Taking refuge in emails. From my great friend of the blog Alex. It's the season. (And I'm originally from Wisconsin.) FW: How To Spot A guy from Wisconsin, With A DUI ConvictionThere aren't a thousand words that could replace this picture. [...]
The Syrian foreign minister, Walid Moallem, soared to Baghdad Bob levels of hilarity by trying to deny the reality of what the Israelis discovered.
“Unfortunately there are official pirates disrupting the movement of goods between Iran and Syria,” he told [...]
Speaking of a civil war, it is helpful to recall that the Republican Party was founded in opposition to "those twin relics of barbarism -- Polygamy, and Slavery." (How judgmental; how extreme!) True to its heritage, the Republican Party now stands as the bulwark against the Democratic Party's totalizing [...]

Yuval Levin, NRO: Isn’t it a little strange to argue that the NY-23 result should take the wind of N.J. and Va. out of Republican sails? It seems to me that that result makes exactly the same point as the two governor’s races: A Republican running [...]
More freedom or more government. Side by side comparison of the bills' heft. The GOP alternative.Wolf Blitzer, the CNN interviewer for the cable network's session with Axelrod, White House Communications Director Anita Dunn and Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, speaks of how many people have told him since last year's election [...]