OH, GOOD GRIEF: GOP Mines Tennessee CCW Permit Data.

IN THE MAIL: From Nicole Gelinas, After the Fall: Saving Capitalism from Wall Street and Washington. Amity Shlaes loves it. What more do you need to know?

REASON TV: Reason Foundation Co-Founder Bob Poole on Ayn Rand.

PATTERICO: L.A. Times Corrects ACORN Error, Kinda-Sorta.

BYRON YORK: In Virginia and New Jersey, Health Care Was A Losing Issue.

Dick Morris: A Deathblow To ObamaCare.

DON SURBER: “In choosing Democrat Bill Owens over Conservative Doug Hoffman, perhaps the people of the district were telling outsiders to butt out.”

DOCUMENT THEFT in open court?

CLAUDIA ROSETT; “When the Berlin Wall came down 20 years ago, it did not fall from sheer wear and tear of tyranny. People actively chose to destroy it.”

POWERLINE: If you can get to Washington on Thursday, you should go.

VERONIQUE DE RUGY LOOKS AT WHERE STIMULUS MONEY IS BEING SPENT: Even The Feds Don’t Believe They Can Create Jobs.

ED MORRISSEY: Lessons From Election Night. “Obama will still be president for another three years, but the mystique is gone. New Jersey just taught Democrats in Congress a big lesson — Obama can’t get them re-elected.”

Yeah, that’s my take, too.

UPDATE: More from Michael Barone. “Affluent suburban voters moved sharply toward Republicans in 2009. . . . The 2009 election results are certainly not going to make it easy for Speaker Nancy Pelosi to round up the needed 218 votes for Democrats’ health care bills.”

ANOTHER MUNICIPAL BANKRUPTCY: “The city of Prichard filed for bankruptcy Tuesday in an attempt to cope with the debt created by fighting lawsuits and addressing the demands of unpaid and agitated retired city employees. The Chapter 9 filing marks the second time in a decade that the city declared it was out of money.”

HEADLINE OF THE DAY: Maine Agrees With Obama: No Same Sex Marriage!

AFTER ALL THAT, WHY DIDN’T HOFFMAN WIN? Ann Althouse goes to the photos.

JACOB SULLUM ON OBAMA’S BROKEN TAX PLEDGE: When the president does it, it’s not a tax.

ROGER SIMON: Election 2009: The Strange Case of NY23.

MICKEY KAUS on winners and losers in yesterday’s elections. Plus, the L.A. Times carries headline spin too far!

BOINGBOING: Secret copyright treaty leaks. It’s bad. Very bad.

The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama’s administration refused to disclose due to “national security” concerns, has leaked. It’s bad.

Doesn’t seem to be a lot of concern for Internet freedom emanating from this Administration.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Discreet Charm Of The Left-Wing Plutocracy. “To distill Gorism is to live in a 1,000 sq. ft. solar house, bike to work, and take the train on long distances; but to promote Gorism, one lives in a mansion, jets on private planes, and is chauffeured from airport to conference center—a rather heavy carbon footprint indeed. I mention that because this week he has insisted that he only invested in what he believes in and is thus not a hypocrite—sort of like a 1990s Fannie or Freddie director saying he is only taking mega-bonuses because he believes in public support for housing.”

LOSS IN MAINE, VICTORY IN HOUSTON: Michael Petrelis says that the lesson in politics is to avoid support from Gay, Inc. “In Maine the AP is calling the gay marriage proposition a loss. But down in Houston, Texas, the openly lesbian mayoral candidate, Annise Parker, who I really never heard of until very recently, was the top vote-getter tonight in a race still to be settled in a run-off.”

SCOZZAFAVA’S REVENGE: Her Endorsement of Democrat Owens Gave Him a 3 to 1 Edge with Undecideds Over Last 72 Hours.

TAXES ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: Ron Dellums, Wife, Owe $239K in Back Taxes. “Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums and his wife failed to pay more than $239,000 in taxes over a three-year period, public records show. Dellums, 73, and his wife, Cynthia, 55, who acts as his unpaid adviser, are named in a lien issued by the Internal Revenue Service and filed with the Alameda County recorder’s office Oct. 14. The lien says the couple failed to pay $124,198 in federal income taxes in 2005, $66,554 in 2006 and $48,246 in 2007, the year Dellums took office as mayor.” I’m guessing he didn’t wait to acquire that habit until after he left Congress, but I could be wrong. . . .

MY ELECTION TAKE IN THE NEW YORK POST: The Obama Magic Has Faded.

GOLD HITS RECORD HIGH ON LOSS OF FAITH IN DOLLAR: “Gold prices on Tuesday surged to an all-time high after India’s central bank bought 200 tonnes of the precious metal, swapping dollars for bullion as the country’s finance minister warned the economies of the US and Europe had ‘collapsed’. India’s decision to exchange $6.7bn for gold equivalent to 8 per cent of world annual mine production sent the strongest signal yet that Asian countries were moving away from the US currency.”

CHICAGO TRIBUNE: “V” Aims At Obamamania. Judging from tonight’s elections, they’re a bit behind . . . .