Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska is now a convicted felon. I find it hard to believe that the voters will reward him with a victory next Tuesday, but stranger things have been known to happen.

Mona Charen thinks American Jews planning to vote for Barack Obama should consider Obama's past associations before making their choice. Amir Taheri explains why so many Arabs are rooting for an Obama victory.

A couple of white supremacist morons are accused of a plot to assassinate Barack Obama.

Blogger and columnist Dean Barnett has died. Bill Kristol remembers him fondly.

Investors are fleeing from the change offered by Obama. On the other hand, George Will finds a silver lining in all the bad economic news.

David Brooks explains why some social scientists are finally coming to grips with something many of us figured out without any special training, which is that human beings believe what they want to believe, despite all evidence to the contrary and despite the sometimes disastrous consequences of hewing to their misperceptions.

With the RealClearPolitics Electoral Map still showing the way to an Obama victory (even if McCain can eke out victories in North Carolina and Florida, it still looks like he will lose Virginia, Colorado and Ohio), Pat Buchanan speculates on what Obama's first hundred days as President will look like.

Anne Applebaum explains why she won't vote for McCain, even though she wishes he had won the GOP nomination and election in 2000.

Finally, check out this piece from The Weekly Standard about Obama, McCain, American Exceptionalism, and the ability to recognize evil and fight it, when necessary.