When Tucker Carlson asked to join Journolist  —  I hoped to let my quick accounting of the constant inaccuracies in the Daily Caller's selective quotations from Journolist stand as my last word on the matter.  But Tucker Carlson's sanctimonious and evasive statement on the way his site has been covering this story deserves a response.

Breitbart: ‘I am public enemy No. 1...’  —  An unrepentant Andrew Breitbart told POLITICO on Thursday that the Obama administration and its allies have manufactured a controversy over the video he posted of Shirley Sherrod's speech to the NAACP as part of an orchestrated effort to take him down.

House Panel Will Try Rangel in Ethics Cases  —  WASHINGTON — A House investigative panel has found “substantial reason to believe” that Representative Charles B. Rangel violated a range of ethics rules, dealing a serious blow to Mr. Rangel, a Harlem Democrat, in the twilight of his political career.

Democrats Make $28 Million TV Buy  —  The Democrats' strategy to preserve their House majority became clearer Thursday as the party made a $28 million investment in television advertising for the final weeks of the fall campaign, a plan that is designed to build a firewall to protect freshmen and longtime incumbents.

Addicted to Bush  —  For a couple of years, it was the love that dared not speak his name.  In 2008, Republican candidates hardly ever mentioned the president still sitting in the White House.  After the election, the G.O.P. did its best to shout down all talk about how we got into the mess we're in …

Democrats pull plug on climate bill  —  Senate Democrats pulled the plug on climate legislation Thursday, pushing the issue off into an uncertain future ahead of midterm elections where President Barack Obama's party is girding for a drubbing.  —  Rather than a long-awaited measure capping greenhouse gases …

Bachmann: ‘All We Should Do Is Issue Subpoenas’ If GOP Wins House (AUDIO)  —  Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has a plan for what the Republicans should do if they win control of the House of Representatives: Spend all their time investigating the Obama administration.

Who Will Pay for the Afghan Military?  The Question Congress Must Answer Now  —  An old military maxim states, “Amateurs think about strategy and professionals think about logistics.”  At West Point I taught cadets the U.S. Constitution, which clearly empowers Congress to be active in logistic questions of war.

President Obama Said Sec. Tom Vilsack ‘Jumped the Gun’ on Shirley Sherrod's Ouster  —  President Obama said Secretary Tom Vilsack rushed to judgment when he dismissed Shirley Sherrod from the Department of Agriculture amid charges of racism.  —  “He jumped the gun, partly because we now live …

Alvin Greene's ‘On the Scene’  —  Alvin Greene, the Democratic candidate for Senate in South Carolina, who emerged at a public campaign event for the first time last weekend, is now out with his first campaign video.  The video, called, “Alvin Green Is On the Scene,” is a 3-minute hip-hop mix …

Sharron Angle addresses media for 3 minutes on taxes then bolts  —  SPARKS — After more than a month dodging the press, Republican Senate nominee Sharron Angle on Wednesday invited reporters to an event intended to amplify her campaign message that lower taxes and less regulation are the only ways to spur economic recovery.

Pentagon Faces Intensifying Pressures to Trim Budget  —  WASHINGTON — After nearly a decade of rapid increases in military spending, the Pentagon is facing intensifying political and economic pressures to restrain its budget, setting up the first serious debate since the terrorist attacks …

Russian ‘spy’ Anna Chapman gets her own action figure, plastic doll of sexy secret agent now on sale  —  She's the Russian Barbie.  —  Sexy secret agent Anna Chapman may have been deported, but she's now available on U.S. soil in fully jointed plastic.  —  The doll manufacturer Herobuilders.com …

Why the ObamaCare Tax Penalty Is Unconstitutional  —  The federal power to tax is not unlimited, as the Supreme Court recognized when it struck down the first national income tax.  —  The Justice Department announced last week that it would defend the new federal health-insurance mandate …

Obama Campaign Adviser Participated on JournoList  —  Jared Bernstein, chief economist for Vice President Joseph Biden, served in 2008 as an economic adviser to the Obama campaign.  At the same time, he was a member of JournoList, the controversial progressive email list.

Plurality of voters believe the country would have been better off if John McCain had beaten Mr. Obama in 2008  —  Democrats will be gulping this morning at the Quinnipiac Poll's latest results.  For the first time in the survey's history, Americans believe by a 48% to 40% margin that President Obama doesn't deserve re-election.

Feinberg Says Bonuses Paid by Troubled Banks Were Unmerited  —  With the financial system on the verge of collapse in late 2008, a group of troubled banks doled out more than $2 billion in bonuses and other payments to their highest earners.  Now, the federal authority on banker pay …

This week's Economist/YouGov poll  —  SOME highlights from this week's Economist/YouGov poll:  —  • Let's start with the fun stuff.  Here are some very early numbers on possible Republican candidates in the 2012 presidential race.  (Keep in mind that Barack Obama wasn't even included in polls at this point in the 2008 race.)