Well, that's over. Kerry won by considerably more votes than I thought he would; I was thinking a 5-8 point margin. But on they go, leaving us here in NH alone for a few months.

Moving on. Interesting UPI story about Iraqi Oil Ministry documents linking oil money to politicians and businesses in Europe and the Arab world. I am shocked! Shocked that prominent French pols were taking Iraqi bribes! You mean that the French position against the war was not really about morality?

I must read this again and think it over: a spirited defense of Oliver Cromwell as a conservative.