
| Gallup | Campaign 2012: Obama, Romney Each Has Economic Strengths With Americans |
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| Chi. Sun Times | New Tone: Inside Sunday’s violent clash between ‘Black Bloc’ anarchists, cops |
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| Power Line | Media Watch: “Is GOP trying to sabotage economy to hurt Obama?” |
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| WaPo | Shock: White House visitor logs provide window into lobbying industry |
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| Politico | Interesting: Obama super PAC slump continues |
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This just about sums up the average day for a blogger! Hat tip: Glenn
Via the Scotsman: NOAM Chomsky, the renegade linguistics professor who has become the lone voice of the left in the United States, has been voted the world’s No 1 living intellectual. In a poll organised by Prospect magazine in conjunction with the US publication Foreign Policy, Chomsky was voted the most influential thinker of the [...]
No, not this Wilma! But this one: Tropical Storm Wilma strengthened into a hurricane Tuesday on a path that could threaten Florida, tying the record for the most hurricanes to form in an Atlantic season. Wilma is the 12th hurricane of the season, a number reached once before in 1969 since record-keeping began in 1851. [...]
From Judy Miller’s Sunday editorial in the NYTimes: “It came in August 2003, shortly after I attended a conference on national security issues held in Aspen, Colo. After the conference, I traveled to Jackson Hole, Wyo. At a rodeo one afternoon, a man in jeans, a cowboy hat and sunglasses approached me. He asked me [...]
Via the UK Independent: Britons desperate to halt the ageing process are being injected with the stem cells of aborted foetuses at a clinic that charges £15,000 for a controversial new cosmetic treatment. Despite warnings from biologists in the UK that the process is unproven and could be harmful, dozens of British women have flown [...]
Little Green Footballs calls is “multiculturalism taken to its most absurd extreme.” I agree. Via SMH.com: A violent gang rapist should have been given a lesser sentence partly because he was a “cultural time bomb” whose attacks were inevitable, as he had emigrated from a country with traditional views of women, his barrister has argued. [...]