On this, the holiest day of the year for political junkies, certain stories are bound to fall through the cracks. Here are two that are well worth the read.


In Radar, Charles Kaiser offers perhaps the funniest, most spot-on critique of the New York Times’ decision to bring the Weekly Standard’s favorite fortunate son Bill Kristol to the Op-Ed page, and in one of the endless number of New York Times blogs, “Outposts,” Timothy Egan sticks with the topic of the day—the election—in looking at Mike Huckabee’s ability to make republican machers nervous.