CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRAT is maintaining a distant third place in the primary race for D.C. mayor.

In D.C., the election is the Democrat primary; the fact that a relative conservative is even running is significant. I wish him luck.

AMERICAN POLITICS has caught the British disease.

Liberal politics is now – over there as much as here – a form of social snobbery. To express concern about mass immigration, or reservations about the Obama healthcare plan, is unacceptable in bien-pensant circles because this is simply not the way educated people are supposed to think. It follows that those who do think (and talk) this way are small-minded bigots, rednecks, oiks, or whatever your local code word is for "not the right sort".

Linked from Instapundit.

PUNISHMENT WORKS; withholding it doesn’t.

MAMA CAN’T FIND A DOCTOR, and other fallout from new Democratic legislation.

So starting in 2011, seniors will die sooner thanks to a reduction of physicians accepting Medicare, and their estates will be taxed at 55% thanks to the expiration of the Bush tax cuts. For Democrats, what’s not to like?

MRS. MADOFF exonerates Michael Mann. Sad, but true.

NEVADA IGNORES ACORN PR HEAD FAKE, proceeds with vote fraud prosecution. Good.

CAR WARS: the empire strikes again. “[W]e’ve got the government making decisions - perhaps rash decisions - about dealership closings in the wake of the GM and Chrysler nationalizations.... [I]s anyone surprised that such decisions are being made based on politics?”

ABSENCE MAKES THE HEART GROW FONDER: Obama era makes Clinton, Bush look better.