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As of today, Unhinged is ranked 18th in book purchases at Amazon (click the box in the upper-right-hand sidebar to see the latest rank and "reviews"). That may be why they're so angry: assuming it would flop, liberals immediately proclaimed it a failure, while trumpeting Al Franken's The Truth (With Jokes). After peaking in the top five, it's now sitting in 10th place. In coming days, Malkin could very well surpass Franken. That's despite a huge number of mainstream media Frankenfluffy reviews, while Michelle's book is largely ignored (as are most by conservative authors). She doesn't get to appear on...

The departures of Jim Jeffords (I-VT) and Paul Sarbanes (D-MD) will result in competitive US Senate elections in 2006 in two states where Republicans are not historically strong, though the special circumstances that apply to those seats make them within reach of the GOP. The former will have special meaning for Republicans since its occupant unilaterally handed control of the US Senate to the opposing party from 2001 to 2003. Because the Republicans enjoyed a historic victory in the 2002 midterms, the actions of the Benedict Arnold from the home of Ethan Allen had limited implications, aside from giving the...