Matthew Yglesias: Remember when John McCain's big criticism of Barack Obama was that he didn't take enough foreign trips?

First Draft: Why the NOAH scandal matters

WallStreetJackass: New stock market terms

The Brad Blog: Karl Rove has threatened a GOP high-tech guru and his wife, if he does not "'take the fall' for election fraud in Ohio," according to a letter sent this morning to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, by Ohio election attorney Cliff Arnebeck.

Jon Swift: I'm not sure that having surrogates run over Obama partisans is the most efficient way of winning the election.

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