Now why do you suppose Robert Luskin went to the trouble of orchestrating a limited hang-out in the NYT and WaPo yesterday?

Senator Al Franken has the proper manners of a party stalwart.

The House just put another $2 billion into the wildly popular Cash for Clunkers program; presumably, the Senate will follow suit before they leave today.

From the comments made during the House discussion on this, it sounds like the program was wildly more successful than even reported yesterday–largely because (in spite of an arguably crappy design) it is working to do what it’s supposed to:

The military infiltration of peace groups in Washington makes me worried that the spy ring now being prosecuted in San Diego was used as a model for the expansion of fusion centers.

NYT took three reporters to liveblog the beer summit. AP took eight to write their article on it.

Athenae notes that the NYT had three people–three reporters!!–live-blogging the “beer summit.”

The Cash for Clunkers program has already supported the trade in of 250,000 cars.

The WaPo reveals that they had an hour-long interview with Karl Rove earlier this month–at which he tried to spin his role in the US Attorney firings. Apparently, though, his spin was debunked by documents the WaPo received.

The CIA doesn’t want you to know that its top-secret PDB sessions include discussions of what Scientologists have gotten personal meetings with the Vice President’s Chief of Staff.

There are three irreducible minimums emanating from the arrest of Henry Louis Gates at his home in Cambridge Massachusetts. First, it was an illegal and unconstitutional arrest. Second, it may or may not (my inclination is not, at least at the outset) have been a racially motivated moment. Third, it is an event that has become embedded in the national consciousness from which the nation could learn and