Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-Up

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Richard Cohen apparently hired a ghost writer for the day as his column on pandering to the religious right makes a lot of sense.

E.J. Dionne wonders if history will repeat itself with the scores of judges appointed over the years of conservative rule, doing:

....exactly what conservative courts did for much of the New Deal era by using a narrow, 19th-century definition of property rights to void progressive economic, environmental and labor regulation.

David Brooks offers a laundry list of the type of big-money people who support Barack Obama versus John McCain. It seems that most of them lived in liberal suburbs and went to Berkeley or Harvard.

Thomas Schaller dismisses the idea that Barack Obama can win in places like Georgia, North Carolina and Mississippi. Virginia is a maybe.

Jonah Goldberg must be in pain today after the stretching he does to explain why a President Obama, if he "does his job right," will validate George Bush’s presidency.

William McGurn says that if John McCain plays his cards right, he can grab the mantle of JFK.

Bret Stephens warms the cockles of Jim Inhofe's heart with his look at global warming:

Last week marked the 20th anniversary of the mass hysteria phenomenon known as global warming. Much of the science has since been discredited. Now it's time for political scientists, theologians and psychiatrists to weigh in.