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Democrat Al Franken yesterday increased his small lead over Republican Norm Coleman in the protracted dispute over the race for a U.S. Senate seat representing Minnesota, but it remains unclear when the five-month legal battle will end. A state court ordered more than 300 absentee ballots that had previously been excluded to be counted yesterday, […]

Steven Malanga writes: “President Obama is not a socialist. If his agenda harks back to anything, it is to corporatism, the notion that elite groups of individuals molded together into committees or public-private boards can guide society and coordinate the economy from the top town and manage change by evolution, not revolution.” Read it.

Following shocking suicide of his character on Fox’s “House M.D.” Kal Penn, better known to current generations of college-age students as Kumar, is splitting Hollywood for new job as associate director in the White House Office of Public Liaison. An instant DC celeb, Penn will have to cope with tourists, townies, and OEOB foodstuffs.

“In nearly 25 years on the bench, I’ve never seen anything approaching the mishandling and misconduct that I’ve seen in this case,” says District Judge Emmet Sullivan in throwing out Ted Stevens’ conviction, orders inquiry into behavior of the prosecution. Lesson: Civil servant lawyers prosecuting a Republican in a GOP administration knew they were bulletproof.