Ross Douthat on Matthew Continetti's " Two Faces of the Tea Party."

Iowahawk skewers Keith Olberman and the JournoList kids.

Chris Christie supports a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. Update: Christie clarifies that he does not, in fact, support a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants.

Dana Milbank: "[Kagan's] passion is to win confirmation after this week's hearings. And the surest path to that is to do exactly what she complained about previous nominees doing: being vapid."

Blagojevich on Obama:  "all take and no give."

Garrison Keillor's columns will temporarily be replaced by the writings of Robert Reich,  Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Ana Marie Cox.

Arizona congressional candidate Pamela Gorman wants you to know she likes to shoot guns.