27 August 2008
Linkpost: 08/27/08
- Power struggle rages in Pakistan (Mian Ridge, CSM)
- Musharraf's Removal Has Not Solved Pakistan's Problems (Muhammad Tahir, EurasiaNet)
- Pakistan’s turmoil (FT)
- Governing Coalition Collapses in Pakistan (Candace Rondeaux, WaPo)
- An inflation model from a bygone era (Larry Hatheway, FT)
- Medvedev endorses Georgia break-up (Charles Clover, Isabel Gorst & Stefan Wagstyl, FT)
- Aging Population Spooks EU (Spiegel)
- Shhh! Americans Getting Richer (James Pethokoukis, USNews)
- The 7 Most Retarded Ways Celebrities Have Tried to Go Green (David Knigh, Cracked.com)
- Barack Obama's agenda so far is a no-show (Doyle McManus & Robin Abcarian, LA Times)
- 2007 Senate Vote Ratings (National Journal) They really can't talk about their agenda, given those voting records, so it all has to be about Obama's identity.
- Much higher IQ (James Bowman, TAS)
- Pelosi on Natural Gas: Fossil Fuel or Not? (John McKinnon, WSJ.com)
- Catholic bishops correct Pelosi on abortion (AP)
- Obama's pick for vice president is Catholic. But the bishops deny him communion (Sandro Magister, Chiesa) Perhaps he and Nancy Pelosi can set the Catholic theologians straight.
- Barack Obama Picks Long-Time Abortion Advocate Joe Biden as Running Mate (Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com)
- Poll: Majority of Americans Disagree With Barack Obama on When Life Begins (Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com)
- The candidate of the death lobby (Brothers Judd)
- Obama has picked a Cheney when he needed a Gore (James Forsyth, Spectator) Huh? Cheney had been an elected legislator, a White House Chief of Staff, a Secretary of Defense, and was intimately involved in continuity of government and other defense planning over decades. Biden never rose in the Senate leadership, has few if any legislative accomplishments, is a subject of amusement for his verbal gaffes, and had two disastrous presidential runs, one of which involved him plagiarizing someone else's life story and making it his own. He is no Cheney, whatever one thinks of Cheney.
- Analysis: Biden pick shows lack of confidence (Ron Fournier, AP)
- Statesman known for slips of his tongue (Eamon Javers and Jonathan Martin, Politico) Statesman? That seems overly generous.
- Biden is no threat to Obama - but no asset (William Rees-Mogg, Times)
- The Thin Man: Obama's slender record (William Kristol, Weekly Standard)
- Come back Geraldine, all is forgiven (Brothers Judd)
- It's not about his patriotism, but his judgment (Brothers Judd)
- Michelle Obama's two Americas (Byron York, NRO)
- The lady doth protest too much (Spengler, Asia Times)
- Talking Sports the Way Men Really Talk Sports (Bryan Curtis, NY Times)
- Sumlin instills new discipline in Cougars (Chris Duncan, AP)
- It's no shouting matter for Texans' Gibbs (Richard Justice, Houston Chronicle) It's fun when RJ goes off his meds.
- 36 Hours on Mykonos, Greece (Andrew Ferren, NY Times) Why in the world would anyone join the thousands of tourists visiting Mykonos? Blech.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 08/27/08 20:17 | Links | Technorati | Comments (0)
22 August 2008
Linkpost: 08/22/08
- Exit Petraeus, Without Fanfare (WSJ) It's unlikely, but the Veep speculation is certainly entertaining.
- Washington Is Quietly Repudiating Its Debts (Gerald O'Driscoll Jr., WSJ)
- NATO Meows (Charles Krauthammer, WaPo)
- The Next Bailout: Detroit (WSJ)
- They're paying attention now (Peggy Noonan, WSJ)
- The shockingly liberal legacy of George W. Bush (Luiza Savage, Macleans.ca)
- The Death of 1989 (Paul Berman, TNR)
- Tbilisi admits misjudging Russia (Jan Cienski, FT)
- Iraqi Army's Rise Boosted Chances for U.S. Withdrawal (Yochi Dreazen, WSJ)
- Why Won't the Mainstream Media Question the Obama Narrative? (Michael Barone, USNews.com)
- Did Obama lie about born alive bill? (Joel Mowbray, RCP)
- Obama's lost Annenberg years coming to light (Thomas Lifson, American Thinker)
- The mystery of Obama's problems (Jonah Goldberg, RCP)
- ‘Yes we can'? Make that: ‘Oops, we may not' (Gerard Baker, Times)
- Obama: 110% pro-choice (George Neumayr, TAS)
- Why Obama really voted for infanticide (Andrew C. McCarthy, NRO)
- As the GOP primaries demonstrated... (Brothers Judd)
- Stuck on Marxism (Brothers Judd)
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 08/22/08 21:32 | Links | Technorati | Comments (0)
21 August 2008
Linkpost: 08/21/08
- Russia's Nuclear Threat Is More Than Words (Gabriel Schoenfeld, WSJ)
- In sight, out of mind (Jacob Laksin, City Journal)
- China's impending catastrophe: Its shrinking, aging population (Jonathan Last, Philadelphia Inquirer)
- Report from Tbilisi (Michael J. Totten, City Journal)
- The west is strategically wrong on Georgia (Kishore Mahbubani, FT)
- News Good Enough to Bury (Roger Cohen, NY Times)
- Containing Chávez (FT)
- No more need for Freddie and Fannie (FT)
- We Can't Tax Our Way Out of the Entitlement Crisis (R. Glenn Hubbard, WSJ) Too bad W decided economics wasn't all that important to his presidency, and tossed the entire portfolio to Paulson. He had some good staffers once upon a time.
- The Bush era in perspective (Robert Kagan, RCP)
- McCain turns Bush on Iraq war surge (Joseph Curl, Wash Times)
- Saddleback: The inner game of politics (Daniel Henninger, WSJ)
- The Silver Bullet (Lois Romano, WaPo)
- McCain’s Pro-Choice V.P. Bluff (John Heilemann, NY Mag)
- When Daley says shhh, library is quiet on Obama (John Kass, Chicago Tribune) Kass is what a real columnist looks like. Too bad we don't have any of those on the Chron metro/state pages.
- Let's go out on a limb here... (Brothers Judd)
- Congress's Finest Hour (WSJ) Divided government is not the end of the world for those of us who don't want the federal government doing more.
- Who's going to win Texans-Cowboys game? (Chron NFL Blog) McClain's reporting isn't always as strong as it might be, but he seems like a pretty good guy.
- Too much tech in Houston's revamped downtown library? (Deborah Wrigley, KTRK-13 News) Do we really need video games in our libraries?
- 4 smaller SUVs excel in safety test (Ken Thomas, AP) Hey, the Rogue makes the grade!
- Sea Kayak Milos Kayaking this island is definitely is on my to-do list!
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 08/21/08 23:47 | Links | Technorati | Comments (0)
20 August 2008
Linkpost: 08/20/08
- The idiocy of energy independence (John Stossel, RCP)
- Inspiration And Danger In Georgia (Michael Gerson, WaPo)
- The key to happiness is freedom not income (Roberto Foa, FT) This could be a topic at Joel Osteen's self-help gatherings (and just as theological!).
- Democrats Move Left On Abortion (Naomi Schaefer Riley, WSJ)
- Good and Evil and Obama (Jonah Goldberg, NRO)
- Re: The Mask Slips (Peter Wehner, Contentions)
- Obama Played by Chicago Rules (David Freddoso, WSJ)
- Local Clinton backers, McCain adviser meet (Borys Krawzeniuk, Scranton Times-Tribune) The Obama brain trust must love that.
- "Just words" that Joe Biden would like to forget (Jim Geraghty, NRO)
- It's not unlikely that the reaction will change the Unicorn Rider's mind (Brothers Judd)
- Texas lieutenant governor mum on wealth (Jay Root, AP)
- United’s Meal Charges Earn the Cranky Jackass Award (The Cranky Flier)
- Cowboy Upgrade: Welcome to the NFL's Next Flagship Arena (Erin Biba, Wired)
- Stoops' philosophy captivated OU's Joe C. (John Helsley, Daily Oklahoman)
- Don’t mess with Texans (Going Stagg)
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 08/20/08 23:15 | Links | Technorati | Comments (1)
19 August 2008
Linkpost: 08/19/08
- The comparison between South Ossetia and Kosovo is bunk (Christopher Hitchens, Slate)
- Russia's Flashback To 1968 (Anne Applebaum, WaPo)
- The dangers of the safe route (Economist)
- A scripted war (Economist)
- Russia resurgent (Economist)
- Americans play Monopoly, Russians chess (Spengler, Asia Times)
- Caspian Oil Access Curtailed: Georgia -- A Blow to US Energy (Steve LeVine, Spiegel)
- When Henry Met Fannie (WSJ)
- Barack Obama, abortion extremist (Rich Lowry, NRO)
- Barack Obama, the gift that keeps on giving (Brothers Judd)
- Believing your own press (Brothers Judd) Biden is hard to believe. Surely this is a head fake.
- Speech disfluency (Unca Darrell)
- Iraq: The benefits and the curse of oil (Economist)
- Venezuela: Socialism by Decree (Angus Reid Global Monitor)
- Mexico pays the price of prohibition (Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ)
- Nicaragua: Tearing up the rules (Economist)
- Profile: Musharraf the fallen soldier (Farhan Bokhari, FT)
- Musharraf departure heightens uncertainty (Farhan Bokhari & Daniel Dombey, FT)
- Musharraf's failed double game led to his undoing (Jane Perlez, IHT)
- Pakistan's Musharraf, ever the soldier, loses this battle (Laura King, LA Times)
- Trip to Iguazu (Why You Want to Live in Buenos Aires)
- Downgrade made official: United eliminates free meals on transatlantic flights (Upgrade: Travel Better) When it finally makes the move, Continental will be well positioned as the best American carrier in Star Alliance.
- Could the Redeem Team beat the Dream Team? (Joe Posnansky, Kansas City Star)
- Aiming higher: Houston's Texas Bowl builds toward higher-ranked teams and a New Year's date (Houston Chronicle) So nice that the Editorial LiveJournalists got the score of the football game wrong. That is a very impressive feat.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 08/19/08 23:14 | Links | Technorati | Comments (3)
18 August 2008
Linkpost: 08/18/08
- The vulnerabilities that lie behind Putin’s belligerence (Philip Stephens, FT)
- First Yukos, then Georgia (Holman Jenkins, WSJ)
- After Russia's invasion of Georgia, what now for the West? (John Bolton, Telegraph)
- Man of Courage: Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 1918-2008 (Harvey Mansfield, Weekly Standard)
- McCain's New Hope (Michael Gerson, WaPo)
- Getting to Know John McCain (Karl Rove, WSJ)
- Obama on Clarence Thomas (WSJ)
- For Obama at Saddleback, a tough crowd on some issues (Jake Tapper, ABC News)
- How McCain won Saddleback (Byron York, NRO)
- Barack Obama Repeats False Claim Abortions Haven't Declined Under Bush (Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com)
- Life with Obama: Abortion champion (David Freddoso, NRO)
- Myths of the Obamacans (Christopher Caldwell, FT)
- We'll All Pay For the Fed's Loose Money Follies (Benn Steil, WSJ)
- Wine-Searcher Put this one in your smarphones!
- Cracking the Code Of Restaurant Wine Pricing (Juliet Chung, WSJ)
- What really caused the Favre-Packers split (Gregg Easterbrook, ESPN.com)
- Stoops@10: Entering his 10th season, Stoops has reached the level of OU's coaching greats (Berry Tramel, Daily Oklahoman)
- Osteens thank supporters during Lakewood service (Mike Tolson, Houston Chronicle) The me-me-me aspect of it may be crass, but in terms of the lack of theological content, it's nothing new. It's odd that so many confuse these performances with Christianity.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 08/18/08 21:42 | Links | Technorati | Comments (0)
14 August 2008
Linkpost: 08/14/08
- Welcome Back To the Great Game (Melik Kaylan, WSJ)
- Russia: pause for thought (Times of London)
- Refresh Georgia's 'Rose Revolution' (CSM)
- Russian nationalism on the march (Alvaro Vargas Llose, RCP)
- How to Stop Putin (Charles Krauthammer, WaPo)
- Breaking the press (Steven Stark, RCP)
- Vladimir Putin's mastery checkmates the West (Michael Binyon, Times of London)
- The 3 a.m. phone call is real (Mona Charen, RCP)
- Jurors reject claim that Osteen assaulted flight attendant (Brian Rogers, Houston Chronicle) The assault claim always seemed dubious. The notion she behaved like a spoiled ingrate on the plane, inconveniencing other passengers and doing a disservice to her "church," seems a little more grounded.
- The only reason poor guys find themselves forced to endure a Comets game
- Officials look for buyer who'll keep Comets in Houston (Jenny Dial, Houston Chronicle) It sounds like the "franchise" is effectively in receivership. It's amazing the entire league isn't in receivership.
- Cheeseburger Cheeseburger Comes to Texas (Eating our Words) MMMM!
- Florida Atlantic coach: Horns aren't tough (Suzanne Halliburton, Alan Trubow, AAS) It's true, but they are plenty good to smack Schnellie's team around.
- Dallas Cowboys need Joe Avezzano (Randy Galloway, FWST) PubliusTX.net was ahead of Galloway by a few days in calling for Coach Joe!
- Dallas Cowboys staying with Brad Johnson — for now (Jim Reeves, FWST) For now.
- Wade’s vision for Astros comes to life (Richard Justice, Houston Chronicle) His vision was for a .500 team that's played a few weeks of good baseball all season? Seriously, is any Chron columnist capable of analysis, or a longer-than-two-weeks view?
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 08/14/08 22:17 | Links | Technorati | Comments (6)
13 August 2008
Linkpost: 08/13/08
- The west shares the blame for Georgia (Anatol Lieven, FT)
- For Most People, College Is a Waste of Time (Charles Murray, WSJ)
- The World of Tomorrow (Review of The Way We'll Be by John Zogby, Michael Barone, WSJ)
- Clinton declined, but McCain won't (Mark Davis, RCP)
- Obama's Abortion Distortion (Kevin Vance, Weekly Standard)
- Will new 90210 be strike or gutter ball? (Kinney Littlefield, AP) What, Brenda and Kelly are coming back as guests, but not Dylan? So sad.
- Chronicle, San Antonio Paper May Share "Generic" Features (Hair Balls) Maybe MeMo will describe on her blog how this is another example of The Man keeping her down. Or maybe not.
- Russo's New York Coal-Fired Pizzeria (Alison Cook, Houston Chronicle) Russo's makes a darn good pizza. You certainly don't have to go to Whataburger afterwards.
- Houston Restaurant Week @ Whataburger (Tasty Bits) Hmm, I can only imagine the outrage if Robb Walsh had written such a thing. Oh, wait, I don't have to imagine it! :)
- When Pastors Go Postal (Barbara Ehrenreich, The Nation)
- OSTEEN - Think Positive, Go Postal (Orthodixie)
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 08/13/08 23:38 | Links | Technorati | Comments (2)
12 August 2008
Linkpost: 08/12/08
- What If the FBI Is Right About Bruce Ivins? (Randall Larsen, WSJ) This story should really be getting more play, for the reasons offered.
- I'm Sigmund Freud, and I Approve This Message (Paul Waldman, TAP) I don't think this is intentionally humorous, but I can't always tell with the Loony Left.
- Why do we have such a hard time hearing good news from Baghdad? (Christopher Hitchens, Slate) Because some partisans are heavily invested in bad news?
- The War in Iraq Is Over. What Next? (Bing West, WSJ)
- The Front-Runner’s Fall (Joshua Green, Atlantic)
- Georgia falls victim to pipeline politics (John Roberts, Platts) The headline doesn't really do this sober, realistic analysis justice.
- A Path to Peace in the Caucasus (Mikhail Gorbachev, WaPo)
- Georgia President Mikheil Saakashvili's 'calculated gamble' (Marjorie Miller & Geraldine Baum, LA Times)
- Stoking Tensions: Russia Blames the Victim (Svante Cornell, Spiegel)
- Europe Grapples with Russia-Georgia Woes (Jack Ewing & Mark Scott, Spiegel)
- Sarkozy Closes in on a Deal: Russia Agrees to Withdraw from South Ossetia (Spiegel)
- Oil in troubled mountains (Robert Cutler, Asia Times)
- The Advantage of the First Move (Robert Kaplan, Atlantic)
- Russia-Georgia conflict offers glimpse at New World Order (Gerald Seib, WSJ)
- Moscow's sinister brilliance (Victor Davis Hanson, NRO)
- Russia's Power Play (George Will, WaPo)
- Who's winning the message war, Obama or McCain? (Alex Koppelman, Salon.com)
- Negative ads: They really do work (Mark J. Penn, Politico)
- Life Sentence (Sarah Blustain, TNR) TNR finds that McCain is a pro-life zealot. And this is worse than a pro-infanticide zealot in what way?
- Why Obama is in trouble (Steven Warshawsky, RCP)
- Texas Is Fed Up With Corn Ethanol (Rick Perry, WSJ) The entire country should be fed up with food as fuel.
- Why Tony Blair May Be Having a Laugh (Kyle Wingfield, WSJ)
- The Galbraith effect? (Thomas Sowell, RCP)
- The Global Ambition of Rick Warren (David Van Biema, Time)
- The reality of those three a.m. moments (Brothers Judd)
- Year No. 4 for Gundy: He's still a man, and now he's 41 (Scott Wright, Daily Oklahoman) Still a goof is more like it. So funny that T. Boone State U thinks Gundy needs time to grow into his job, but saw no need to have such patience with its basketball coach.
- Cowboys sticking by Brad Johnson (Mac Engel, FWST) At least until Chris Simms is available.
- Aug. 12, 1981: IBM Unveils 5150 PC (Randy Alfred, Wired) Happy 27th, IBM PC!
- And the next great American beer will be...? (Edward McClelland, Salon.com) Who ever would have thought the original SMSU float trippers would be so ahead of the "cool curve" with our PBR? :D
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 08/12/08 22:12 | Links | Technorati | Comments (3)
11 August 2008
Linkpost: 08/11/08
- Kremlin Capers (WSJ)
- Sharp War of Words Joins Caucasus Violence (Spiegel)
- A Hot Proxy War: Moscow's Power Politics (Jorg Himmelreich, Spiegel)
- Attack in the Mountains: Is this the First War between Russia and a Former Soviet State? (Christian Neef & Matthias Schepp, Spiegel)
- In Georgia and Russia, a Perfect Brew for a Blowup (C.J. Chivers, NY Times)
- Do the right thing (Jonathan Foreman, NRO)
- When frozen wars heat up (James Robbins, NRO)
- Will Russia Get Away With It? (William Kristol, NY Times) Probably, unless they overreach.
- Putin Makes His Move (Robert Kagan, WaPo)
- Black Sea Watershed (Ronald Asmus & Richard Holbrooke, WaPo)
- The War in Georgia Is a War for the West (Mikheil Saakashvili, WSJ)
- India as a hedge against China (Jeff Smith, Asia Times)
- Another president booted out (Economist)
- Chavez sees Cuba as a model (Mary Anastasia O'Grady, WSJ)
- It's Curtains for Musharraf (Najam Sethi, WSJ)
- Bush Should Lower Gas Prices, Say Americans (Angus Reid Global Monitor) A complex economy should behave like a video game, after all!
- Clinton told to portray Obama as foreign (Mike Allen, Politico)
- Atlanta Airport Warns Of Shoe Accidents (CBS News) Crocs are evil.
- Sixteen Tips To Pack Super Light (Gadling)
- The MSM’s Latest Embarrassment (Jennifer Ruben, Contentions)
- All of Us, the Arbiters of News (David Carr, NY Times)
- I'm so angry, it's time to change (Cary Tennis, Salon) This sounds like someone who could use some of Osteen's positive self-help, although the experience doesn't seem to resolve all anger issues.
- Dallas Cowboys’ special teams still needs work (Mac Engel, FWST) Paging Joe Avezzano...
- UT feeling like underdog in college football (Joseph Duarte, Houston Chronicle)
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 08/11/08 22:32 | Links | Technorati | Comments (0)
08 August 2008
Linkpost: 08/08/08 (or, The Really Cool Date Edition)
- The Ivins Dossier (WSJ)
- Identifying the Anthrax Killer (NY Times)
- No Will To Drill (Charles Krauthammer, WaPo)
- Republican energy fumble (Kimberley Strassel, WSJ)
- A Deal At Hand In Iraq (Jim Hoagland, WaPo)
- Lord of the Memes (David Brooks, NY Times)
- It's one thing to be stumped by Roger Mudd... (Brothers Judd)
- Obama's Tactical Gift to McCain (Michael Gerson, WaPo)
- McCain catches on: It's all about Obama (Toby Harnden, RCP)
- Solid Gold Light Rail (The Antiplanner)
- Comets owner Koch puts team up for sale (Jenny Dial, Houston Chronicle) How he managed to endure watching -- let alone owning -- that awful product for two years is mind-boggling. Perhaps his wife thought it would be fun for the kids. Poor Hilton.
- Is Texas Tech A Paper Pirate? (Barking Carnival) My prediction is yes. Let's get this season underway!
- UH defense gets tough under Skladany (Steve Campbell, Houston Chronicle) Coach Sumlin has put together one hell of a staff.
- The Airbus A380 Super Jumbo (The Travel Insider) Obviously the guy LUVS the A380, but it's a lumbering, environmentally unfriendly hulk (so it's understandable that Emirates also LUVS it). Personally, I'd bet on Boeing's Dreamliner.
- Oklahoma City: Reaping the Benefits of the New Oil Boom (Finn-Olaf Jones, NY Times) Hmm, well, nice headline, aside from the fact that Tulsa was always the more "oily" town, but hey, why expect NY Times reporters actually to get to know flyover country...
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 08/08/08 23:33 | Links | Technorati | Comments (2)
07 August 2008
Linkpost: 08/07/08
- The crisis: A tale of two monetary policies (Martin Feldstein, FT)
- How a local squall might become a global tempest (Niall Ferguson, FT)
- Environmania (Daniel Henninger, WSJ)
- Obama: The man who would be McCain (Gary Bauer, Politico)
- I'm so bored with O-B-A-M-A (Walter Shapiro, Salon)
- Porn star for Obama (Ben Stein, TAS)
- Is there sinister subtext in McCain ads? (Michael Moynihan, Politico)
- Profanity greater on liberal blogs (Matthew Sheffield, Wash Times) The anger level seems higher as well.
- London: A huge new rail system is on the way (This Just In) What, they're not going to build their new rail line down busy streets? How not-world-class of London.
- Astros take chance on independent-league fireball pitcher (Jesus Ortiz, Houston Chronicle) This is what has become of a once pitching-proud franchise.
- Edouard was actually a good thing (Ken Hoffman, Houston Chronicle)
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 08/07/08 22:24 | Links | Technorati | Comments (0)
06 August 2008
Linkpost: 08/06/08
- He is who He is (Tony Blankley, RCP)
- The Green Hornet (WSJ)
- The Tax Rebate Was a Flop. Obama's Stimulus Plan Won't Work Either (Martin Feldstein, WSJ)
- Boone doggle (Holman Jenkins, WSJ) Bah, the WSJ's respected columnist just needs The Future to set him straight.
- A boon for Pickens, not for America (Gal Luft, LA Times)
- Guerilla Congress (Mark Hemingway, NRO)
- Anti-business states awash in red ink (Steven Malanga, RCM) Meanwhile, the nutroots would like to make Texas more like those states...
- Moqtada Packs It In (WSJ)
- Social Worker Sadr (Peter Wehner, Commentary)
- Faith's Real Riches (Michael Gerson, WaPo) So much "prosperity gospel" teaching is just positive self-help for people who seem to want/crave/need the same. It's not especially theological, but hey, whatever.
- Political Perils of a 'Big Sort'? (Robert Samuelson, WaPo) Did Samuelson read the book carefully, or skim it (because he seems to have missed some things)?
- From Joliet to powerful D.C. 'prince' (Neil Steinberg, CST)
- Will Airfares Drop With Oil Prices? (Rick Seaney, ABC News)
- The Missouri bellwether (Tom Rants)
- I question the Chronicle's patriotism (Unca Darrell)
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 08/06/08 23:17 | Links | Technorati | Comments (2)
05 August 2008
Linkpost: 08/05/08
- Stronger Than the Gulag (Anne Applebaum, WaPo)
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 1918-2008 (Christopher Hitchens, Slate)
- Of Good and Evil (WSJ)
- My bet with Francis Fukuyama (Bret Stephens, WSJ)
- Not Quite Ready to Go Home (Stephen Biddle, Michael O'Hanlon, & Kenneth Pollack, NY Times)
- Bruce Ivins Wasn't the Anthrax Culprit (Richard Spertzel, WSJ)
- Not the FBI's proudest moment (Gabriel Schoenfeld, LA Times)
- Obama, the postmodernist (Jonah Goldberg, USA Today)
- Where’s the Landslide? (David Brooks, NY Times)
- McCain's problem isn't Bush (William McGurn, WSJ)
- Republicans are trying to depict Obama as a pompous, out-of-touch snob (Jeff Greenfield, Slate) Like Kerry and Dukakis before him, Obama's not that hard to paint as a nothern liberal elitist.
- 'Sam's Club' voters called key to modern GOP (Stephen Dinan, Wash Times)
- Toilet Bowl Preparedness (Bayou City Madman)
- Noriega tries to dodge difficulties (Kelley Shannon, AP) Why do Texas Dems keep running these dreadful candidates for U.S. Senate?
- Playoffs still long shot for surging Astros (Richard Justice, Houston Chronicle) Is the obvious really column fodder?
- Umpire Wally Bell should be suspended; Berkman still slumps (Chron Baseball Blog) Then again, maybe that's preferable to the equivalent of a tantrum from an hysterical schoolgirl.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 08/05/08 23:25 | Links | Technorati | Comments (0)
04 August 2008
Linkpost: 08/04/08
- Witness: Solzhenitsyn vs. evil (Paul Kengor, NRO)
- Solzhenitsyn at Work (John McCain, The New York Sun)
- Understanding Solzhenitsyn: An NRO flashback (William F. Buckley, National Review) Buckley and conservatives got it, in the 70s no less.
- Israeli pre-emption better than Islamist cure (Spengler, Asia Times)
- Journalists, their lying sources, and the anthrax investigation (Glenn Greenwald, Salon)
- Anthrax and the FBI (WSJ)
- CHINA: Capacity and price distortions weigh on energy (Oxford Analytica)
- Ukraine clash threatens oil to Europe (Robert Cutler, Asia Times)
- Iraq: Security better, politics still suck (Economist)
- Brothers in Christ (Economist)
- The right way (James W. Ceaser, NY Post)
- How to Pick a V.P. (William Kristol, NY Times) Conservative evangelicals are already wary of McCain. Sticking them in the eye with someone like Ridge would be a sure way to defeat.
- The XX Factor : Obama Sells Out on Offshore Drilling (Melinda Henneberger, Slate)
- Crushing on Obama (Ramesh Ponnuru, Time)
- Obamanomics Clarified (Michael Boskin, WSJ)
- The Race Issue Isn't Going Away (Juan Williams, WSJ)
- It Really Isn’t Hard To Figure Out Why (Jennifer Rubin, Commentary.com)
- The future of conservative books (Harry Stein, City Journal)
- Microsoft sees end of Windows era (BBC News)
- House Goes Home, but Video Goes Online via Cellphone (Brian Stelter, NY Times)Rep. Culberson has become such a technowebgeek!
- Rice football aims for consistency in '08 (Moisekapenda Bower, Houston Chronicle) They were consistent last year -- consistently bad.
- Castiglione wants to patch things up, starting with '71 game reunion (Jake Trotter, Daily Oklahoman) Good moves by Castiglione. Callahan's last game in Norman was an unfortunate twist to a great and previously respectful rivalry. Oklahoma and Nebraska fans alike should be happy Clueless is gone.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 08/04/08 22:39 | Links | Technorati | Comments (0)
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