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EDITORIAL
An Indecent Decision
by Matthew Continetti

SCRAPBOOK
Buckminster Fuller, Justice Anthony Kennedy

ARTICLES
Closing the Enthusiasm Gap
by Stephen F. Hayes

Very Retiring Republicans
by Fred Barnes

McCain, Obama, & the Catholic Vote
by Ryan T. Anderson

History's Fall Guys
by Dean Barnett

Shaken and Stirred Up
by Reuben F. Johnson

A Heaping Bowl of Mush
by Philip Terzian

Laughter at the Supreme Court
by Lee Ross

FEATURES
L'Affaire Enderlin
by Anne-Elisabeth Moutet

BOOKS & ARTS
Talking Politics
by Christopher Hitchens

Isn't That Special?
by Andrew Roberts

Boris the Good
by Andrew Nagorski

After the Fox
by Edward Short

Unholy Thoughts
by Stefan Beck

Speak the Speech
by Judy Bachrach

Rhymers' Dictionary
by John Simon

Keeping Score
by James M. Banner Jr.

Here's My Plan
by Matthew Continetti

Identity Theft
by Edith Alston

Cops on the Case
by Jon L. Breen

CASUAL
Lost in the Personasphere
by Andrew Ferguson

PARODY
Fred Flintstone wins McCain's eco-challenge


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Sunday Show Wrap-Up

As my colleagues noted earlier, Barack Obama made his long-awaited sojourn to Fox News Sunday. Barnett and Goldfarb hit on a couple of important topics, but the boss may have had the most succinct evaluation: An "elegant and attractive performance, but somewhat substance free." About the only thing of interest was Obama’s insistence on raising taxes on the upper-middle and upper class.

On This Week, meanwhile, Clinton-surrogate Evan Bayh laid out the groundwork for counting Florida’s vote in the overall popular vote. "Florida does count in terms of the popular vote. The DNC can choose not to seat the delegates, but they don’t have the right, by law, to not count the votes; the state of Florida counts the votes. They voted for state legislator, for state senator, for Congress . . . they voted to amend the state constitution! As a matter of law, those votes count, and the DNC can’t override state law." Clinton’s newfound lead is, literally, the worst case scenario for the Democrats--it creates the possibility of a convention in which the superdelegates will be forced to choose between a candidate who wisely gamed the system to rack up a big pledged delegate lead by taking caucus states and a candidate who won the most total votes.

Clinton advisor Howard Wolfson showed up on Face the Nation to sow seeds of doubt in the minds of the superdelegates on his boss’s trump card: Obama’s electability. "I think after significant losses in Ohio and Pennsylvania on behalf of Senator Obama," he said, "I think Democrats do have questions about whether or not he is going to be able to reach out and successfully win over the kind of blue-collar voters that Democrats need to win in order to take the White House back in November."

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