Harvard’s pet conservative offers a critique of the Democratic Party that reads like something from the OTB comments section.

One of West Point’s first female graduates has married her long-time girlfriend at the Cadet Chapel.

In “Eyes on the Prize,” Chuck Culpepper looks at Saban’s first season as a head coach, with Toledo, way back in 1989-90. It seems that Nick Saban has been Nick Saban for a very long time.

Jovan Belcher, a linebacker with the Kansas City Chiefs, this morning murdered the mother of their 3-month-old baby before killing himself.

US military drones are crashing at civilian airports around the world.

Ron Fournier details how Bill Clinton and George W. Bush taught him how to understand his son, Tyler, who has Asperger’s syndrome.

NPR’s Julie Rovner makes a novel argument: Raising the Medicare eligibility age would actually increase the cost of Medicare.

The best single means of becoming such an economic winner is to gain admission to a top university

There aren’t enough readers who want political reporting that’s “more substantive than POLITICO and much more sophisticated than C.Q.” and willing to pay for it.

The Republican Party needs a new message on foreign policy that is true to the conservative principles of the base and yet has a broad appeal to the American public.

Prince Charles has been waiting for his mom to die for a very long time.

The “makers vs takers,” “the 99 percent vs. the 1 percent,” and “53 percent vs. 47 percent” memes are getting tiresome.

Fareed Zakaria declares “America’s election process an international embarrassment.” He’s right.

Charlie Murphy, Eddie’s funny brother, has some interesting thoughts on racism and free speech in an interview with Esquire.

A pointillist look at the 2012 election results, which does a fairer job of illustrating where, how many, and how people voted in the election

Kevin Clash was falsely accused of having sex with an underage boy. He merely had sex with a boy who was too young.

There’s been a bit of buzz of late about the fact that people in several states have filed petitions to secede from the Union. There shouldn’t be.

The Republican Party needs more than outreach to Hispanics to become a viable national party again.

Obama thinks he has a mandate to raise taxes on high earners. Republicans think they have a mandate to stop him.

As is often the case with sex scandals, pretty much everything ever written about General David Petraeus takes on an ironic double meaning in hindsight.

The scandal that led to P4’s downfall has many layers, none of them flattering to the most famous American general of his generation.

A passenger praying in the aisles will apparently get your plane priority landing privileges.

Tthere’s enough bad punditry going around that there’s no need to invent cases to expose.

If you’re a white Southerner who gets most of his information from Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, you probably don’t know a lot of people who voted for Barack Obama.

Why I supported Mitt Romney despite his constant flip-flopping, fibbing, and fecklessness.

An ode to one-term Congressman Allen West.

President Obama easily won re-election last night, carrying virtually all of the battleground states. Meanwhile, abortion, gay marriage, and recreational marijuana also won big.

As most rational observers expected, President Obama has carried Pennsylvania, like every Democratic nominee four the last five cycles before him.

In a posting for New Atlanticist titled “Status Quo Election,” I note the near total absence of foreign affairs from a presidential campaign that’s mercifully coming to an end.

Trending on Twitter this morning: “R.I.P. Paul Davis. The Navy Seal who killed Osama Bin Laden died in battle today. Retweet to honor him.”

Posting pictures of your ballot to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram is a crime in some parts of America.

If we elected presidents by a national telephone survey using Gallup’s likely voter screen, Mitt Romney would be a happy man.

In a silly quadrennial tradition, the residents of Dixville Notch, New Hampshire voted at midnight. It was a tie.

The bromance between President Obama and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has now become a love triangle with the addition of Bruce Springsteen.

Democrats Barack Obama and Tim Kaine have gained momentum in Virginia in weekend polling.

Barack Obama’s Washington is more foul-mouthed and course, according to no evidence whatsoever.

President Obama is likely to win re-election while overwhelmingly losing the white vote. Does it matter?

Could Romney win Ohio by ginning up Republican turnout and tamping down Democratic votes?

OTB bloggers give their best guesses on the House and Senate races.

The OTB gang give their best guess at the outcome of the 2012 presidential contest.

Utility crews from Alabama traveled to New Jersey to help get the power back on. They were turned away on account of not being unionized.

Mayor Bloomberg has decided to hold the New York Marathon Sunday even though millions are still without power and the city infrastructure is unable to cope with normal activity.

How Obama can have a 75 percent chance of winning an election despite being essentially tied in the polls: