• Tom Tancredo: his new ad may be considered tasteless by some. What effect will this controversy have on his promising presidential aspirations?
  
  
• If you're boxing, you don't wait until the fifth round to throw a punch.
  
  
• "But Mom! He started it!" Somebody send Wes Clark home and tell him not to come back to the campaign trail until he's gotten a clue.
  
  
• I can deal with crazy people on the street cursing loudly at an invisible man named George. The crazy people that scare me are the ones coherent enough to successfully argue their constitutional rights in court.
  

  A federal appeals court Thursday sided with a Kansas woman who believes that God’s hatred of homosexuality requires her to picket funerals for American soldiers holding signs that read “Thank God for Dead Soldiers” and “God Blew Up the Troops.”

  Shirley Phelps-Roper is part of a Topeka, Kan. church that contends God is punishing the United States for permitting homosexuality by killing soldiers. In response to a August 2005 protest by Phelps-Roper and other members of her church at the funeral of Army Spc. Edward Lee Myers in St. Joseph, Mo., the Missouri legislature passed a pair of laws that prohibited picketing near a funeral location or procession. [...]
  
  As an aside, a visit to the church's website reveals that the church doesn't simply show up funerals. Upcoming targets include Billy Joel (and not for continuing to release greatest hits packages), Ozzy Osbourne, R. Kelly, Mannheim Steamroller(!) and, for some unspecified reason, the University of Kansas basketball game against Ohio University.

• If you don't believe in a God, and don't belong to an organized group that claims to know the ins and outs of the nature of the divine, Mitt Romney thinks you just suck, and you should probably move to Cuba, you godless commie swine!
  

• Here's the question: if you're you going to do something of dubious legality and unambiguous immorality that you're going to have to protect yourself from, like planning the Watergate break-in or torturing someone, why the hell would you tape it to begin with?
  
  
• I don't know if there's such a thing as a "December Surprise," but this will have your jaws on the floor. Ready? Tom Tancredo did not participate in the Spanish-language GOP debate on Univision. I know. Your mind is blown, isn't it?
  
  
• The only reason Dana Perino has a job is because she's the most attractive aryan dumb enough to come near the Bush administration.
  
  
• Thanks to a single magical instance of collective non-hypocrisy (or possibly just good taste) by the Republican Party, Giuliani appears to have seen his presidential hopes annihilated by his inability to control his own penis.
  
  
• At long last, the White House answers all of your questions about Scooter Libby and the Valerie Plame leak debacle . . . if your only question was "has Dana Perino talked with the president about the matter since Libby made his announcement that he's not going to continue his appeals."