An eyewitness’ letter:

This was premeditated.  This wasn’t VBC again.  That guy snapped, not this one.  He was so damn calm when he was shooting.  Methodical.  And he was moving tactically.  The Army really is diverse and we really do love all our own.  We signed up to be shot at but not at home.  Not unarmed.  No one should ever see what the inside of that medical SRP building looked like.  I suppose that’s what VA Tech looked like.  Except they didn’t have soldiers coming from everywhere to tourniquet and compress and talk to the wounded while rounds are still coming out.

No one touched him…the shooter that is…other than to treat him.  Though I told the medic (and I’m not proud of this) that was giving him plasma that there better not be anyone else who needed it because he should be the last one to be treated.  But I had just finished holding a soldier who was critical (I counted three entry wounds) and talking to him about his children…. 

Unless I’m missing something—always a possibility, since I’m not a techhead—Motorola has Today’s column asks why liberals aren’t applying the precautionary principle—first, do no harm—to health-care reform.

Islamist violence leads to self-censorship: The disaster flick “2012” show the destruction of several iconic Christian structures, but fear of a fatwa led the director to spare showing an Islamic totem, the Kaaba, suffering a similar fate.

Hollywood remains pretty proud of itself for standing up to an ideological bully in the 1950s. Here’s hoping it starts showing some similar gumption now.

It’s in the Constitution. No, really. Congress is required to give every American a free bicycle. It’s right in the Preamble.

Just ask Sen. Roland Burris.

Sabato’s Crystal Ball has some more postgame analysis, including this:

Democratic National Committee Chairman and Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine is also high up on the list of losers. He presided over an electoral debacle in his own state. Unlike his predecessor, Gov. Mark Warner, he failed to prepare the way for a Democratic successor in Richmond and probably made a serious mistake in becoming chairman at all. It took him out of state too much and made him a partisan rather than a unifying figure. National ambitions have tripped up four of the last five Virginia governors. When you only have one four-year term, maybe the voters expect you to take care of business at home. Bob McDonnell might want to remember that when he is touted for the 2012 national GOP ticket.

Of another 9/11, that is? About 7 percent over the next 10 years, says one report.

Remember the Angry White Male? He’s the jerk who votes Republican, in contemporary mythology. As Charles Krauthammer put it—14 years ago now!—:

The Angry White Male, suitably capitalized to indicate that the menace has become a media-certified trend, stalks the land, or at least the land of the media. In the 10 years before the November election, there were 59 (Nexis) references to angry white men. There have been 1,400 since. A post-election front-page headline in USA Today was typical: “Angry White Men: Their votes turned the tide for the GOP.“

By sheer numbing repetition, the legend grows. “The Republicans scraped together a majority,“ explains the genial Garrison Keillor, “by appealing to the sorehead vote, your brother-in-law and mine.“ By early April, the term receives its official presidential seal of approval when Bill Clinton confirms that “this is psychologically a difficult time for a lot of white males, the so-called angry white males.“

Well, the narrative is holding—or at least the angry part, and we can assume the rest. When voters elected Obama, the public was in a joyful mood, or so we were told. Now that it’s voting Republican, it’s really “grumpy.“

It couldn’t be that certain reporters are projecting just the least little bit, could it?

Heavens no.

Time to reconvene that shark attack panel before it’s too late.

A friend writes that Deeds should have beat McDonnell four years ago, but didn’t because he’s a lousy candidate, which he just proved again. This prompts a random thought: Does anybody do fantasy political leagues? Could they? What would a race between George Allen and Tim Kaine look like? Or a McDonnell-Mark Warner contest, or a Gilmore-McAuliffe bout?

(I’m not the first person to trip over the notion . . .)

Boy, it sure was a horrible election night for the GOP, wasn’t it? You might think so judging by the way some of the results are being played. At this rate the party will be lucky if it lasts another week!

Today’s contest: Find the best example (from someone not employed by the Democratic Party) of an attempt to spin yesterday’s results as terrible news for the winners. . . .

Get your fixes here and here and here and here . . .

The Washington Post reports on a white chapter president of the NAACP, here. Classic Dave Chappelle skit about a blind, black white supremacist here. (Warning: contains satirical use of racial epithets and stereotypes.)

Nobody really expects politicians to keep their promises. The only real question is how fast they’ll break ‘em. For those trying to keep track, here’s a tally of how the current prez is coming along.

It’s not complete, alas. See here (rendition) and here (state secrets) and here (indefinite detention). . . .

Experts warn that we’re running out of Internet addresses. Have we heard this story before? I think we have!

Al Gore is doing well by doing good. And more power to him! But it seems unlikely Michael Moore would approve. . . . If capitalism is evil, venture capital is the root of all evil, no?

The WSJ’s James Taranto nails some examples in coverage of the Scozzafava brouhaha:

The Associated Press, reporting Saturday on Scozzafava’s withdrawal from the campaign, described the larger implications this way:

Some have called the race a test of the GOP’s future: whether traditional conservative ideology would lead the way forward or if a more inclusive approach would draw more people back to the party. . . .

The phrase: “too moderate” turns up four times in stories about Scozzafava on the New York Times Web site, three times in Times stories and once in an AP dispatch. . . . A Factiva search shows that in the 2006 Connecticut Senate campaign, neither the Times nor the AP ever described Joe Lieberman’s Democratic opponents as deserting him because he was “too moderate.“

“Pelosi’s press spokesman, Nadeam Elshami, clarified for the record that asking the speaker of the House to articulate the Constitutional authority for the [individual] health care mandate is not a serious question.”

McDonnell and Deeds Mostly Mum on How to Fund Their Ideas.

Why should they be different?

If you’re too busy to wade through all 1,900 pages of the House health-care bill, just count up the number of times the House bill uses the word “shall.“ (Hint: More than 3,000.)