Say you're minding your own business on an early-Autumn Sunday evening in lovely White Plains, when a man you've never met before approaches with raised fist. Do you meekly submit to whatever he intends to do, or defend yourself when he starts thrusting said fist at you? In HUSSEIN OBAMA'S AMERIKA, rejecting an unsolicited terrorist fist jab could land you behind bars, as 30-year-old Ethan Stewart discovered the other night. more ›

In its roundup of the top ten media blunders of 2008, Politico's Michael Calderone puts the New Yorker "Politics of Fear" cover at #8 (between the mainstream media's reluctance to acknowledge the National Enquirer's reports of John Edwards' affair and how VP guessing was out of control). Calderone writes, "The Zabar’s set were in on the joke. But some didn’t see the humor in the illustration of Barack and Michelle Obama sharing a terrorist fist-jab and dressed, respectively, as a Muslim and Angela Davis-style black radical, with an Osama bin Laden painting on the mantle and an AK-47 leaning against the fireplace, in which burned the American flag." But he adds that, after the uproar, things ended up okay: "[New Yorker writer] Lizza and editor David Remnick — whose excellent piece on Obama in the same issue was largely overlooked in the ensuing dustup — are working on books dealing with Obama." Plus, Obama won. more ›