protective vests, 80 sets of military uniforms, 89 rifles and 83,000 rounds of ammunition.” Frankly, parts of Mexico are starting to sound like Iraq.