Gore Vidal: 'We'll have a dictatorship soon in the US'  —  The grand old man of letters Gore Vidal claims America is ‘rotting away’ — and don't expect Barack Obama to save it  —  A conversation with Gore Vidal unfolds at his pace.  He answers questions imperiously, occasionally playfully, with a piercing, lethal dryness.

Newsmax removes column that called for military coup to resolve the ‘Obama problem.’  —  In a column published on the right-wing site Newsmax yesterday, John L. Perry writes that a military coup against President Obama is possible.  Newsmax appears to have taken down the column from its website this morning.

Is today Military Dictatorship Day?  ; Update: Newsmax removes column  —  In case anyone thinks that one side of the political spectrum has a monopoly on paranoid ranters, we present today's offering from Gore Vidal (Left) and John Perry (Right) on the coming American military dictatorship.

Newsmax columnist: Military coup “to resolve the ‘Obama problem’ ” is not “unrealistic”  —  From John L. Perry's September 29 Newsmax column: … UPDATE: Newsmax has removed the column.  More here.  And here's a copy of the column Newsmax removed.

The Polanski Case  —  Roman Polanski was arrested on Saturday at the Zurich airport on an American-issued warrant.  But to hear the protests from the French, the Poles and other Europeans, you might have thought the filmmaker was seized by some totalitarian regime for speaking truth to power.

Applebaum blames the victim for the rape  —  Yesterday, I just considered Anne Applebaum to have a conflict of interest over Roman Polanski's arrest in Switzerland.  After her response to criticism for failing to disclose her husband's efforts to get charges dropped against the director …