I’m grateful for all the generous comments, public and private, from folks who appreciate the role I played in meticulously exposing Goodwin Liu’s record and in refuting his defenders. (By my rough count, I wrote some 60 posts on the Liu nomination, as well as an early summary essay, totaling who knows how many tens of thousands of words. A selected repository of my writings is available at www.EPPC.org/Liu.)

I do want to emphasize, though, that there are lots of other people who played important roles—far too many to try to name. Among those who deserve special thanks are Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, former ranking committee member Jeff Sessions, current ranking committee member Chuck Grassley, all the committee Republicans, and a lot of great Senate staffers.

I also want to give special recognition to blogger Morgen of Verum Serum, whose cybersleuthing uncovered many of Liu’s most controversial and incendiary remarks—remarks that Liu had somehow failed to disclose to the committee.