Linkpost: 07/18/08
- The distraction of offshore drilling (Dianne Feinstein, LA Times) Trying to figure out comprehensive solutions to our energy security is a “distraction” to some pols who would rather be figuring out how to redistribute more of your income to more worthy recipients than yourself.
- Republicans rediscover ANWR (Mark Hyman, TAS)
- The Food Chain – As Price of Grain Rises, Catfish Farms Dry Up (David Streitfeld, NY Times) Another illustration of the food-as-fuel folly. We need to be working more on fuel as fuel, even if Sen. Feinstein thinks it’s a “distraction.”
- What Dems can't say about drilling (David Harsanyi, RCP)
- The Audacity of Vanity (Charles Krauthammer, WaPo)
- Obama's 'Judgment' (WSJ)
- GOP reformers face a tough fight (Kimberley Strassel, WSJ)
- Netroots nation: infiltrator in your midst (Karen Brooks, DMN) So utterly lame.
- More Iraqi ironies (Victor Davis Hanson, NRO)
- Turkey's Turmoil (Aliza Marcus & Andrew Apostolou, WaPo)
- Fannie and Freddie, damned by a Faustian bargain (John Eatwell & Avinash Persaud, FT)
- The rapid decline of the New York Times (Thomas Lifson, RCP)
- Inflection Point: What's the practical life span of DTV? (Robert Cringely, PBS.org)
- Houston pitches downtown flats, Yao's eatery to fight $4 fuel (Edward Klump, Bloomberg.com) The affluent people buying those nice new flats by the park that Mayor White built for them aren’t worried about fighting $4 fuel.
- Development must hinge on road capacity (Jim Wotten, Atlanta Journal-Constitution) Wow, can this guy come take over the Chron editorial page?
- What Mainstream Publishers Don't Want You to Know About Door-to-Door Magazine Sales (Craig Malisow, Houston Press) Interesting expose.
- As Beaches Creep In, Ownership Disputes Erupt (David Baron, NPR) The Open Beaches Act isn’t going to be declared a regulatory taking by the Supreme Court. It’s unfortunate that nature has claimed the property of these people, but them’s the breaks.
- KTLK host under fire for WNBA, gay comments (Nicole Muehlhausen, KSTP) Lesbian groups are the ones who have promoted kiss-offs. Why is it so incendiary to point this out?
