Unlike a lot of Democrats, I like Little Green Footballs.  Charles Johnson is a terrific writer and is simply not wrong about the existence of serious and ongoing threats from the Arab and Islamic world toward the US, Israel, Europe, and others. But come on — settle on a message already. On the one hand, Islamist freaks are euphoric that Barack Obama...

Jed Lewison put together this extraordinary video of election night, from state-by-state projections to parts of Obama’s victory speech.  I didn’t watch any of Fox News’ coverage, so it’s remarkable to see just how depressed their reporters and anchors were as the evening wore on. Does anyone actually believe that Fox is a straight news...

This morning, I spoke to a (white) friend who immigrated to the US from South Africa.  He tells me that he’s having trouble deciding which meant more to him, his vote for Barack Obama or the one he cast  in 1994 for Nelson Mandela.

I’ve been more or less speechless all night.  A couple of weeks ago, Janice suggested I load up this clip for election night, so I did.  Frank Rich beat me to the punch in a column last week, but it’s still incredibly moving to watch this tonight:

From my brother in Brooklyn: