GEOFFREY FEIGER acquitted.

MARK STEYN: "In among all the usual presidential ditching of inconvenient associations, I can't think of anything to compare with Obama's dumping of Trinity. It's like Jimmy Carter renouncing his Baptist Church in Plains, Ga - although Carter never went so far as to title his campaign-launch promotional book after one of his preacher's sermons."

U.S. BLOGGER ACCUSES JUDGE OF BEING A STOOGE OF LEE KUAN YEW. Singapore government arrests blogger.

A TERRORISM GUILTY PLEA in Ohio. Gateway Pundit has more.

MEGAN MCARDLE:

At each turn, the news that tax revenues fall during recessions is greeted first with surprise, and then with indignation. This is perhaps why no one has expected the states to anticipate this bewildering state of affairs by building up their reserves to levels adequate to weather the really rather moderate financial storms that beset them during lean times.

Too, these articles rarely see fit to mention the other ways in which these wounds have been self-inflicted--the habit of making ever more lavish pension promises to the public sector unions, for example. Public pension funds are now officially a disaster. Politicians promised benefits without funding them. The befuddled fund managers seem to have mistaken beta for alpha, pouring their assets into riskier asset classes because they couldn't make up the deficit on a safe, modest appreciation every year. If these were private companies, most of those managers and their bosses would be under indictment.

Indeed.

SUPPRESSING THE VOTE: At Dartmouth? "I have received reports that some people have not received ballots and when they inquired as to why, they were told that they had been classified (without their knowledge) as 'not interested' in voting. If you are in that category and have not received a ballot and you are in fact interested in voting, you should call 603-646 2258 or email the alumni relations office at dartmouth [dot] alumni [dot] relations {at} dartmouth.edu."

BILL CLINTON EXPLODES AT Obama and the press:

Maybe you can figure out who Clinton means "didn't do anything about it":

"It's part of the national media's attempt to nail Hillary for Obama," Clinton continued. "It's the most biased press coverage in history. It's another way of helping Obama. They had all these people standing up in this church cheering, calling Hillary a white racist, and he didn't do anything about it.

"The first day he said 'Ah, ah, ah well.' Because that's what they do-- he gets other people to slime her. So then they saw the movie they thought this is a great ad for John McCain -- maybe I better quit the church. It's all politics. It's all about the bias of the media for Obama."

As somebody said, "The Clintons were the media's old darlings. The reason for the negative media attention is that she is now standing in the way of the media's new darling."

UPDATE: Obama's New Party endorsement.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Autopsy of the Primaries: The only Democratic Candidate who can lose the General Election; the only Republican one who can win it. Plus, advice for both candidates.

DANA GOLDSTEIN LOOKS AT Netroots infighting.

JONATHAN MARTIN: Drudge may no longer be reliable GOP ally. In truth, he never has been. Drudge likes sensational news, and puncturing the pompous self-righteousness of Big Media. That's meant he helps the GOP more than the Democrats -- who rely on Big Media's pompous self-righteousness a lot -- but that's more because of the state of the media landscape than because of any alliance.

IOWAHAWK LISTENS TO CANADIAN RADIO: Warman of the Mounted Human Rights Police.

THE INSTAWIFE has the Sex and the City book, and has some thoughts on the movie -- plus, in the comments, the cure for low testosterone!

UPDATE: Related post here.

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