The much greater problem with Valerie Jarrett’s comments is that they reveal Jarrett to be unfamiliar with the discourse in the LGBT community for the past 40 years.

After Alan Grayson released an ad calling his opponent “Taliban Dan,” there was a lot of silly hand-wringing on the left about how misleading and unfair it was. Same thing’s happening again with a Jack Conway attack ad on Rand Paul.

Just days after a new report (pdf) was released, providing further evidence that torture of detainees in Afghanistan continues at the “secret” site at Bagram Air Base, Reuters informs us that a detainee in NATO custody has been “found dead” in his cell.

It appears that Carly Fiorina is Christine O’Donnell with less Jesus and more work history.

The Pentagon has a full task force ready to review the latest from Wikileaks, a document dump of up to 500,000 documents about the war in Iraq. The release could come as soon as today, though perhaps not until next week. Whatever the case, the media trajectory of the document release will probably follow the release of Afghan war docs in July: a day of prurient interest, with war defenders claiming that they are “no big deal”; followed by a full-court press from the military that the documents harmed national security, and a parroting of this in the media. I don’t know how something can be both unimportant and deeply injurious to American interests, but that was the move in July. Meanwhile, we now know that the previous leak did not reveal any sensitive intelligence or cause any undue harm on anyone in Afghanistan.

At a town hall meeting Sunday afternoon in Anchorage, U.S. Senate campaign GOP nominee Joe Miller was asked a long question on how we should keep illegal immigrants out.

His short answer: “If East Germany can do it, we can do it!”

In addition to reserving the decision for itself of who gets prosecuted or not for fraud on courts and torture, the Administration is also arbitrarily choosing who gets prosecuted for leaks.

In the name of saving a buck, the mega-banks used this tiny company MERS, a firm with almost no employees. They entrusted it with 60 million of the nation’s mortgages on its system – 60% of all mortgages in the United States – to predictable results.

• Dodging the press is one thing — but handcuffing them?
• Republicans: still not wild about science.
• See above.
• Reading the midterm tea leaves.
• Another phony fiscal conservative, exposed.

Two Parties, unlearned and underwhelming.