With one little word in Kausfiles, Independent Sources has had its best day ever. When Mickey Kaus posted this:

4:25 P.M.
Why Southern California Suffers: Could the LAT really have been granted coveted access to Kerry’s military records and not reported the part about his grades? Why, yes! … Sen. Stennis had nothin’ on Times reporter Stephen Braun. … Or maybe the LAT’s editors decided we didn’t really need to read about that–too interesting! …

… our traffic spiked immediately. Our stats package has had to rescale its y-axis, so now all the days we slaved over posts to get little bumps in visitor count look as flat as the Mojave. In the last six hours we’ve had visitors from the U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Supreme Court (at 8pm EDT … back to work, law clerks!), Chicago Tribune, and the target of the post, the LA Times.

We obviously got lucky … Mickey’s been tweaked by the LAT’s news judgment this week, and during Democratic primary season last year he tried to create an anybody-but-Kerry bandwagon, so our post taking the Times to task for ignoring the story about Kerry’s grades — when other national newspapers ran with it — must have hit some hot buttons.

We hope to one day be granted another visit from a godlike being like Mickey, but for now, it’s back to our natural position in the blogo-ecosystem.

Meanwhile, use the categories to the right to look at some of our other work. If you like what we’re doing, come back, or add our RSS feed to your aggregator.

Thanks, everyone!

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