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"Why No Outrage?"
Posted 02:06 PM | 07.20.08
Isn't This a Little Much, Even for the UN?
Posted 01:59 PM | 07.20.08
Delusional Optimism on Lebanon
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Deep in the Heart of Wind
Posted 03:40 PM | 07.19.08
We Only Smoke Domestic
Posted 03:33 PM | 07.18.08
China, Binge Polluter
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TODAY: Saturday July 19, 2008
Deep in the Heart of Wind

One of the biggest challenges renewable energy has to overcome has less to do with science than with politics: It can be difficult to get regulatory approval to build the...

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We Only Smoke Domestic

Via KAL, who draws cartoons for the Economist, this gem:

 

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TODAY: Sunday July 20, 2008
Maliki's Endorsement

The fact that Iraq's prime Minister has endorsed, by name, Barack Obama's plan to withdraw most U.S. troops from his country in 16 months is a huge, huge deal. Most commentary has focused on the political repercussions -- as a GOP strategist succinctly put it to Marc Ambinder, &...

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The Lesson To Be Learned Now That America's Gone 'Dark Knight' Mad

The numbers are in, at least for Friday: The new Batman flick grossed an astonishing $66 million yesterday. According to biz expert Nikki Finke, the film is likely to gross over $150 million by the end of the weekend. 'Iron Man' and 'Indiana Jones 4' had been the summer's two...

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TODAY: Sunday July 20, 2008
Nunn Watch

Atlanta columnist dumps cold water on the notion that Obama could carry his state, though I'm not entirely convinced.

P.S. Potential Nunn competitor Evan Bayh gets snarked in today...

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Wheels Down In Afghanistan

Those of us covering the campaign got an e-mail from Obama communications strategist Robert Gibbs a little after 3 this morning saying Obama had landed in Afghanistan. The timing of the trip had previously been shrouded in secrecy for obvious security reasons. But, in retrospect, I probably should have put it together (as I'm sure many of my more observant colleagues did). A little over...

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TODAY: Sunday July 20, 2008
"Why No Outrage?"

James Grant is about as serious and as honest a financial commentator as there is on the American scene. His Grant's Interest Rate Observer, not a publication written for just plain you and me, is read by just about everybody I take seriously on Wall Street. He is a free marketeer not a government interventionist...

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Isn't This a Little Much, Even for the UN?

The guys in the blue helmets are from UNIFIL, the legion that has not been keeping the peace in Lebanon since 1978. 



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TODAY: Thursday July 17, 2008
If Only Tennis Ruled the World...

Ten days ago, I watched "Venus Wimbledon," as her family calls her, defeat her younger sister Serena for her fifth Wimbledon championship. One's pleasure in this, the best of the sisters' matches I've seen, was marred only by the self-gratulatory garrulity of Mary Carillo whom, year after year, NBC couples with the adolescent stooge, Ted Robinson, and the informed, surprisingly...

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Required Reading for the Pentagon


The most level-headed, wise and modestly self-assured of George W. Bush's appointees, Robert Gates, has proposed a Rooseveltian enrichment of the already de-Rumsfelded Pentagon: the funding of social scientists and other professional researchers to work on such problems as China and Iraq: According to yesterday's New York Times,  "Gates has compared the initiative...

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