Jon Favreau can make anybody feel like a failure, because he is super young and successful and takes excellent transcription notes from President Obama’s Teleprompter. If you’re an aspiring young speechwriter, you look at him and go “Shit by the time he was my age he was already FAMOUS” and if you are an old libtard you just think, “Enh, too late for me to do anything with my life.” MORE »

Ruh roh, did someone say something bad about Hillary Clinton on this site? That’s not what the Journalistic Reporters should be doing at all! We must have been in a grumpy mood, or something, and now an e-mailing monster is calling us out: “YOU CAN BET YOUR BOTTOM DOLLAR THAT HILLARY IS ALIVE AND WELL.” What else can we bet our bottom dollar on, and does it require a sub-prime mortgage? MORE »

You’d never know it by reading National Review today, but that conservative magazine used to be an important, interesting and intellectual journal. That’s because William F. Buckley Jr., who died early this morning at the ripe old age of 82, was a hell of a writer (but a crappy novelist). He also had famous eyebrows, as the New York Times notes in its obituary. MORE »

It is the greatest mystery of Our Time: Why is Christopher Hitchens still admired by so many even after he was bamboozled by an utterly manufactured “Islamo-Fascist” nemesis that gave Dick Cheney’s paymasters an open-ended no-bid contract to invade and seize oil-producing lands unfriendly to Western energy needs? MORE »

• Iraq war to be central issue in November, “it’s the other guy’s fault” speeches to intensify over next two months. [WP, NYT]

• Ohio preserving paper ballots from 2004 presidential election to “study irregularities.” [NYT]
• California to have strongest limits on greenhouse gasses in nation, and initiate “a 25 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 2020.” [NYT, LAT, W$J]
• New Pentagon report reveals soldiers’ financial problems, use of predatory loan services. [USAT]
• Iran set to ignore today’s nuclear fuel production deadline, US set to push sanctions through UN. [NYT]
• Amount of nicotine in cigarettes up as much as 36% between 1998 and 2004, no word from cigarette companies on how that happened. [WP]
• Egyptian novelist and Nobel prize winner Naguib Mahfouz died yesterday at the age of 94. [WP]

Dear Washington: MORE »