And you thought Wonkette was having a slow news day! Well Tim Graham of the conservative Media Research Center’s porn blog, Newsbusters, has been reading most newspaper obituaries of newly dead actor Patrick Swayze, for political blog material. But it all paid off when he reached paragraph 23 of the Washington Post’s version only to find JACKPOT JACKPOT JACKPOT. “Here’s a sign the Washington Post is a liberal newspaper,” Graham begins his post. MORE »

• Hollywood talkie star Patrick Swayze, who famously had cancer, has died from the aforementioned cancer at the age of 57. [New York Times]
• “Led by their most senior black lawmakers” (?), Democrats have decided to importantly vote on whether or not to sanction Joe Wilson and whether or not to make this an issue about race. [Washington Post]
• America has blown up a car in Somalia! But what counts is what’s inside the car, namely, Al Qaeda’s most talented terrorist. [WSJ]
• The American Medical Association never likes health care reform except just now it has announced that it likes Obama’s health care reform, perhaps because it stands to gain like $200 billion as cuts to Medicare are stopped. [LA Times]
• Today on Obama’s Everyone Should Be Taking Responsibility For Things tour: Midwestern auto-workers, whom he will tell to be responsible with their jobs and savings, should they ever have these things again. [AP]
• The Senate will NOT be giving Obama’s friends the ACORNS any federal housing money, and the US Census doesn’t want their stupid help either, in counting people. [Reuters]

• “Days of Rage” sounds like it would have been a sweet Patrick Swayze movie. [New York Times]
• Democrats promise change and Republicans promise an end to Mexicans. [Washington Post, Washington Post]
• Listen, the Iraqis are pretty sharp people, we’re sure they’ll be able to figure out how to fight and whatever without us. [New York Times]
• Sudden Jihad Syndrome is a thing that some people want us to think is real. [Washington Times]
• Conservative courts? Bush Legacy? You don’t say. [Los Angeles Times]

One thing we can say about Obama is that he’s a real class act. [Politico]

• Huck sets money on fire because he don’t give a fuck. [Wonkette]