Mario Piperni: Speaking off-the-cuff, Cain flounders as badly as Palin.

Robert Socolow: Republicans distortion of science is less serious than their rejection of the scientific approach to knowledge.

PCTC: What matters is concrete results, not ideological purity.

Liberal values: Obama's foreign-policy successes show what he could be doing domestically if Republicans didn't have the power (seats in Congress) to obstruct him.

Blog round-up by Infidel753. Tips to mbru [at] crooksandliars [dot] com.