Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- 2006 GOP Report Attacking Basis For Climate Change Plagiarized 1999 Textbook Of Scientist It Criticized – Stay classy, Joe Barton!
- Obama forces gay visitation policy. This is an unmitigated good thing. : Greg Laden’s Blog – Cue the Social Right screaming about “violating hospitals’ freedom of religion by forcing them to support sodomy” in 5 … 4 … 3 …
- Bigot Tired of Being Called a Bigot [Dispatches from the Culture Wars] – It would be interesting to hear his (hypothetical) thought process on why the term doesn’t apply. Aside from, “Nobody’s ever called me that before.”
- Why McCain-Lieberman ’08 wasn’t going to work out – An interesting bit of alternate history …
- Bachmann Stands By Charge That Obama Is ‘Anti-American’ And Her Lie About Obama’s India Trip Costs – Is Michelle Bachmann a dolt? Looking at her very delicate dancing around these accusations, maybe she’s just a not-very-clever liar.
- Obama acknowledges air traveler frustration with TSA – Here’s yet another area where communications are lacking. The increasingly-vocal decreasingly-minority complaining about this are simply not convinced that this is, in fact, the proper course — that subjecting people to an X-ray machine that still raises questions from scientists hardly on the fringe, the fall-back being a grotesquely intrusive search, is the least-worst way of attaining a reasonable and necessary level of security. And I expect this will become even more of an issue as the holiday season continues.
- Warren Buffett: Cut Taxes For Middle And Lower Classes; Rich Should Pay Much More – As Mr Buffett puts it: “The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we’ll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.”
- Saudi ‘Anti-Semitic’ Curriculum Taught To Thousands Of Students In UK – I suspect one could find similar things in various ostensibly Christian schools in the United States.
- 1,000 sqft secret chamber discovered in Indian National Library – Oooh … hopefully it will be more interesting than Al Capone’s “Vault” …
- Debt Doesn’t Matter – TIME – “Oddly, few would argue against deficit spending in a time of war: crises demand different approaches. But economic crises touch more-discordant chords. The Tea Party has woven a story of government overreach that includes deficits, health care, job loss and general disdain for Washington and Wall Street elitism. It’s a simple narrative fueled by legitimate outrage at the cozy system of influence that characterizes politics today. But as economic policy, it is the 2010 version of what the blind, rigid bankers of the 1920s and ’30s offered—and it will sink an already leaking ship.”
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