Charlie Crist has a wife. [Charlie Crist's Twitter]

Former DNC Chair Terry McAuliffe loved Hillary Clinton so much that when she was obviously and definitively losing in her bid for President, he helpfully appeared on many television news shows drinking rum and cracking wise about how she was a shoe-in, she’d win this thing in a walk, blah blah blah. Basically Terry McAuliffe turned Hillary’s tragic downward spiral into a punchline for larfs on MSNBC. Now he will turn that same brand of trenchant political humor on himself as he launches his doomed bid for governor of the great state of Virginia, in which he has apparently lived for many years. MORE »

PEGGY NOONAN WRITES HUMDRUM COLUMN THIS SEVEN-DAY!: Can you even believe it? She just has a bunch of modestly valid points jumping all over the place, but nothing about seeing a Mexican or viewing a “rabbity forest creature darting among the hedgerows” on her television machine. Has our Miss Noonington been reading Wonkette’s weekly scholarly criticism of “Declarations” and decided to tone down the neo-Victorianisms? ‘Twoud be a shame! FREE PEGGY NOONAN! [WSJ]

We’ve had a wonderful year with our favorite columns-writer-of, Peggy Noonan — maybe because, in our hearts, we knew this day was coming, this declaration to end all declarations. And here, today, we have our reward, our moment of grace. As usual, as always, our Peggy doesn’t bother with tired old introductions and such — this is, after all, a woman who burst into Bloomingdale’s and demanded pen and paper, one day, when she chanced upon a Mexican. Instead, she drops the bomb we always expected, like this: “The case for Barack Obama, in broad strokes:” And then she makes her case, which contains the most delightfully cruel assessment of John McCain’s delusional character we’ve even encountered. MORE »

Kosovo was this little place in Eastern Europe where there was some war thing we got involved in, like, a decade ago. In any case, not that much has changed politically there because no one but the Serbs and the Kosovians really cared about anything but no more fighting. But, in that decade, the Kosovians managed to get a couple key backers for their peaceful break from Serbia — the U.S. and Germany. Both nations reportedly plan to back Kosovo’s declaration of independence from Serbia when they make it after the Serbian elections in February. And, um, also, this guy will be their peacefully elected prime minister. His name is Hashim Thaci and there’s about to be a new entrant in the race to see who the hottest head of state is in 2008. [International Herald Tribune]