NRO hosts a symposium of top political commentators and entertains their predictions for tonight.

Deroy Murdock highlights some of the best ideas Republican candidates have for slashing the budget.

Kathryn Jean Lopez interviews Jay Cost, a professional electoral horseracer.

Andy McCarthy describes what needs to be done to bring justice to al-Qaeda.

Derbyshire diarizes October, remembers Benoit Mandelbrot, and reveals the most depressing poet in the English language.

Daniel Pipes chronicles the (necessarily secretive) birth of Germany’s Freiheit (Freedom) party, formed to stand athwart Islamization.

Dennis Prager explains why, today, it makes more sense to vote for the party than for the person.

Thomas Sowell remembers an FDR cabinet member who saw through New Deal economics long ago.

Mona Charen recounts the worst incidents of bureaucratic corruption this year, and derives a political lesson.