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Harry Brighouse hears some murmuring:So I hear (via a prominent member of the sane Republican faction) that the word on the right side of the street is that the Republican National Committee is about to pull the plug on its joint ads with the McCain campaign, and devote its resources instead to trying to save a couple of the senators who are at serious risk of losing their seats. Now this is gossip, albeit of ...

"Let us make it obligatory for homosexuals to have their backsides tattooed with the slogan SODOMY CAN SERIOUSLY DAMAGE YOUR HEALTH and their chins with FELLATIO KILLS," - Rev Dr Peter Mullen, Anglican rector of St Michael’s Cornhill and St Sepulchre without Newgate in the City of London.

Scott Horton is puzzled by the Palin e-mail hacker case:Generally the Department has not acted in cases in which the result of the intrusion is merely to embarrass the target, for a fairly obvious reason. At best we’re only talking about a misdemeanor. The Palin email hacking case quite plainly falls into this category. So what is going on? The Justice Department seems to be setting one of its amazing new rules. When a Republican ...

"Here's a newsbreak: Disagreeing with the Bush administration on a handful of issues (often the wrong ones, in McCain's case) doesn't make you a maverick, it makes you an average American. And, sadly, the second debate proved that McCain would be incapable of making his party's philosophical or political case even if he genuinely tried," - David Harsanyi, Denver Post.

Harry Shearer explains how Obama's cat moves contrast with McCain as a possum. It's the only known analysis of the McCain-Obama race that concludes with an imitation of a possum being tasered.

The torture techniques deployed against anyone George W. Bush unilaterally labeled an enemy combatant drove some of them insane:A U.S. military officer warned Pentagon officials that an American detainee was being driven nearly insane by months of punishing isolation and sensory deprivation in a U.S. military brig, according to documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union and provided to The Associated Press... They were deprived of natural light for months and for years were ...

To some, a president Obama is simply unimaginable. From a McCain supporter in Wisconsin yesterday: "We're all wondering why Obama is where he's at. How he got here. Everybody in this room is stunned we're in this position." There was always going to be a point of revolt and panic for a core group of Americans who believe that Obama simply cannot be president - because he's black or liberal or young or relatively new. ...

David von Drehle in Missouri: "Who do you think will win around here?" I asked. "Obama," Robbie Haggard answered flatly, and several others agreed. "But Missouri's always been Republican," Pyle protested. "I think Missouri's had about enough," Holly Haggard said."

The legislative report into Palin's alleged abuse of power has survived the McCain camp's attempt to shut it down via the state Supreme Court. Looks like Alaskans are more able to fight back against Palin than the national press corps. The report comes out tomorrow. Watch for more accusations that Obama is a treasonous terrorist. It's an attempt to hide the fact that Palin is corrupt and unqualified.

The general suggests talking to our enemies: Greg Sargent has more context.

Rich "Little Starbursts" Lowry:If Obama is elected, won't we have our most left-wing government ever? Obama is to the left of FDR and LBJ, Democrats who existed in a different world, prior to the cultural revolution in the Democratic party. Carter and Clinton both ran as, and had records as, Southern moderates. ...on the face of it this would be the most left-wing government ever, no? Am I missing something? Only the last eight years.Have ...

Robert Greenwald puts out a video on McCain's penchant for rage. Former senator and fellow Keating Five member Dennis DeConcini's anecdote is telling. Having witnessed one of McCain's explosions firsthand in the Senate dining room, I can personally testify that I have very rarely seen any outburst of temper more explosive and nasty. Now, I have a temper too. I'm not judging the man, whose passions are real and whose service to his country should ...

A reader worries about a Republican meltdown. So do I for the same reasons: As a Democrat who crossed over to vote Republican only once in her life, I should be delighted at what you wrote. Especially in light of my support for the Obama campaign and McCain's swan-dive this week into the Rove abyss. But I feel oddly depressed. It took me a while to figure out why. The biggest thing I have learned ...

With the exception of America's superb armed forces, Hitch agrees with Krugman: At a White House meeting with his financial wizards—and I mean the term in its literal sense—the same chief executive is reported to have whimpered, “This whole sucker could implode,” or words to that effect. It’s not difficult to imagine the scene. So add one more banana-republic feature to the profile: a president who is a figurehead one day and a despot the ...

Ripping open our dirty little secrets.

If something, God forbid, ever happened to a president McCain:

Assessing the Senate polling, Nate Silver makes two telling adjustments:I have also made a couple of changes to the regression model. Firstly, we are replacing the partisan ID variable with a variable indicating Obama's current standing in our presidential projections. Evidently, there are some coattails/synergies with Obama's ground game in states like North Carolina. And secondly, I have introduced a variable for the number of Southern Baptists -- our "scientific" way to demarcate the South ...

A new prayer for the faithful:"O God, we are in a battle that is raging for the soul of this nation. You, O God, have raised up Senator John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin for such a time as this ... Help them, O God, to strengthen our economy, to keep our taxes and spending low ... and grant them the privilege of being elected the next president and vice president."That was at a McCain-Palin ...

Only one knows what he's talking about.