Trouble keeping track of all the health care lawsuits out there challenging the constitutionality of the new reform law? Brian Beutler has put together a quick and easy guide for you.

The federal offshore drilling moratorium may end as soon as this week, Robert Gibbs told reporters a short time ago.

George Soros is no more bullish than anyone else on Dems’ prospects this November, having shifted his giving away from electoral politics in advance of the anticipated Republican wave: “I’m not in a position to stop it. I don’t believe in standing in the way of an avalanche.”

Jon Stewart talks Nazis, whores, and other “unforced errors” of the midterm campaigns. Watch.

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Rich Iott’s latest line on the Waffen SS unit he reenacts: “I don’t think we can sit here and judge” them.

Really? SS units on the Eastern front? I’ll sign up to judge them.

Just for the record it’s worth noting that there’s a significant taxonomy of Nazi Germany’s soldiery. First you have men serving in the German regular army, the Wehrmacht. Then there were militarized SS formations, actually part of the Nazi party, the Waffen SS. Then there was duty on the Eastern front, where the Nazis followed a much more barbaric approach to war than they did on the Western front – and where casualties were vastly higher on both sides. Then on top of all that there were the Waffen SS divisions recruited from non-German volunteers. That’s the category of the ‘Wiking’ division Rich Iott is into. So these were the folks who weren’t conscripted and weren’t even German but thought the whole National Socialism thing was such a great idea that they signed up voluntarily, as even sub-German master race junior partners. (The recruits for Wiking were from Scandinavia, the Netherlands and the Baltics.) I mean, that’s dedication!

In any war and in any army you’re going to find a range of people, behaviors and beliefs, but if you’re looking for a part of the World War II German war machine to rehabilitate the ordinary soldiers, this is not where you’d start. To put it mildly.

Sharron Angle raised a staggering $14 million in the third quarter for her campaign against Harry Reid.

Meanwhile, Democrats still try to decide whether to nationalize the election? The $14 million didn’t all come from Nevada folks. This election is nationalized whether you like it or not.

TPM Reader MH responds to the post below:

Well, it’s also fair to point out that, as Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid is a national political figure in a way that other House Reps are not. So his name, and therefore his race is subject to national debate and demagoguery (and fundraising) similar to the way Nancy Pelosi would be.

So it may be more accurate to consider the national character of SOME of the races rather than considering them all in the same way…

I think that’s right.

As you know, with the ‘voter integrity’/voter fraud bamboozlement crew, the real scourge is the dread of VWB (aka Voting While Black). And it sounds like Mark Kirk in Illinois might have gotten caught on tape making the point a touch too explicit. Our report in a moment.