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He ended up scoring 20 points. It should make a great memory for him:

I have followed college basketball since I was a little kid, and I always wanted to play Division I basketball. When you think of college basketball, Kentucky is one of the first schools that come to mind — all the history, all the players and playing in Rupp Arena. This was a dream come true for me and most of my teammates.

As the game gets closer and closer, I think about all the hard work I put into becoming a college player, and I think about the unbelievable opportunity I have. There are only a select few who get to play in the historic Rupp Arena, and I am one of them.

I can’t wait until I hear 15,000 people screaming against me. I can’t wait until they call my name. I can’t wait until I get to touch that court. What a way to open my senior year with a chance of a lifetime.

Go sign the petition :

WHEREAS Senator Theodore Fulton Stevens has, during his 40 years in the U.S. Senate, established a notorious reputation for using Senate rules to benefit his friends and patrons at the expense of the taxpayers at large;

WHEREAS Senator Stevens has been identified by the non-partisan Club for Growth as one of "the Congress’ most notorious porkers";

WHEREAS Senator Stevens has shamelessly boasted that "I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me";

WHEREAS Senator Stevens was indicted on July 29, 2008, by a federal grand jury on SEVEN FELONY COUNTS of failing to report gifts received from VECO Corporation and its CEO Bill Allen;

WHEREAS Senator Stevens was found GUILTY on October 27, 2008 on ALL SEVEN FELONY COUNTS;

WHEREAS Senator Stevens has refused to resign from his Senate seat despite the guilty verdict; and

WHEREAS the United States Senate has the inherent power to remove Senator Stevens from the chamber and request that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin appoint a suitable replacement;

THE UNDERSIGNED HEREBY REQUEST that the leadership and members of the United States Senate remove Theodore Fulton Stevens from the Senate and that Governor Palin appoint a suitable replacement for Senator Stevens.

Jules Crittenden » Omerica:

I’m not interested in spending the next four years in bitterness, the way the opposition spent the last eight, and I trust America will still be here at the end of this term. Congratulations, Obama. It is a great country. It is yours to govern now, all hope and change in your hands. Hope and change are great, but try not to change it too much. Because I can assure you, it doesn’t get much better than this.

I really don't think he could have done much better. I would have preferred Romney, Thompson or Giuliani. I don't any of them would have done any worse. Next time, let's fix the primary system so that Republicans choose the nominee instead of Democrats and independents.

The best thing McCain did was to pick Sarah Palin. She is now the rock star of the party, the speaker everyone will want at their fundraiser for the next 4 years and the frontrunner for 2012 (for what that's worth, which is probably nothing).

Vietnam : Iraq

1974 : 2006

Carter : Obama

Several new, useless Cabinet-level Federal agencies : ?

Serious deterioration of military preparedness : ?

A naive foreign policy that punishes friends and appeases enemies : ?

I could go on, but I'll just do one more:

Reagan : ?

The election of Barack Obama should put an end to the idea that the USA is an especially racist nation. Racism is a universal human tendency and will never be eradicated, but there is no other place on Earth where this could have happened. One simple fact: in every state that I've seen polls from, Obama did as well or better than Kerry among white voters.

Keith Olbermann was a pretty entertaining guy on SportsCenter. He's spent the past decade or so fancying himself as a great opinion journalist, signing off with Edward R. Murrow's "Good night and good luck."

In reality, though, he reminds me much more of a left-wing Wally George or Morton Downey, Jr. , someone that is so over-the-top and creepy that they shouldn't really be taken seriously. In fact, most folks on the right consider it to be great fun to be honored as his "Worst Person in the World."

Pure, unadulterated religious bigotry:

Baseball Crank:

As I have said over and over: vote for the left-wing Democrat machine politician, if what you want is a left-wing Democrat machine politician, no more and no less. But really, if he wins, don't expect anybody, a year from now, to take seriously the idea that he was ever anything else.

That's about the only bright spot of the Obama credit card fraud story:

If you are keeping score at home, that's five different kinds of illegality that can come from reduced security on the web:

(1) Donations by foreign nationals

(2) Donations in excess of legal limits

(3) Identity theft/credit card fraud, resulting in donations of stolen funds

(4) Donations by domestic individuals not entitled to give money

(5) Donations by individuals whose identity may be embarrassing to the campaign

Moreover, it appears that - as has traditionally been true of voter fraud - it will be exceptionally difficult to follow the trail to apprehend the real donors, precisely because of the use of false or stolen identities. In fact, it may take some time to even get a handle on the scope of the problem.