Let's see what the WaPo's got: • Andreas Umland: Putin's successor is going to be totally awesome. • Anne Applebaum: I would like to fake my own death, but fear it would be too much trouble. (The link's right here, read it yourself if you don't believe me. It's a very weird op-ed.) • Roger Cohen: Oprah>Barbara Streisand. • George Will: I do not, in fact, hold particularly positive views towards the Federal Elections Commission. • Eugene Robinson: "I'd be lying if I didn't acknowledge that the whole idea of America electing a black president still seems improbable to me. But no longer impossible." • EJ Dionne: In the must-read of the page, Dionne takes a closer look at the "split-level" politics of immigration, and notes that the xenophobic rhetoric endangers Republicans on the national level, where Hispanics can swing critical states, but may threaten Democrats on the Congressional level, where it resonates in districts with minuscule numbers of Latino voters.
