WHEN SOMEONE WHO HAS EARNED THE MEDAL OF HONOR ENTERS A ROOM, a hush follows, like waters opening. The stillness in his wake is palpable. Men are filled with more than admiration. The emotion is a mix of awe, envy and wonder. "Would I be capable of that?" each asks himself.

Read the rest. And be grateful.

SARAH PALIN ENDORSEMENTS. Her “Mama Grizzlies” include an equal number of “Papa Grizzlies”. From April through July, Palin has endorsed 24 candidates, 12 women and 12 men. Of her endorsements, 10 have won; only 4 have lost in early primary battles. All of the endorsements were taken from Palin's Facebook page.

Here are her endorsements:

Governor

Karen Handel (GA)
Mary Fallin (OK)
Nikki Haley (SC)
Terry Branstad (IA)
Tom Emmer (MN)
Rita Meyer (WY)

Senate

Kelly Ayotte (NH)
Carly Fiorina (CA)
Todd Tiahrt (KS)
Joe Miller (AK)
Clint Didier (WA)

House of Representatives

Angela McGlowan (MS-1)
Anne Marie Buerkle (NY-25)
CeCe Heil (TN-5)
Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-5)
Star Parker (CA-37)
Cecile Bledsoe (AK-3)
Bob McConnell (CO-3)
Paul Gosar (AZ-1)
Tim Scott (SC-1)
John Koster (WA-2)
Tim Burns (PA-12)
John Gomez (NY-2)
Michael Grimm (NY-13)

The Washington Post has an endorsement tracker here.

HIGHER EDUCATION? “[C]olleges and universities serve the people who work there more than the parents and taxpayers who pay for ‘higher education’ or the students who so desperately need it.”

And "the mediocrity of Harvard undergraduate teaching is an open secret of the Ivy League."

Linked from TaxProf Blog, where one commenter noted: “Kind of like a govt union... Support themselves, not the customer.”

MORE JOURNOLIST COVERAGE

You non-JournoList reporters are going to be tarred by association. “[Y]our credibility has just taken a big hit, because we, your faithful readers, don’t actually know who is or who isn’t [a JournoLister]. You can thank JournoList for that, you can thank Ezra Klein, and you can thank the Washington Post, which has done its outstanding professionals absolutely no favors in any of this.”

"[A] lot of the material on Journolist is actually pretty banal. In addition to being partisan hacks, a lot of these guys turn out to be pedestrian thinkers. Disappointing.”

Read them both.

THE MORE LAWS A CULTURE HAS, the more lawless you can tell it has become.

ELECTRIC LEMON: "[The Chevy] Volt appears to be just the sort of car one would expect to come out of 'Government Motors,' whose design is dictated by people who have not one iota of experience on how to design cars that people actually want to drive. The desire of people to be ecologically correct will only go so far. People do not want the driving experience to be an exercise in
self-abuse."

Read it all.

GARDEN ZOMBIE: Every flowerbed needs one.

Link from Instapundit.

PRIUS NOT A CHOICE OF CAR THIEVES: “I guess our friends in the car theft business haven’t gotten the environmental message.”

From the radio.