WHO’S MORE FAMOUS AS AN EMBLEM OF FINANCIAL FAILURE? Ken Lay, Jim Johnson, or Franklin Raines?

SEX, LIES, AND MUCINEX: The latest PJM Political is online, in case you missed it on XM Satellite radio yesterday.

FLYING GREEN WITH THE AIR FORCE: Their strong interest in synthetic fuel and biofuel has me a bit worried. What do they know that I don’t? Video at the link.

SARAH PALIN becomes a major fundraising draw for McCain.

FANNIE MAE: ALL IN THE FAMILY.

MICHAEL SILENCE: “I just saw NBC News tonight doing a ‘reality check’ segment on Sarah Palin. So I checked NBC’s Web site and I found no reality check segment on Joe Biden. So, who is it that really needs a reality check?”

What, is Joe Biden running for something?

ABC NEWS fact-checks an Obama ad. “The Obama campaign has crossed a line into misleading the viewers of its new TV ad. In Spanish, the word is erróneo.”

Plus, Obama charged with “stoking racism.”

MORE ON McCain and Fannie Mae in 2005. As with the Surge, he was right. Difference is, he was listened to on the Surge.

JIM TREACHER: “This is not free speech. This is not ‘people expressing their opinion.’ This is people expressing Obama’s opinion. This is a powerful politician abusing his power to try to silence his critics, without even bothering to hide behind Media Matters or Kos. This is wrong.”

HILLARY BACKER DONALD TRUMP endorses John McCain.

UPDATE: Saint Obama comes down to Earth.

LISA FAIRFAX:

When people say that a company is too big to fail, does that really mean that a company is simply “too big”? If so, does that mean that we need to do more to encourage smaller companies, or at the very least do more to discourage large companies or companies that are intertwined with too many industries?

Yes, “too big to fail” may be another way of saying “too many eggs in that basket.”

GAFFE-O-MATIC: Uh, Senator, Anybody Can See the Inside of a Building Like This.

Related item here.

MICKEY KAUS: “Can the $9 million raised tonight by Obama at that Beverly Hills Barbra Streisand celebrity fundraiser possibly win him as many votes as the bad publicity from the fundraiser is losing him? I don’t think so. … P.S.: I’m from Beverly Hills! I’ve learned the hard way that there is no way to make it go down well with the rest of America.”

THEY TOLD ME THAT IF GEORGE W. BUSH WERE RE-ELECTED, no one’s email would be safe from the prying of jackbooted thugs motivated by politics, not national security. And they were right!

I emailed Nick Denton about this, and he replied: “We didn’t publish Bristol’s phone number. (Tho we did call it. And we did publish shrunk screenshots of the emails.) You know also that we’d have no hesitation in publishing similar info about Obama or Biden. If we’re sleazebags, we’re equal-opportunity sleazebags.” I like Nick, but this was not Gawker’s finest hour.

UPDATE: Reader Rahul Banta writes: “Maybe this is why John McCain doesn’t use email?!” That would be smart.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Some legal analysis from Orin Kerr. Orin doesn’t discuss civil liability, though. If it were my email, I’d probably file a civil suit. The discovery alone might be fun.

YET ANOTHER UPDATE: Taking sides? “The Secret Service contacted The Associated Press on Wednesday and asked for copies of the leaked e-mails, which circulated widely on the Internet. The AP did not comply.”

A ROUNDUP OF books about animals. But where’s Rescuing Sprite?

MICHAEL SILENCE: “The WaPo did itself no favors today by having a correction on one Palin story and a clairification on another one. It does, though, make McCain’s strategy of running against the MSM a lot easier.”

SOME CHEERFUL ECONOMIC THOUGHTS from Ed Cone.

HOT AIR: McCain’s attempt to fix Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac in 2005. It didn’t succeed. Plus, an Obama AIG gaffe. If Sarah Palin had made that mistake, it would be proof that she’s an unqualified neophyte.

ILYA SOMIN: Reasons to worry about McCain and Obama’s “public service” initiatives.

JAMES TARANTO EXPLAINS basic legislative principles: “As a public service on this Constitution Day, we therefore present a lesson for DailyKos readers (and anyone else who could use a refresher) in How a Bill Becomes a Law.”

TIMOTHY FURNISH: “Jesus was a community organizer; Pilate was a governor” is ahistorical and just plain dumb.

THE WORD IS “Tawdry.”

AN AMUSING IDEA FROM RAND SIMBERG: “Get SNL to have Palin as a guest where she can do impressions of Tina Fey.”

HEH. “Gibson did not deliver.” I think the Dallas Cowboys version was funnier, but this one has some good lines. Especially the one about Time.

REVIEWING THE Bentley Continental GT Speed. But not favorably: “The Speed gets away with being so dim-witted simply because of the badge and the engine. But it’s not enough, because the Bentley’s a badly executed car.” For over $200K, it seems like you should get more . . . .