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Links for July 28th through July 30th

Daily Links — del.icio.us on July 30, 2007 at 5:45 pm

A War We Just Might Win - We are finally getting somewhere in Iraq, at least in military terms.
Who?s a Nerd, Anyway? - Someone very, very white, for one thing.
Surveillance Cameras Win Broad Support - 71% of Americans welcome Big Brother with open arms
INTERNET HATE MACHINE - DESTROY - DIE - ATTACK
The Americans Have Landed - A few years ago, with little fanfare, the United States opened a base in the horn of Africa to kill or capture Al Qaeda fighters. By 2012, the Pentagon will have two dozen such forts. The story of Africa Command.

Links for July 26th through July 27th

Daily Links — del.icio.us on July 27, 2007 at 5:35 pm

Is He Good for the Libertarians? - Why some libertarians don’t want to join the Ron Paul revolution.
The world’s worst suicide bombers - In the spring of 2006, 72% of suicide bombers in Afghanistan killed only themselves.
Robert A. Heinlein’s Legacy - As they say on the moon, “There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch!”
Medical Misnomer - Addiction isn’t a brain disease, Congress.
In San Francisco, It?s 5 to 1 for 666 - The city?s Taxicab Commission voted to keep the number 666 affixed to an allegedly cursed cab, despite the driver?s plea to have it changed.

Links for July 25th

Daily Links — del.icio.us on July 25, 2007 at 5:46 pm

TSA: Terrorists may conduct dry runs - Security officers alerted to possibility of airport attack after seizures
Syria Occupies Lebanon. Again. - A land grab proportionally equivalent to a foreign power occupying Arizona.
In Iraq, liberals flip on genocide - In the 1990s, they argued for humanitarian foreign intervention where there was little U.S. interest.
Dead farmers getting subsidies - The U.S. Agriculture Department has been paying farm subsidies to thousands of people who are dead, in some cases for many years
Six Reasons to Kill Farm Subsidies and Trade Barriers - A no-nonsense reform strategy.

Links for July 24th

Daily Links — del.icio.us on July 24, 2007 at 5:30 pm

Politics and Public Health - Former Surgeon General Richard Carmona has his own problems with politicizing science.
Harley Woos Female Bikers - Women are buying more motorcycles than ever, and Harley-Davidson is going after that market with a vengeance.
U.S. Is Seen in Iraq Until at Least ?09 - The American command in Baghdad has prepared a detailed classified plan that calls for restoring security in local areas by the summer of 2008.
Outsourcing the Picket Line - Carpenters Union Hires Homeless to Stage Protests
Doubts Raised on Magazine?s ?Baghdad Diarist? - Has The New Republic falled for another Stephen Glass?
Site That Bills Itself as a Movie Reviewer Finds That Sex Sells - Mr. Skin.com, a Web site that features Hollywood nude scenes, is getting a bump in visitors thanks to the movie ?Knocked Up.?
Spitzer?s Staff Misused Police, Report Finds - New York Times - New York Governor used state police against political rivals.

Links for July 23rd

Daily Links — del.icio.us on July 23, 2007 at 5:47 pm

Labor of Love - A battle to cut government oversight of union spending.
In defense of dangerous ideas - In every age, taboo questions raise our blood pressure and threaten moral panic. But we cannot be afraid to answer them.
Can trees grow on Mars? - Scientists seek an answer by studying forests on a Mexican volcano
Marie-Antoinette Goes to Hollywood - Life in LaLa Land
Cop Killers in High Places - When newspapers and black leaders assault the police, small wonder that criminals follow suit.
The Galloway Papers - Parliament’s damning report about Saddam apologist George Galloway
China’s Space Weapons - Beijing, space, and global primacy
Iraq isn’t Vietnam, Henry - If any previous model of peacemaking applies to Iraq (and that’s a big if), the one we should look at is Korea
The 9/11 Generation - Better than the Boomers.
Reform, the FDR way - Democrats are right to revere Roosevelt, but even he knew when to reform his own reforms.
In the Heart of Freedom, in Chains - Elite hypocrisy, gangsta culture, and failure in black America
Contempt and Congress - The Democrats’ attack on executive privilege shows blatant disregard for the Constitution.
In reversal, Canada dabbles with health care privatization - Just a the push for government healthcare gets started in the United States

Links for July 20th through July 21st

Daily Links — del.icio.us on July 21, 2007 at 5:34 pm

The John Edwards Road to One America Poverty Tour - This Motherfuckers Are Poor!
Oxford students’ trial by Facebook - Oxford University staff are logging on to Facebook and using evidence they find on student profiles to discipline students
John Burns, of The New York Times, on Charlie Rose - Burns talks about the consequences of pulling out of Iraq

Links for July 16th through July 19th

Daily Links — del.icio.us on July 19, 2007 at 5:35 pm

Irritation grows over taxes - Norwegians have long accepted high taxes to finance their social welfare state, but a new survey indicates rising dissatisfaction and, in some cases, outright hatred of some taxes that are viewed as way too high and unfair.
Michael Vick Indicted - Feds: Falcons QB, cohorts executed pit bulls that failed fight tes
John Edwards Vows To End All Bad Things By 2011 - A promise to eliminate all unpleasant, disagreeable, or otherwise bad things from all aspects of American life by the end of his second year in office.

Links for July 13th

Daily Links — del.icio.us on July 13, 2007 at 5:32 pm

Cheney Speaks - On Clinton’s pardons, 9/11 as seen from the White House bunker, mistakes made in Iraq, and more.
Automatic License Plate Recognition - Demo video made by Canadian Law Enforcement on how ALPR works
The Island of Forgotten Diseases - Vozrozhdeniye, the Soviet Biological Warfare Laboratory
Dressed to the Nines - A history of the baseball uniform
Ten Worst Things to do During a Zombie Outbreak - Don?t get sentimental. Zombies won?t.
For Parking Space, the Price Is Right at $225,000 - As real estate elsewhere languishes, Manhattan property is still escalating in price, and that includes parking spots.
Do Kids Need a Summer Vacation? - Why our schoolchildren get to take three months off.
The New Victorians - They Fall in Love, Dear Reader, Buy Strollers, Hire Cooks?Heath, Michelle, Liv, Nicole Join Prissy New Bourgeoisie! ?We?ve Leaped to Our Parents? Level of Success Right Away?

Links for July 5th through July 12th

Daily Links — del.icio.us on July 12, 2007 at 5:48 pm

Those Were the Days - Will nostalgia sweep the Clintons back into the White House?
Dissonance at the Times - Reporting success, deciding on failure.
Click Your Way to an Architect-Designed House - Architects who sell their designs on the Web say that the second-home shopper is a sought-after customer.
About that huge salary: It’s a longshot - Most law grads face lower pay and debt.
The Most Popular Governor - Alaska’s Sarah Palin is the GOP’s newest star.
Balmy Weather May Bench a Baseball Staple - Will the Ash baseball be a bygone?
In Economics Departments, a Growing Will to Debate Fundamental Assumptions - In recent months, economists have engaged in an impassioned debate over the way their specialty is taught at universities and practiced in Washington.
The case for mistrusting Muslims - The latest terror plots are confronting tolerant Britons with uncomfortable choices.
Message in a Bottle - Americans spent more money last year on bottled water than on ipods or movie tickets: $15 Billion. A journey into the economics–and psychology–of an unlikely business boom. And what it says about our culture of indulgence.

Links for June 28th through July 3rd

Daily Links — del.icio.us on July 3, 2007 at 5:30 pm

Don’t Mince Words - The London car-bomb plot was designed to kill women.
Integration Defeats Quotas - Did the Supreme Court “Roll Back” Brown vs. Board of Education?
A new study says juries get verdicts wrong in one of six cases - Both judges and juries are far more likely to send an innocent person to jail than to let a guilty person go free

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