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First, some good news: Hamas Leader's Son Among 19 Killed in Israeli-Palestinian Conflicts. Now if we can just keep climbing that ladder...

Karl Rove was Satan incarnate. The Evil High Dark Master of dirty politics. So loved is he that now Hillary is imitating him. Lawrence Lessig calls this Clinton Swiftboating.

More about her raw, naked ambition.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/01/we-know-these-p.html




For Sen. Clinton, something is true if it validates the myth of her striving and her "greatness" (her overweening ambition in other words) and only ceases to be true when it no longer serves that limitless purpose...What does matter is that she has since altered her position and attempted, with her husband's help, to make people forget that she ever held it. And this, on a grave matter of national honor and security, merely to influence her short-term standing in the Iowa caucuses. Surely that on its own should be sufficient to disqualify her from consideration? Indifferent to truth, willing to use police-state tactics and vulgar libels against inconvenient witnesses, hopeless on health care, and flippant and fast and loose with national security: The case against Hillary Clinton for president is open-and-shut.


Abu Dhabi: East Leans West. I've something of a soft spot for the UAE. For reasons too long and complicated to go into here, I was headed there after college to make my way but never went. I've kept a close eye on both Abu Dhabi and Dubai as they were the two places I was considering. The other Emirates range between quiet, backwards and downright medieval *cough*Sharjah*cough*. The article is a very salient assessment of Abu Dhabi and why it's important. Why we should be embracing them and not Saudi Arabia. The benefit of globalization is that we can link our future with those who would often not be obvious partners and in some cases, enemies. In so doing, we lessen the likelihood of conflict.

Remind me again, why didn't I send my kids to day care? Key quote:

A criminal background check was done on Pettus before he was hired at the day care center. "Everything checked out and nothing prohibited him from working there," Smack said.



Putting the rest the myths of energy independence.
Frankly this one merits its own post but the importance of this mythbusting cannot be understated. Energy independence isn't a bad idea but it isn't the panacea that we think it is.

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