* Conservatives columnists edge out progressives in newspaper column inches, which might be why no one buys newspapers anymore. [Media Matters]
* The Decider decided that he’s going to spend a year bringing home all those surge troops he worked so hard to get sent to Iraq. [Capitol Hill Blue]
* Rudy hates 9/11 widows and also probably the troops and your mother’s apple pie. [Election Central]
* Jim Webb’s long lost brother is running for president and we’re voting for him. [Fresh Intelligence]
* Mitt is slipping in the polls, as always happens with the most qualified and principled candidates. Who could have guessed this would happen after coming out of that non-binding straw poll so far ahead! [Poltiical Wire]
* OMFG China is planning secret internets-based attax on us! R WE PERPARED?? [WorldNetDaily]
* Newt Gingrich sees Iraq as part of a larger, broader, incompetently prosecuted clusterfuck. (Fixed, sort of? Intern Greg has been flogged.) [Swamp]

Everyone’s taking maximum advantage of the 9/11 “terrible bullshit punditry” pass, especially Anna Quindlen and David Andelman. Never forget to be a hack! [Radosh.net]