Linkpost: 04/17/09
- Tax Day fix requires more than 'tea parties' (John Kass, Chicago Tribune)
- 10 years later, the real story behind Columbine (Greg Toppo, USA Today)
- There He Goes Again! Kmiec's Latest Obamapology (Matthew Franck, Moral Accountability)
- Now we're just haggling over his price (Brothers Judd) He's a pretty cheap faux-lifer, but maybe he got a tingle up his leg. *shrug*
- Brave New Barbarism (George Neumayr, TAS)
- And Spengler is... (Spengler, Asia Times)
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Linkpost: 04/13/09
- Bad ideas are the result when good ideas are plundered (Texas Republic News)
- Planned Parenthood Matters (Kathryn Jean Lopez, NRO)
- Kill the Pirates (Fred C. Iklé, WaPo)
- Obama's 'Post-Material' Economy (Robert J. Samuelson, WaPo)
- Everyone should pay income taxes (Ari Fleischer, WSJ)
- The Free World Bars Free Speech (Jonathan Turley, WaPo)
- Surviving in Obama's post-US world (Caroline Glick, RCP)
- The Great Left Smear Machine (Rowan Scarborough, Human Events)
- The End of Private Health Insurance (WSJ)
- As American as little Bangladesh (Gregory Rodriguez, LA Times)
- Nice self-caricature (Brothers Judd)
- Scholars on the Sidelines (Joseph Nye, WaPo) Having an unhealthy interest in policy is generally not a recipe for success in academia. Ask my old prof Jay Greene how well that worked at UH.
- He Said, She Said Journalism: Lame Formula in the Land of the Active User (Jay Rosen, Press Think)
- Making old media new again (L. Gordon Crovitz, WSJ)
- Obama to allow travel, money transfers to Cuba (Jennifer Loven, AP) My eventual trip to Cuba seems as if it won't have that thrill of lawbreaking!
- American tourists at home in Cuba (Tracy Wilkinson, LA Times)
- Call of Islam fades for Indonesian voters (John Aglionby, FT)
- Chavez accused of power grab (Benedict Mander, FT)
- Sri Lanka's war: Out of the Tigers' cage (Economist)
- Nigeria: What if the president goes? (Economist)
- In Indonesian election, secular parties confirm appeal (Simon Montlake, CSM)
- Persian New Year to bring U.S.-Iran thaw? (Scott Peterson, CSM)
- Central African Republic cattle fair dispute kills 20 (BBC News)
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Linkpost: 04/05/09
- Jim nauseam (Steven Stark, Boston Phoenix)
Yes, both made some missteps in their first few months. But the truth is a president could do a lot worse than Jimmy Carter in his first 100 days. In fact, Obama already has.
- The Peter Principle Lives (Robert Sutton, BusinessWeek)
- Obama's attack machine (Kimberley Strassel, WSJ)
- Against Narrowcasting: Radio as it was and might yet be (Mark Gauvreau Judge, Books and Culture)
- Iraq journal, part one: My arrival in Sulaimani, Kurdistan (Jerry Weinberger, City Journal) I still desperately want to go visit Kurdistan.
- Can Pakistan Be Governed? (James Traub, NY Times Mag)
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Linkpost: 03/30/09
- Will NPR Save the News? (Anya Kamenetz, Fast Company)
- Socializing media in order to save it (Adam Thierer, City Journal)
- The New York Times on the Precipice (Mark Bowden, Vanity Fair)
- The economics of newspapers are so screwed up (Brothers Judd)
- The Civil Heretic - Freeman Dyson (Nicholas Dawidoff, NY Times)
- Radio-Free Swat Valley (Douglas J. Feith & Justin Polin, WSj)
- The Real Afghan Issue Is Pakistan (Graham Allison & John Deutch, WSJ)
- Obama's False Choice (Mark Steyn, NRO)
- Learning the hard way (Economist)
- What happens if your 15 minutes are up but you still have four years to serve? (Brothers Judd)
- Don't blame you, don't blame me, blame that fella behind that tree (Brothers Judd)
- Cap and trade war (WSJ)
- Take Away Restaurant Fail (Fail Blog)
- The Nature of Government (David Henderson, EconLog)
- Robert Parker's Bitch (Josh Hermsmeyer/PinotBlogger) Be sure to watch the video.
Posted by Kevin Whited on 30 March 2009, 10:15 PM | Comments (0)
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Linkpost: 03/17/09
- Why KIPP schools work (Jay Mathews, City Journal)
- Breaking the Gridlock on How We Pay for Roads (Fred Hiatt, WaPo) We don't want to pay for the basics. It's more important to pols to pay off special interest groups and engage in wealth redistribution while the country's infrastructure falls apart.
- The Brokest Generation (Mark Steyn, NRO)
- Bear Stearns: The Fed's Original 'Systemic Risk' Sin (James Freeman, WSJ)
- Massachusetts Faces Costs of Big Health Care Plan (Kevin Sack, NY Times)
- New Progressive America? A response to Ruy Teixeira (Jay Cost, RCP)
- Obama tightens reins on capital (Manu Raju & Mike Allen, Politico)
- The Republicans can take heart as Barack Obama staggers to the Left (Janet Daley, Telegraph) The country, not so much.
- Does Obama know what he's doing? (Dick Morris & Eileen McGann, RCP)
- Cramer v. Stewart (Mark Hemingway, NRO)
Posted by Kevin Whited on 17 March 2009, 10:07 PM | Comments (0)
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Linkpost: 03/09/09
- Obama's radicalism is killing the DOW (Michael Boskin, WSJ)
- Obama's Radical Scheme Puts Country At Risk While Financial System Collapses (Michael Barone, US News)
- Obama and the schools: It's time to stand up to the teachers' unions (WSJ) The next time Obama stands up to a libDem interest group will be the first.
- Who pays for cap and trade? (WSJ) We all do!
- The Great Destabilization (Mark Steyn, NRO)
- President Obama's Double Talk (Robert Samuelson, WaPo)
- Obama's search for an enemy (Michael Goodwin, NY Daily News)
- Not quite like being the 100th Senator (Brothers Judd)
- The Obama Moment (Russell Saltzman, First Things)
- Obama's Left Turn (Stuart Taylor, National Journal)
- The great non sequitur (Charles Krauthammer, WaPo)
- Geithner, With Few Aides, Faces a Wave of Challenges (Edmund Andrews & Stephen Labaton, NY Times) So can any of the media cheerleaders now admit it wasn't the smoothest transition in history (you know, like they reported), and in fact one of the most important executive offices remains barely staffed?
- Why Do Conservatives Eat Their Own? (Lone Star Times) Hmm, kind of a funny question from the folks who shriek "RINO" at anyone who doesn't meet the definition of a KDAN Conservative.
- On Going Galt (WillWilkinson.net)
- A Toast To Roses & Tangerines (Cepage Noir)
March 2008 came so quickly. That month began to mark a world that remains completely unexplainable for me. I look back to a time now only two years past and I can barely recognize the man in the mirror.
Obviously it's not my livelihood on the line, but maybe March 2008 didn't mark a sea change in people so much as a reaction to a slowing economy? People look for bargains when the economy slows.
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Linkpost: 03/05/09
- They can at least give us tips on how to avoid paying our taxes (Brothers Judd) Nice!
- Why I miss Bill Clinton (Steve Chapman, RCP)
- Obama's safety net: the TelePrompter (Carol E. Lee, Politico)
- Presidential bait-and-switch (Karl Rove, WSJ)
- The Immature White House (Jay Cost, RCP) These guys admit their only executive experience was running a campaign. At least they're sticking with what they know.
- The tired war on Rush Limbaugh (Jonah Goldberg, LA Times)
- Team Obama’s Petty Limbaugh Strategy (Michael Scherer, Swampland)
- Obama: The great divider? (Victor Davis Hanson, RCP)
- Has Obama buried Reagan? (Daniel Henninger, WSJ)
- Genuine Trumps Gimmick (Stolen Thunder)
- Money for nothing (Marcus Winters, City Journal)
- Will Obama stand up for these kids? (William McGurn, WSJ) The next time Obama bucks a liberal interest group will be the first.
- Deficits and fiscal credibility (Evan Bayh, WSJ)
- Obama's Middle-Class Task Force Has No Middle Class (Claire Suddath, Time)
- A Moderate Manifesto (David Brooks, NY Times) Well, isn't it nice that the Buckley/Brooks intellectual set is having buyer's remorse? Sorry, boys -- you've made your bed (or better, messed it). Now lie in it.
Posted by Kevin Whited on 05 March 2009, 09:40 PM | Comments (0)
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Linkpost: 03/03/09
- Republican Road to Recovery (Paul Ryan, WSJ)
- The Audacity of Nope (Christopher Buckley, The Daily Beast)
- Steele to Rush: I'm sorry (Mike Allen, Politico)
“I went back at that tape and I realized words that I said weren’t what I was thinking,” Steele said. "It was one of those things where I thinking I was saying one thing, and it came out differently.
From a Republican president who can't speak coherently to a GOP chair. Nice! - Obama's economic kick-start will quadruple US deficit (Rupert Cornwell, Independent)
- The budget reveals the liberal Obama (Clive Crook, FT)
- Gorbachev smiles (Brothers Judd)
- Separation of Kirk and State (Brothers Judd)
- 'Potential' Disruption? (WaPo) The next time that Obama stands up to a liberal interest group will be... the first.
- Building a strategic partnership (Lisa Curtis, Front Page Mag) Surely the Obama Administration can't screw up the relationship W built with India. Surely.
- Pakistan's politics: Just like the bad old days (Economist)
- Financing the Louvre when Mona Lisa gets Tossed Out (Cepage Noir) How about those last two grafs?
Posted by Kevin Whited on 03 March 2009, 10:43 PM | Comments (0)
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Linkpost: 02/21/09
- How Democracy Ruined the Bailout Plan (Holman Jenkins, WSJ)
- Cheering for Obama stimulus buys into the 1930s myth (Amity Shlaes, Bloomberg)
- Deregulation and the financial panic (Phil Gramm, WSJ)
- Drowning by fire hose (George Will, WaPo)
- GM's plan: Subsidize our 48-year-old retirees (Paul Ingrassia, WSJ)
- 'Hair of the Dog' Stimulus (Daniel Henninger, WSJ)
- Dukes of moral hazard (WSJ)
- Analysis: Democrats self-destructing over ethics (Larry Margasak, AP) The party in power may change, but the nature of politics and the nature of man do not.
- Obama's governing style (Tony Blankley, RCP)
- The White House's missing documents (Josh Gerstein, Politico) Imagine the outcry if W had tried this....
- Just a month in and little remains of the candidate (Brothers Judd)
- Sure, but look what happened when we refused to limit phlogiston emissions (Brothers Judd)
- Nation of cowards? (Heather MacDonald, City Journal)
- Obama's supine diplomacy (Charles Krauthammer, WaPo)
- We're Not OK, Jack (Quin Hillyer, TAS)
- Headless Body in Legless Story (Mark Steyn The Corner)
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Linkpost: 02/17/09
- Stimulus Plan Caters to the Privileged Public Sector (Joel Kotkin, New Geography)
- The Stimulus Made Easy (Something Fishie)
- Don't believe the stimulus scaremongers (Ama Bhide, WSJ)
- Chicoms to the right of him.... (Brothers Judd)
- The Audacity of Irony (Victor Davis Hanson, NRO)
- Obama, an economic unilateralist (Spengler, Asia Times)
- The TARP Trojan Horse (Theodore H. Frank, TAS)
- Harvard narcissists with MBAs killed Wall Street (Kevin Hassett, Bloomberg)
- Is Obamania stopping us from questioning Obama's competence? (Gil Troy, History News Network)
- It's too dangerous to allow him off script (Brothers Judd)
- Does he whistle the Colonel Bogie march to himself? (Brothers Judd)
- An Obama-Reagan presidency? (Paul Kengor, Front Page Mag)
- What Barack Obama should tell the Iranian people (Christopher Hitchens, Slate) W should have gone to Tehran to speak directly to the Iranian people (whom the mullahs fear). With his hawkish cred, he could have. Obama will have a much tougher time pulling it off.
- The plight of the left-wing talkers (Philip Terzian, Weekly Standard)
- The man who negotiates with oil militants (Andrew Walker, BBC News) I don't think I want his job.
- Pakistan makes a Taliban truce, creating a haven (Jane Perlez, IHT)
Posted by Kevin Whited on 17 February 2009, 10:24 PM | Comments (0)
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Linkpost: 02/14/09
- Feinstein comment on U.S. drones likely to embarrass Pakistan (Greg Miller, LA Times) This does far more to harm American interests than anything Colin Powell's underling ever said about Valerie Plame to reporters, although one rather doubts it will be reported that way.
- Treasury's Salesman-in-Training (Eugene Robinson, WaPo)
- Jimmy Carter at warp speed (Mark Steyn)
- Pro-Lifers, It Turns Out, Were a Big Part of Obama's Winning Coalition (Steve Waldman, Christianity Today) So? Not all voters are single-issue voters, and clearly for some, Obama's looks, his partisan identification, his appeals to hope/change, etc, trumped their professed pro-life position (and his own pro-death advocacy during the primaries). Voters in America are perfectly welcome to seize on whatever issue bundles they find important, of course, but let us not pretend that Obama's pro-lifers placed life anywhere high in their issue bundle.
- Obama's enablers in chief (Kimberley Strassel, WSJ)
- Iraq: Good news is no news (Charles Krauthammer, WaPo)
- Cash on delivery: The movement to give every American a trust fund at birth (Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow, Boston Globe) A very interesting idea that affluent societies ought at least to debate, despite the predictable objections from liberals, libertarians, and conservatives.
- Twitter's got versatility (Dwight Silverman, Houston Chronicle) Right now, Twitter reminds me of IRC and online journals and blogs in their early days. It's been a fun way to discover and connect with interesting new people and even businesses and experiences. And maybe the follow/block tools will help keep it free of so much of the rancor that has taken over blogs (especially so much of the nasty personal rancor, blech).
Posted by Kevin Whited on 14 February 2009, 11:32 AM | Comments (0)
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Linkpost: 02/11/09
- Reaganomics vs. Obamanomics (Peter Ferrara, WSJ)
- How will Obama's liberalism shape America? (Charles Kesler, CSM)
- The Deeper Roots of Our Financial Crisis (Theodore Roosevelt Malloch, TAS)
- Is Geithner ready for prime time? (Lawrence Kudlow, RCP)
- The sameness is amusing, the difference instructive (Brothers Judd)
- Wasn't it just a few months ago that comedians were telling us it was impossible to make fun of the UR? (Brothers Judd)
- From hope to doomsday (David Keene, The Hill)
- Pelosi's indefensible bill (William McGurn, WSJ)
- Generic Congressional Ballot (Rasmussen Reports, 02/10/09) It tooks years for the GOP to sour voters on their party. It's taken Pelosi, Reid, and the other porkers all of a few weeks. Nicely played!
- Is Zimbabwe a rogue state? (Christopher Hitchens, Slate)
- Jihad Fail
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Linkpost: 02/10/09
- A Military Tactician's Political Strategy (Thomas Ricks, WaPo)
- The Dissenter Who Changed the War (Thomas Ricks, WaPo)
- It's a recession, not a "catastrophe" (Alan Reynolds, NY Post)
- Solve the Toxic Asset Problem (Joaquin Almunia, WSJE)
- It’s No Time for Protectionism (N. Gregory Mankiw, NY Times)
- Do not destroy the essential catalyst of risk (Lloyd Blankfein, FT)
- Politics is damaging the credibility of economics (Clive Crook, FT) Unfortunately, when so much of the economy is directly controlled by the government, politics is economics. Therein lies at least part of the problem.
- How government created the financial crisis (John B. Taylor, WSJ)
- Stumbling out the gate: Barack Obama flubs his first big test (Michael Goodwin, NY Daily News)
- Culture of Corruption II (Jack Kelly, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
- Democrats try trickle-down economics (Karl Rove, WSJ)
- O who? (Brothers Judd)
- The U.R. vs the Democrats (Brothers Judd)
- But who would have his back? (Brothers Judd)
- Breakthrough on 'broken windows' (Carolyn Johnson, Boston Globe)
Posted by Kevin Whited on 10 February 2009, 11:14 AM | Comments (0)
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Linkpost: 02/07/09
- The great college hoax (Kathy Kristof, Forbes)
- The Action Americans Need (Barack Obama, WaPo) Just repeating "change" and "hope" is much more compelling on the campaign trail. Governing is harder.
- Things were always going to get ugly as the cipher got solved (Brothers Judd) See above.
- Obama Agonistes (R. emmett Tyrrell, TAS)
- Voters dislike surprises (Brothers Judd)
- What Is Congress Stimulating? (Daniel Henninger, WSJ)
- What's missing from the economic discussion (Carl J. Schramm, RCP)
- Critics blast foreign policy transition (Ben Smith, Politico)
- Iraq's Remarkable Election (Kim Kagan & Fred Kagan, WSJ)
- Congress Wants a Trade War (Burton Malkiel, WSJ)
- Boomer Bust (Robert Bryce, TCS)
Posted by Kevin Whited on 07 February 2009, 05:13 PM | Comments (0)
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Linkpost: 02/04/09
- House Puts Off Vote on Bid to Remove Rangel (Bennett Roth, CQ Politics) Interestingly, the "Culture of Corruption" endures even when the party in power changes.
- District of Corruption (Norman Ornstein, TNR)
- Tom Daschle's Washington (WSJ)
- Government: The one price that's still rising (Steven Malanga, RCM)
- Washington Could Use Less John Meynard Keynes and More Friedrick Hayek (Dick Armey, WSJ)
- An Obamaplosion (Victor Davis Hanson, Pajamas Media)
- Administration Is Described as Being at a Loss (Ceci Connolly, WaPo) That seems true in so many ways. What a disorganized mess of a White House.
- On a tough day, Obama escapes for a while (Ben Feller, AP) We've gone from a President who can't speak to a President who has to "escape" the office two weeks in. Gawd help the Republic.
- Uh-Oh, He Lost Dowd (Contentions)
- Obama backs out on Iraq appointment (Barbara Slavin, Wash Times)
- It's not just that this plan is a political disaster... (Brothers Judd)
- Obama stimulus harmful over long haul (Stephen Dinan, Wash Times)
- Obama's Dangerous Bank Bailout: Restoring Citi and BofA to greatness shouldn't be the goal (Holman Jenkins, WSJ)
- Obama vs. Pelosi: Can the President Work with the Democrats? (Jay Newton-Small, Time)
- Senate Lacks Votes to Pass Stimulus (Shailagh Murray & Paul Kane, WaPo)
- Magical thinking (Brothers Judd)
- Miswitness (Brothers Judd)
- Restart? How about start? (Brothers Judd)
- The Battle for Gas: Europe's Pipeline War (Spiegel)
- Revolutionary Guards are Taking Over in Tehran (Richard Weitz, EurasiaNet)
- Deaths in Moscow (Economist)
- The growing, and mysterious, irrelevance of al-Qaeda (Economist)
- In Plato's cave (Economist)
- Winning DeLay's Former Seat (Amy Goldstein, Politics Magazine)
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Linkpost: 02/03/09
- Constitutional conservatism (Peter Berkowitz, RCP)
- Grand New Party: Steele in their spines (Reihan Salam, Forbes)
- Democratic Stealth Care (Kimberley Strassel, WSJ)
- Obama's Moralizing Tone May Not Wear Well (Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ)
- Stimulating Times (George Will, Newsweek)
- Democrats are hypocrites when it comes to paying taxes (Jonah Goldberg, LA Times)
- Taxes? Too busy, busy, busy! (Emily Yoffe, WaPo)
- Obama spokesman defends ethics standards (AP)
- Given that they were defending the Daschle pick as late as this morning... (Brothers Judd)
- And isn't the essence of modern liberalism... (Brothers Judd)
- Saving the UR from his own ignorance (Brothers Judd)
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Linkpost: 01/22/09
- Has Darwin Failed? (Markus Becker, Spiegel)
- What are the lives of colored people to the Darwinist right? (Brothers Judd)
- Where was the "hate"? (Paul Kengor, Front Page)
- Unreal Expectations? (Victor Davis Hanson, NRO)
- The Return of Carterism? (Arthur Herman, Commentary)
- Obama at History's 'Hinge Point' (Daniel Henninger, WSJ)
- Barack Obama and Guantanamo Bay (WSJ)
- Now it’s time to put the ‘we’ into ‘Yes we can’ (Brendan O'Neill, Spiked)
- Profiles in Cowardice (Paul Chesser, TAS)
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Linkpost: 01/21/09
- President Oxybarama (Spengler, Asia Times)
- The Conservative Revolutionary (Michael Gerson, WaPo)
- Judge Obama on Performance Alone (Juan Williams, WSJ)
- What Obama Brings to Conservatives (Jonah Goldberg, NRO)
- Business World: Can Obama Make Government Solvent? Start by reforming Social Security and Medicare (Holman Jenkins, WSJ)
- The Latest Entitlement (WSJ)
- Bush's Real Sin Was Winning in Iraq (William McGurn, WSJ)
- Aboard the Bush Plane (Mark McKinnon, The Daily Beast)
- More on the Border Patrol commutations (BurkaBlog)
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Linkpost: 01/20/09
- May as well start disappointing them early (Brothers Judd)
- Will Obama Bring Home the Neocons? (Gabriel Schoenfeld, WSJ) It beats me, but he could move to the right, win quite a bit of Republican support, and do good things for the country.
- The Politics of Cohesion (David Brooks, NYT)
- No choice but to matter (Eugene, Robinson, WaPo)
- Unlike media, Obama knows he's no wizard (John Kass, Chicago Tribune)
- Bush and the Bush-haters (J.R. Dunn, RCP)
- Holder for Wiretaps (WSJ)
- The Border Patrol commutations (Burkablog)
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Linkpost: 12/19/08
- The price of oil returns to 'normal' (Terence Corcoran, National Post) Wouldn't it be great if all those journalists who were citing Matthew Simmons and T. Boone Pickens and the other Peak Oil Cultists this summer would do followup stories now, and quote those guys?
- Most Likely to Succeed (Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker)
- The Case Against Blogs and Twitter (Patrick Ruffini, The Next Right) I have to admit that Twitter is one of the more fun net things since.... I used to play around with IRC. Now, whether it's a tool that's great for politics and policy (instead of simply being fun)... is an open question in my mind.
- What would a Republican "green" agenda look like? (Christopher Beam, Slate) Conservatives my age and younger will have to take the lead on this. The older white guy Republicans just don't care. Those of us who regularly treat the outdoors as an extra room already agree with much that is here.
- The Enduring Worth of Compassionate Conservatism (Michael Gerson, WaPo) The phrase will have to be ditched. Third-Way Conservatism, not so much.
- TSA Aiding Luggage Thieves (Bruce Schneier) TSA is the joke that many of us thought it would become. These days, it's more of a glorified jobs program than it is a security program.
- Will 'feditis' spread to Obama and Daley? (John Kass, Chicago Tribune) Every city should have a muni columnist like John Kass, but not many do.
- Man behind curtain is wizard of Rod, Rahm (John Kass, Chicago Tribune)
- By Chicago standards, Blagojevich isn't crazy (John Kass, Chicago Tribune)
- He's the clown, but joke's on us (John Kass, Chicago Tribune)
- A novel way to tackle Pakistan (Sreeram Chaulia, Asia Times)
- The failed Muslim states to come (Spengler, Asia Times)
- Pakistan groups banned but not bowed (Syed Saleem Shahzad, Asia Times)
- Pakistan's top general reins in own Army (Mark Sappenfield & Issam Ahmed, CSM)
- Kidnapping of US antikidnapping consultant rattles Mexico (Sara Miller Llana, CSM) Kidnapping Consultant FAIL.
- Bolivia's divisions herald more turmoil (Daniel Schweimler, BBC News)
- After we were so rudely interrupted (Economist) Bad news for Bangladesh.
- Rod Blagojevich, the Stupidest Governor in the Country, Puts Obama in a Bad Light (Michael Barone, US News)
- BBTROE: Govern, don’t just rule (Lone Star Times)
- BBTROE: Address GOP-gap with Hispanic & younger voters (Lone Star Times)
- BBTRO: Focus on the economy (Lone Star Times)
- BBTROE: Appeal to the Critical Middle (David Benzion, Lone Star Times)
- BBTROE: Educate GOP Base re: danger of TX going way of CO (Lone Star Times)
- Storm-ravaged Galveston faces 'disaster tourism' dilemma (TJ Aulds, Galveston County Daily News)
- You're going to miss us when we're gone (MeMo) We? Umm, I would miss the sort of hard news that increasingly is being replaced with efforts to appeal to demographic groups (Jeff Cohen's approach) and with "fact check" editorializing and the like. But the "we" that is MeMo's domain -- fluff -- not so much.
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