MATT LABASH TELLS ALL: My Night Of Passion With Barbara Mikulski.

YOU CAN’T SAY THAT HERE: This is a university!

THE “D” STANDS FOR “DESPERATE:” Congressman Ron Kind (D-WI) shoves blogger’s camera outside an event in Wisconsin.

UPDATE: Yet Another Congressman Belatedly Learns About YouTube. They’re slow learners, aren’t they?

AT QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY, a civil rights test for the Obama Administration. “When the head of a business or agency or university announces that he wants to hire only those of a particular race for a position, there is a clear violation of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. This is beyond a goal or even a quota.” I’m sure Eric Holder will be right on it.

A VISUAL HISTORY OF U.S. GOVERNMENT DEFICITS: “A number of my readers are claiming that the only reason Obama is running such a big deficit is that revenue has collapsed. I don’t see that in the data. These figures are in constant dollars, so they’re unaffected by inflation/deflation, or the collapse in GDP; they’re simply an assessment of the absolute increase in spending compared to taxes. As you can see, there’s a huge increase under Obama–that huge upslope is the change between 2008 and 2009 spending levels.”

GREAT MOMENTS in cognitive dissonance.

DOROTHY RABINOWITZ: Why Obama Is No FDR. “The Democrats may not take a complete battering in the current contest, but there is no doubt of the problems ahead. This election has everything to do with the man in the White House about whom Americans have lost their illusions. Illusions matter. Their loss is irrecoverable.”

KEEPING HOPE ALIVE: Nate Silver: 5 Reasons Democrats Could Beat The Polls And Hold The House. Plus reason number six, left unmentioned: Rampant fraud. Like I’ve been saying, don’t get cocky. Just vote.

ANN ALTHOUSE: 9th Circuit Judge John T. Noonan Jr. can’t understand the Justice Deparment’s argument that the Arizona immigration law is preempted by federal law.

CHANGE: Federal Reserve’s “Quantitative Easing” may mean 20% drop in dollar.

Related: QE2 risks currency wars and the end of dollar hegemony.

JUST DO IT: Today, get out and vote.

JAMES LEWIS: Optimizing DNA strand lengths for assisted self-assembly.

FROM SIMON JESTER, a warning to Republicans, new and old.

Yep.

PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW: Election Day 2010: ‘Corrupt bastards.’

MICHIGAN: PARTY TO FILE COMPLAINT AGAINST PROSECUTOR. “The Macomb County Republican Party is preparing a complaint for the state Attorney General’s Office, with audio recording, of a profane and allegedly threatening message left Saturday by Macomb County Prosecutor Eric Smith to county commission candidate James Perna.”

FROM POLITICAL WIRE, a complete list of poll-closing times. Hey, is there an election today?

JIM TREACHER: Great moments in civility, with your host Jon Stewart.

IRA STOLL: How the Left Will Spin the Election Results.

MICKEY KAUS: Countdown To Demageddon. “You have to wonder if the Dems, when they were designing the health reform, planned for the possibility that they’d lose control of Congress. Or did they create a system that needed constant legislative upkeep—confident that they would be in charge to perform it? That may have been Pelosi’s most damaging hubris.”

BOEHNER FORCES AN OBAMA RETREAT: “Hours before a scheduled scolding by House Republican Leader John Boehner in Ohio, President Barack Obama said Monday that he should have used the word ‘opponents’ instead of ‘enemies’” in a Univision radio interview.”

REALLY? Because, you know, that hasn’t been my experience.

PRE-CHRISTMAS SEASON MARKDOWNS ON TOYS FOR KIDS.

ANDREW BREITBART BUSTS ABC NEWS FOR LYING. And publishes the email.

Plus, from the comments: “Brahahahha who even watches ABC for news? I mean they have that hack George Stephanopoulos as an ‘unbiased’ news person. My God he was part of that whole Carville Begalla war room of people that just destroyed anyone that even farted in the general direction of Clinton.”

When I heard that ABC was having Andrew on as a commentator, I thought it demonstrated a surprising degree of open-mindedness and courage. Apparently I was wrong, especially about the courage. They’d rather be apparatchiks, practicising “journolistism” instead of journalism, I guess — but what will they do when the apparat isn’t there for them any more?

UPDATE: ABC Owes Viewers Explanation. It’s more of the behavior that has earned them the name of “the insanestream media.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: Why what ABC News thinks about Breitbart doesn’t matter that much: Political Blogs Rise As Trusted Sources, Media Watchdogs. (Bumped.)

KARL DENNINGER: Let’s talk about a bank holiday. “We need to do this, and do it now. What we cannot afford is an economic incident of some sort that winds up creating another crisis situation that happens in an uncontrolled fashion.” Not seeing this happen. Not enough faith in the system, or the government, to make it work even if it’s needed.

BLOGGERS: Protecting yourself from the Righthaven copyright trolls.