Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Instilling some caucus discipline – While the Dems getting a bit more partisan backbone has some attraction, adding more knee-jerk partisanship also has some disadvantages.
- Two speeds: slow and stop – It’s easy to scare the populace about something as fearworthy as health and health care. Finding a rhetorical handle on opposing bank regulation at this point in time is going to be a serious challenge, esp. during an election year.
- Cover for pro-life Dems? – It’s good to see that some Christian leaders — including those very much opposed to abortion — are willing to acknowledge (a) the current bill is a reasonable maintenance of the status quo (no matter how one feels about it) of federal support for abortion, and (b) the moral imperative of dealing with the un- and under-insured needs to be kept in mind through all of this, too.
- Air Force sergeant discharged under DADT after police see her marriage license and out her to the military. – Sure sounds like retaliation to me.
- A gentle reminder – The only upside is that so many clocks in the house now either auto-correct or have a “DST” switch to make the change easier.
- Is there anything more beautiful than Arabic calligraphy? – It is very pretty. The religious avoidance of much representational art in the Islamic world has led to calligraphy (as well as geometrics) becoming an art form in itself.
- Glenn Beck Discovers Springsteen is a Liberal : Dispatches from the Culture Wars – And Reagan liked the song, so he must have been Liberal Marxist Atheist Traitor, too. Unless it was … Reagan’s Evil Twin! That must be it!
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