IN THE MAIL: Lawrence Alexander’s Rubicon, and Cintra Wilson’s Caligula for President: Better American Living Through Tyranny. The reader reviews on Alexander’s book are amusing.

I predict that if Obama is elected President, we’ll see no more last-days-of-Rome books from left-leaning authors. Anyway, the Caligula example is unfair. He only named one ass to the Senate, while we have many more in ours. . . .