NYT columnist David Brooks has never been poor, unemployed or uninsured. That's how he could write this column. [...] 
TPM:
From Joe.My.God, an outsider's view of one of South Carolina's economic development schemes:
Only on the job since March, RNC communications director Trevor Francis has quit. Chairman Toby, in a nice irony, has brought in old-time Jesse Helms hand Alex Castellanos to help the party race-bait through the 2010 elections. [...] 
Ronald Reagan famously commented that he didn't leave the Democratic Party, it left him. Now the Republicans have returned the favor.
They got the technology, they got the new ideas, and yet somehow McLovin' spent the day staring at a potted palm hoping to find a congressional district in it:
Tacking further right by the week, the 4th district's congressman says if the economy gets better the wetbacks will be back and we need to stop that right now. [...] 
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Fair play to Cafe Press, which announced it is taking down all the Christianist Psalm 109:8 merchandise it was offering.
In Noblesville, Indiana Mrs. Palin gave her fans a taste of her governing style: she left with several hundred teabaggers holding unsigned books. Video and disgruntled fan comments here. [...] 
In a shrewd move to preserve market share, the ex-gay organization Exodus is opposed to the Ugandan legislation to make being gay a death penalty crime. Their reasoning is that if all the gays are killed, there'll be nobody to convert.' [...] 
Look for a slow Tweet week for Congressman Joe Wilson: his Twitter advisor, David All, is at a blogging conference in France also frequented by homosexualists. American ones. [...] 
According to Fox News, here's the crowd at Sarah Palin's first book signing event:
An 800-pound Greenwood County man has died after spending eight months in his recliner.
Let's see if anyone in the SC conservative blogdom will call this out as wrong:
Both SC senators voted against breaking the filibuster against the nomination of David Hamilton to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. [...] 
Based on numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the VA estimates that 18 veterans a day — or 6,500 a year — take their lives, but that number includes vets from all previous wars. [...] 
A Georgia high school teacher has been charged with putting a hit on a student he thought was gay.
Mrs. Palin's book has no index. 
Andrew Sullivan:
