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Firedoglake —
... In what will likely be one of his last NY Times columns, Bill Kristol demonstrates that in a "(P)inch", he can always find something to delude himself with, you can almost see his pants dropping and one-hand typing. ...
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Rising Hegemon —
... In what will likely be one of his last NY Times columns, Bill Kristol demonstrates that in a "(P)inch", he can always find something to delude himself with, you can almost see his pants dropping and one-hand typing. ...
Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos —
... William Kristol: I get paid by the number of times I can call the left hysterical or intolerant. It's cold comfort compared to losing and always being wrong, but I have to write about something between now and when the Times fires me. So here's my attempt at being gracious: I hope Obama does well, particularly when he does something conservative. It's not much, but it's the best I can do. ...
Crisis of the House Divided
Power Line —
... of Lincoln that Crisis is "incontestably the greatest Lincoln book of the [twentieth] century." Bill Kristol discreetly recommends the book to the attention of President-elect Obama in his interesting Times column today. ...
Happy Hour Links
Weekly Standard Blog —
The boss looks forward to Obama's inauguration with a hopeful eye.
Six out of ten active duty service members not too keen on Obama.
Briton with fatal disease waits in emergency room line for 6 hours.
Iraqis will take control of the Green Zone on Thursday.
Christopher Caldwell defends Obama's right to smoke.
Via Instapundit, the most absurd on campus p.c. kerfuffle of the year. ...
Obama's Teachable Moment on American Identity
Weekly Standard Blog —
Obama has shown himself to be perfectly at ease talking about America's pluralism, his unique past, and America's promise as illustrated by his own pluralistic past propelling him to the Presidency. But the Bradley Project on America's National Identity has put in a request for other subjects.
The Bradley Project was started to study and reverse the erosion of a unified national identity that comes from connection to the country's values and history— values and history, that is, without the Ward Churchillian twist they're so often given in public schools and colleges these days.
Their advice for Obama's teachable moment, which will ...
