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Classically Liberal (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
The New York Times has an interesting editorial regarding the food crisis in the world. And they have come to some important and rare conclusions. I say the conclusions are rare because they are correct. And, unfortunately, when it comes to economic issues, the Times rarely gets it right. Of course, old habits die hard so they do manage to get parts of the editorial wrong. The very correct point they...
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The "M" Word - Marketing Libraries (Free subscription) | yesterday
NYTimes tip of the week July 3 2008.jpg , originally uploaded by nancydowd . "Summer is a great time to catch up on your reading. You might even be able to look up books available at your library — before you leave the house — with the WorldCat database at www.worldcat.org. Type in a title and follow the screens to supply your address so you can find the book in the library nearest you. WorldCat, a...
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Brad Pitt Celebrity News (Free subscription) | yesterday
British comedian catches former Mossad official off guardInternational Herald Tribune, France - 1 hour agoThe questioner compared the Mideast conflict to the spat between actor Brad Pitt's former and current wives. Alpher says only later did he learn that the …
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WorkAtHome (Free subscription) | yesterday
Los Angeles Times Suburbia's not dead yetLos Angeles Times, CA - 31 minutes agoMore numerous will be those who work at home part time. Nearly 29 million Americans telecommute at least once a month, according to WorldatWork, …
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Say Anything (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Do we really want these chuckleheads running our country ? Some of the Democratic missteps started soon after planning for the event began. The Democratic National Convention Committee decided not to take cheap office space and instead rented top-quality offices in downtown Denver at $100,000 a month, only to need less than half the space, which it then filled with rental furniture at $50,000 a month....
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Half Sigma (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
An immigration article in today’s NY Times demonstrates the Times’ left-wing bias on all issues immigration. (See my previous blog post about the official NY Times position on immigration.) The tone of the article is that businesses are being hurt...
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The Corner (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Post, which supports the result in the Supreme Court's Kennedy v. Louisiana decision invalidating the death penalty for rape, concedes (in an editorial yesterday) that the case should be reconsidered in light of the error on which the ruling was based. Relevant to the issue we've talked about here and on Bench Memos, the Post says it takes the vote of five justices to rehear a case -- although...
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The Bluegrass Blog (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Thanks go out to our friend Bill Evans, west coast banjoist and renowned instructor of the five string, for pointing us to this fine review of a free show by Cherryholmes in New York City’s Madison Square Park this past Wednesday evening. As Bill had suggested, it was interesting to read this review of a [...]
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Grasping Reality with Both Hands (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Outsourced to Nate of FiveThirtyEight.com: > FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right: Irresponsible Journalism Alert: It took more than four months, but something finally beat out the Vicki Iseman story for its sheer chutzpah and utter irresponsibility. The culprit is [Joe Stephens's] piece from the Washington Post, which alleges that Barack Obama received a "discount" on his 30-year...
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Grasping Reality with Both Hands (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Can there be any conceivable, possible reason for a newspaper in good faith to publish this: > Maureen Dowd, July 2, 2008: [Barack Obama] would like to kid around with reporters for a minute, but knows he’s going to be peppered with on-the-record minutiae designed to feed the insatiable maw of blogs and Internet news.... He’s an American who has climbed to the most rarefied stratosphere of American...
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NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Why would the New York Times divulge information that could prove harmful to the national security of the United States? Because, so consumed is the paper by its hatred of President Bush, that the Times actually wants America to lose. Such is the considered opinion Jim Pinkerton expressed on yesterday's Fox News Watch. The case in point was an article the Times published on June 30, 2008, Amid U.S....
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TJ's Double Play (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
"Perhaps for the first time in his life, Senator Barack Obama may have reason to commiserate with the likes of Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh and George Allen. They surely could tell him a few stories about what it is like...
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Althouse (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
It's absolutely right: The majority determined that capital punishment for child rape was unconstitutional, in part because a national consensus had formed against it. As evidence, the court noted that "37 jurisdictions -- 36 States plus the Federal Government -- have the death penalty. [But] only six of those jurisdictions authorize the death penalty for rape of a child." Actually, only two years...
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Ballbug (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ben Shpigel / New York Times : For the Up-and-Down Mets, a Win Includes a Little of Both — PHILADELPHIA — The Mets have alternated losing and winning over their last eight games, giving up ground in the standings as quickly as they gained it back. So in keeping with the dominant theme of the season, it was fitting that …