... in a terrorist assassination plot." (AP) [I had to break up the quote between headline and body.]

Nice use of the subjunctive. I can tell Ann's a real writer.

... when a customer said "Hey, where's my change?"

From Lydia Cornell, a report of some conservative political action:

As we all know, Ann Coulter's protruberant Adam's Apple called John Edwards a faggot at the conservatives' annual Konklave, CPAC. But you'd never know that from Beltway Teabagger Adam Nagourney's "coverage". Here's what he writes about Le Coulter's slur:

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Of course, Nagourney does "report" that the audience thought Willard Mitt Romney was terrific:

“[Romney] knocked this speech out of the park,” said Paloma A. Zepeda, a marketing consultant and conservative blogger who said she came into the room with “serious doubts” about Mr. Romney, and left saying she was leaning toward supporting him. By contrast, she said, Mr. Giuliani “took a risk by coming to C.P.A.C., and he managed to not allay a single conservative fear about a Giuliani candidacy.”

So, faced with the opportunity to actually ask a conservative a challenging question what does Nags do?

At the biggest conservative conference of the year.

Can we all just STFU about Civility now?

Thank you.

But look on the even brighter side: