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I kind of drifted away from Andrew Sullivan when he got so obsessed with Sarah Palin's uterus that I started to think that what he really wanted to do was visit it.
But I do regularly read Ann Althouse , who I think is a kindred spirit in calling it like she sees it without regard to 'tribes,' ...
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Andrew Sullivan
So we don't have TV at home (although we did just get cool Netflix streaming movies via our PS3), so I've been spared the endless procession of talking heads that makes up out political commentary for most of my time.
But I do watch TV when I travel, and on one trip to the East Coast I did ...
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Glenn Beck
I've been unhappy with the quality of data released to support AGW, and so was unwilling to jump onto the bandwagon - while supporting things like energy independence. And I've been worried that core data - which keeps somehow being unreproducable or unavailable - needs to be rigorously ...
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Last time pirate hijacked the Maersk Alabama, it took a biilion-dollar AEGIS destroyer and a SEAL team to resolve the situation.
Well, the American-flagged Maersk Alabama was sailing out again, and attacked by pirates again. This time, the pirate encountered a hired on-board security team ...
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The New yorker has an article from Seymour Hersh (yeah, I know) called " Defending the Arsenal: In an unstable Pakistan, can nuclear warheads be kept safe? "
To me, the title falls into the "Duh, of course not" category, especially as you lengthen the time horizon. Now throw in all the ...
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India
Johann Hari's article in The Independent, " Renouncing Islamism: To the brink and back again ," is the result of his interviews with some unusual people - British Muslims who first joined violent global jihad, then very publicly abandoned and began to battle against Islamism.
Some ...
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al-Qaeda
Barron's Magazine recently ran a feature entitled "Watch Their Language," (subscription required) which focused on some "dirty words" used in 10-K and 10-Q filings. James A. Kaplan, the Chairman and CEO of a firm called Audit Integrity, adds some publicly-accessible "Devil's Dictionary" type ...
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James Arthur Strohm
As I note over on my work blog, the folks at eMediaVitals.com asked me to put up an article about the state and direction (the vector!) of media businesses building on my remarks to the LA Press Club a few weeks ago.
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A pair of interesting pieces at The Oil Drum, a site whose views lean strongly toward Peak Oil. One is a reproduced letter to The Guardian by Colin Campbell , one of the worlds preeminent depletion analysts, and co-author of the 1998 Scientific American article, "The End of Cheap Oil." He's not ...
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International Monetary Fund
Interesting piece on stealth local stimulus , at a blog called ForeclosureTruth:
"...we remain in housing limbo, with millions of homeowners underwater on their mortgages and unable, or unwilling to make their payments; yet with few being foreclosed, as lenders and the government desperately ...
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Stimulus Plan
Law professor and critical theory grad Darren Hutchinson gets his inner coprophile on and blasts the critics of Obama's bow (my own views here).
The post is pretty standard stuff for the juicebox Jane Hamsher crowd, and in my view, pretty much unintentionally satirizes critical theorists.
So ...
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Barack Obama
An email to my shooting list:
Went to Disney Hall downtown last night to hear Dudamel conduct and Dawn Upshaw sing ...
We're sitting in the grown-up section, where tickets are $125 each; and TG and I spent the first half of the program shutting people up.
WHAT THE F***?? Were these people ...
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Count me among the exasperated at Obama's willingness to bow before royalty - it's funny actually, that such an avowed progressive (the group that believes in dissolving the connections of power) is so willing to defer to royalty.
And no, it's not a diplomatic custom (see this series at Hot ...
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...about much. But this snippet over at Politico got my attention.
According to the documents, George Soros' Open Society Policy Center pays the annual salary of the NIAC staffer who heads the Campaign for a New Policy on Iran, according to an email among NIAC officials. And the minutes of a ...
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Iran
I Am Not A Lawyer , but trust me, it will be a train wreck - legally because a decent defense attorney will use it as a platform to place the entire War on Terror on trial, shifting the focus from Mohammed's acts to the government's and to a grandiose litany of America's wrongs in the world - ...
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9/11
I didn't manage to attend the Memorial at Fort Hood on Tuesday, but on Memorial Day itself I went to a nearby ceremony that LTG Cone spoke at.
Of course he spoke to last week's events, particularly the noble actions of numerous soldiers at the scene, two in particular: A Captain who was grazed ...
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But probably not in obvious ways.
I read a lot of stuff, and often get great ideas by reading things that are from sources that are pretty widely disparate.
Here's one - a discussion of unemployment by Reuters writer James Pethokoukis:
Gluskin Sheff economist David Rosenberg, formerly of ...
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Starting in 2002, I've posted some comments on each Veterans' Day .
There is a consistent theme in these posts.
A big part of it is rediscovering patriotism; learning how it's possible to be a liberal and a patriot at the same time.
I don't seem to have a problem with that; others do.
Today ...
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Bud Day
As an aside, some people have referred to the attack as terrorism. It is not. It is a military attack on a military target, by an American citizen. The term for that is treason. I look forward to Hassan's execution by military firing squad.
Meanwhile, Ricks is asking the obvious questions , ...
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There is a lot of heat on the milbogs now about the official reaction to the Ft. Hood atrocity - an official reaction which plays down, rather than playing up, the Islamist chain of causality that led to Maj. Hassan stepping up on a table and drawing his gun.
I disagree. I think it's the right ...
