NYDN

Norman Hsu gets 24 years in jail for campaign finance scam

WaPo

High Court to Examine Local Handgun Laws

Gallup

More Independents Lean GOP; Party Gap Smallest Since ‘05

Why Congress’ healthcare plan isn’t like the public option

ABC News has published a report on the healthcare coverage perks members of Congress receive that most Americans do not:
This fall while members of Congress toil in the U.S. Capitol, working to decide how or even whether to reform the country’s health care system, one floor below them an elaborate Navy medical clinic — described [...]

Wednesday Open Thread

My new tower is here, and I’m doing the happy dance.

I could probably attempt to use the laptop to liveblog the tower unveiling/set up, but in the event of troubles or minor glitches, I’d have to “clean up” my language before I liveblogged the moment, so I better just stay focused on getting it [...]

Pre-orders for “Going Rogue” now being taken

Here’s the Amazon link, and the Barnes and Noble link for Palin’s new book, which will be available on 11/17.
Via JWF, who notes that the book is already #1 at B&N and #2 at Amazon.

Whoopi Goldberg: What Polanski did was not “rape-rape”

Her comments, blathered Monday on The View, pretty much speak for themselves:
I know it wasn’t rape-rape… All I’m trying to get you to understand, is when we’re talking about what someone did, and what they were charged with, we have to say what it actually was not what we think it was…
Initially he was charged [...]

AP

Guns allowed in Arizona bars starting Wednesday

Quinn Uni.

Corzine Creeps Up On Christie

Bogus quotes and the WaPo

Gary Larson (not the cartoonist) writes about how one WaPo journalist fabricated a quote out of whole cloth on an article about the duo involved in videotaping ACORN employees giving advice on how to how to evade taxes and hide child sex slaves, and how the “correction” issued by the paper doesn’t pass the smell [...]