Biden's new role: Good cop.

A post-election view of McCain

Terry McAuliffe to run for Virginia governor

Al Franken's odds of winning the Minnesota recount long -- and short

Howard Dean to step down as DNC chair. Who's going to replace him?

Join the Impact - Protest information for upcoming Prop 8 protests

Obama roasts Rahm Emanuel in 2005. Funny stuff. (Via Andrew Sullivan)

Peggy Noonan says Obama looks like a winner. But she wonders, "One wonders if in the presidency he'll be like the dog that chased the car and caught it: What's he supposed to do now?" Um, a great job?

From Daily Kos: "You heard the story -- it was all over the right-wing blogs. Some poor white girl, 20-year-old Ashley Todd of Texas, was mugged at an ATM, but when the mugger (a big black guy) saw her car with the McCain sticker, he beat her and carved a letter "B" in her face with a knife. Apparently it was a dyslexic mugger because the "B" was carved backward, but whatever -- it proved that Obama's supporters were violent and craaazy!" Except it was a hoax, made up by a campaign volunteer.

Former Massachusetts governor William Weld, a Republican, became the latest political figure to cross party lines with his endorsement of Barack Obama today

McCain fights to keep working class men

There is, apparently, a movement called "Intellectuals for McCain and Palin."

Via Daily Kos:

An exciting, recent fossil find suggest Texas was a hotbed of primate evolution 45 million years ago. Unfortunately, as the Texas Freedom Network has been blogging for months, recent history suggests Texas is leading the rest of the nation backwards in our understanding of science in general and evolution specifically.

The Young Earth Creationists just aren't having it, though. Their, uh, version of a scientific theory is being put in the ring with Science. Dentist, op-ed contributor, Young Earth Creationist, and head of the Texas Board of Education Dan McLeroy has written an especially optimistic piece for The Waco Tribune. Mr. McLeroy writes:

All we must do to maintain science’s credibility and to decide if there are weaknesses in the evolutionary hypothesis is 'to use evidence to construct testable explanations' and see where the evidence leads. Let the best scientific explanation win.

Someone is totally gonna get hurt.

Bush's Haunted House

Tom Toles, copyright 2008 Universal Press Syndicate

Obama seeks LGBT support in battleground state

Bill Clinton recommends . . . .

Obama shatters fundraising record

Meet Kay Hagan, the woman who's about to end Elizabeth Dole's senatorial career

And, of course, Colin Powell endorses Obama. You can watch Powell's appearance on Meet The Press in The Media Bar. Daily Kos thinks the endorsement "inflicted real damage."


John McCain Accidentally Left On Campaign Bus Overnight