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  • Tax Day fix requires more than 'tea parties' (John Kass, Chicago Tribune)
  • 10 years later, the real story behind Columbine (Greg Toppo, USA Today)
  • There He Goes Again! Kmiec's Latest Obamapology (Matthew Franck, Moral Accountability)
  • Now we're just haggling over his price (Brothers Judd) He's a pretty cheap faux-lifer, but maybe he got a tingle up his leg. *shrug*
  • Brave New Barbarism (George Neumayr, TAS)
  • And Spengler is... (Spengler, Asia Times)
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  • Bad ideas are the result when good ideas are plundered (Texas Republic News)
  • Planned Parenthood Matters (Kathryn Jean Lopez, NRO)
  • Kill the Pirates (Fred C. Iklé, WaPo)
  • Obama's 'Post-Material' Economy (Robert J. Samuelson, WaPo)
  • Everyone should pay income taxes (Ari Fleischer, WSJ)
  • The Free World Bars Free Speech (Jonathan Turley, WaPo)
  • Surviving in Obama's post-US world (Caroline Glick, RCP)
  • The Great Left Smear Machine (Rowan Scarborough, Human Events)
  • The End of Private Health Insurance (WSJ)
  • As American as little Bangladesh (Gregory Rodriguez, LA Times)
  • Nice self-caricature (Brothers Judd)
  • Scholars on the Sidelines (Joseph Nye, WaPo) Having an unhealthy interest in policy is generally not a recipe for success in academia. Ask my old prof Jay Greene how well that worked at UH.
  • He Said, She Said Journalism: Lame Formula in the Land of the Active User (Jay Rosen, Press Think)
  • Making old media new again (L. Gordon Crovitz, WSJ)
  • Obama to allow travel, money transfers to Cuba (Jennifer Loven, AP) My eventual trip to Cuba seems as if it won't have that thrill of lawbreaking!
  • American tourists at home in Cuba (Tracy Wilkinson, LA Times)
  • Call of Islam fades for Indonesian voters (John Aglionby, FT)
  • Chavez accused of power grab (Benedict Mander, FT)
  • Sri Lanka's war: Out of the Tigers' cage (Economist)
  • Nigeria: What if the president goes? (Economist)
  • In Indonesian election, secular parties confirm appeal (Simon Montlake, CSM)
  • Persian New Year to bring U.S.-Iran thaw? (Scott Peterson, CSM)
  • Central African Republic cattle fair dispute kills 20 (BBC News)
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  • Jim nauseam (Steven Stark, Boston Phoenix)
    Yes, both made some missteps in their first few months. But the truth is a president could do a lot worse than Jimmy Carter in his first 100 days. In fact, Obama already has.
  • The Peter Principle Lives (Robert Sutton, BusinessWeek)
  • Obama's attack machine (Kimberley Strassel, WSJ)
  • Against Narrowcasting: Radio as it was and might yet be (Mark Gauvreau Judge, Books and Culture)
  • Iraq journal, part one: My arrival in Sulaimani, Kurdistan (Jerry Weinberger, City Journal) I still desperately want to go visit Kurdistan.
  • Can Pakistan Be Governed? (James Traub, NY Times Mag)
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  • Will NPR Save the News? (Anya Kamenetz, Fast Company)
  • Socializing media in order to save it (Adam Thierer, City Journal)
  • The New York Times on the Precipice (Mark Bowden, Vanity Fair)
  • The economics of newspapers are so screwed up (Brothers Judd)
  • The Civil Heretic - Freeman Dyson (Nicholas Dawidoff, NY Times)
  • Radio-Free Swat Valley (Douglas J. Feith & Justin Polin, WSj)
  • The Real Afghan Issue Is Pakistan (Graham Allison & John Deutch, WSJ)
  • Obama's False Choice (Mark Steyn, NRO)
  • Learning the hard way (Economist)
  • What happens if your 15 minutes are up but you still have four years to serve? (Brothers Judd)
  • Don't blame you, don't blame me, blame that fella behind that tree (Brothers Judd)
  • Cap and trade war (WSJ)
  • Take Away Restaurant Fail (Fail Blog)
  • The Nature of Government (David Henderson, EconLog)
  • Robert Parker's Bitch (Josh Hermsmeyer/PinotBlogger) Be sure to watch the video.
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  • Why KIPP schools work (Jay Mathews, City Journal)
  • Breaking the Gridlock on How We Pay for Roads (Fred Hiatt, WaPo) We don't want to pay for the basics. It's more important to pols to pay off special interest groups and engage in wealth redistribution while the country's infrastructure falls apart.
  • The Brokest Generation (Mark Steyn, NRO)
  • Bear Stearns: The Fed's Original 'Systemic Risk' Sin (James Freeman, WSJ)
  • Massachusetts Faces Costs of Big Health Care Plan (Kevin Sack, NY Times)
  • New Progressive America? A response to Ruy Teixeira (Jay Cost, RCP)
  • Obama tightens reins on capital (Manu Raju & Mike Allen, Politico)
  • The Republicans can take heart as Barack Obama staggers to the Left (Janet Daley, Telegraph) The country, not so much.
  • Does Obama know what he's doing? (Dick Morris & Eileen McGann, RCP)
  • Cramer v. Stewart (Mark Hemingway, NRO)
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  • Obama's radicalism is killing the DOW (Michael Boskin, WSJ)
  • Obama's Radical Scheme Puts Country At Risk While Financial System Collapses (Michael Barone, US News)
  • Obama and the schools: It's time to stand up to the teachers' unions (WSJ) The next time Obama stands up to a libDem interest group will be the first.
  • Who pays for cap and trade? (WSJ) We all do!
  • The Great Destabilization (Mark Steyn, NRO)
  • President Obama's Double Talk (Robert Samuelson, WaPo)
  • Obama's search for an enemy (Michael Goodwin, NY Daily News)
  • Not quite like being the 100th Senator (Brothers Judd)
  • The Obama Moment (Russell Saltzman, First Things)
  • Obama's Left Turn (Stuart Taylor, National Journal)
  • The great non sequitur (Charles Krauthammer, WaPo)
  • Geithner, With Few Aides, Faces a Wave of Challenges (Edmund Andrews & Stephen Labaton, NY Times) So can any of the media cheerleaders now admit it wasn't the smoothest transition in history (you know, like they reported), and in fact one of the most important executive offices remains barely staffed?
  • Why Do Conservatives Eat Their Own? (Lone Star Times) Hmm, kind of a funny question from the folks who shriek "RINO" at anyone who doesn't meet the definition of a KDAN Conservative.
  • On Going Galt (WillWilkinson.net)
  • A Toast To Roses & Tangerines (Cepage Noir)
    March 2008 came so quickly. That month began to mark a world that remains completely unexplainable for me. I look back to a time now only two years past and I can barely recognize the man in the mirror.
    Obviously it's not my livelihood on the line, but maybe March 2008 didn't mark a sea change in people so much as a reaction to a slowing economy? People look for bargains when the economy slows.
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  • They can at least give us tips on how to avoid paying our taxes (Brothers Judd) Nice!
  • Why I miss Bill Clinton (Steve Chapman, RCP)
  • Obama's safety net: the TelePrompter (Carol E. Lee, Politico)
  • Presidential bait-and-switch (Karl Rove, WSJ)
  • The Immature White House (Jay Cost, RCP) These guys admit their only executive experience was running a campaign. At least they're sticking with what they know.
  • The tired war on Rush Limbaugh (Jonah Goldberg, LA Times)
  • Team Obama’s Petty Limbaugh Strategy (Michael Scherer, Swampland)
  • Obama: The great divider? (Victor Davis Hanson, RCP)
  • Has Obama buried Reagan? (Daniel Henninger, WSJ)
  • Genuine Trumps Gimmick (Stolen Thunder)
  • Money for nothing (Marcus Winters, City Journal)
  • Will Obama stand up for these kids? (William McGurn, WSJ) The next time Obama bucks a liberal interest group will be the first.
  • Deficits and fiscal credibility (Evan Bayh, WSJ)
  • Obama's Middle-Class Task Force Has No Middle Class (Claire Suddath, Time)
  • A Moderate Manifesto (David Brooks, NY Times) Well, isn't it nice that the Buckley/Brooks intellectual set is having buyer's remorse? Sorry, boys -- you've made your bed (or better, messed it). Now lie in it.
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  • Republican Road to Recovery (Paul Ryan, WSJ)
  • The Audacity of Nope (Christopher Buckley, The Daily Beast)
  • Steele to Rush: I'm sorry (Mike Allen, Politico)
    “I went back at that tape and I realized words that I said weren’t what I was thinking,” Steele said. "It was one of those things where I thinking I was saying one thing, and it came out differently.
    From a Republican president who can't speak coherently to a GOP chair. Nice!
  • Obama's economic kick-start will quadruple US deficit (Rupert Cornwell, Independent)
  • The budget reveals the liberal Obama (Clive Crook, FT)
  • Gorbachev smiles (Brothers Judd)
  • Separation of Kirk and State (Brothers Judd)
  • 'Potential' Disruption? (WaPo) The next time that Obama stands up to a liberal interest group will be... the first.
  • Building a strategic partnership (Lisa Curtis, Front Page Mag) Surely the Obama Administration can't screw up the relationship W built with India. Surely.
  • Pakistan's politics: Just like the bad old days (Economist)
  • Financing the Louvre when Mona Lisa gets Tossed Out (Cepage Noir) How about those last two grafs?
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  • How Democracy Ruined the Bailout Plan (Holman Jenkins, WSJ)
  • Cheering for Obama stimulus buys into the 1930s myth (Amity Shlaes, Bloomberg)
  • Deregulation and the financial panic (Phil Gramm, WSJ)
  • Drowning by fire hose (George Will, WaPo)
  • GM's plan: Subsidize our 48-year-old retirees (Paul Ingrassia, WSJ)
  • 'Hair of the Dog' Stimulus (Daniel Henninger, WSJ)
  • Dukes of moral hazard (WSJ)
  • Analysis: Democrats self-destructing over ethics (Larry Margasak, AP) The party in power may change, but the nature of politics and the nature of man do not.
  • Obama's governing style (Tony Blankley, RCP)
  • The White House's missing documents (Josh Gerstein, Politico) Imagine the outcry if W had tried this....
  • Just a month in and little remains of the candidate (Brothers Judd)
  • Sure, but look what happened when we refused to limit phlogiston emissions (Brothers Judd)
  • Nation of cowards? (Heather MacDonald, City Journal)
  • Obama's supine diplomacy (Charles Krauthammer, WaPo)
  • We're Not OK, Jack (Quin Hillyer, TAS)
  • Headless Body in Legless Story (Mark Steyn The Corner)
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  • Stimulus Plan Caters to the Privileged Public Sector (Joel Kotkin, New Geography)
  • The Stimulus Made Easy (Something Fishie)
  • Don't believe the stimulus scaremongers (Ama Bhide, WSJ)
  • Chicoms to the right of him.... (Brothers Judd)
  • The Audacity of Irony (Victor Davis Hanson, NRO)
  • Obama, an economic unilateralist (Spengler, Asia Times)
  • The TARP Trojan Horse (Theodore H. Frank, TAS)
  • Harvard narcissists with MBAs killed Wall Street (Kevin Hassett, Bloomberg)
  • Is Obamania stopping us from questioning Obama's competence? (Gil Troy, History News Network)
  • It's too dangerous to allow him off script (Brothers Judd)
  • Does he whistle the Colonel Bogie march to himself? (Brothers Judd)
  • An Obama-Reagan presidency? (Paul Kengor, Front Page Mag)
  • What Barack Obama should tell the Iranian people (Christopher Hitchens, Slate) W should have gone to Tehran to speak directly to the Iranian people (whom the mullahs fear). With his hawkish cred, he could have. Obama will have a much tougher time pulling it off.
  • The plight of the left-wing talkers (Philip Terzian, Weekly Standard)
  • The man who negotiates with oil militants (Andrew Walker, BBC News) I don't think I want his job.
  • Pakistan makes a Taliban truce, creating a haven (Jane Perlez, IHT)

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