In which I brace myself and wade through the swamp of my backlogged Bloglines feeds, giving you the links that particularly catch my eye:
- Western Democrat: "Winning in the fly-over states."
- Dan Nexon calls for a "national transportation infrastructure commission" modelled on BRAC, given Congress' hopeless inability to deal. (I think there ought to be a limit to this government-by-commission fad -- instead let's vote so as to encourage responsible legislating from our constitutional institutions -- but the fact we've sunk to a condition where Dan's proposal seems sensible says a lot.)
- Gristmill: On a Seattle Times piece on global warming science.
- LOBG: Makes fun of GM as Toyota's car sales climb and everyone's SUV sales tank. "Who knew?" he asks. "Well, clearly not the clown who is GM's chief market analyst."
- Article III Groupie: "'We'll Always Have Dennys': The Romantic Misadventures of Harriet Ellen Miers.'
- Francis Beckwith: Right Reason blogger discovers a student newspaper editorial is badly written.
- phronesisiacal: The new World Bank Development Report has been released. With links.
- Counterterrorism: Al-Qaeda is trying to establish political influence in the Gaza Strip.
- Jurist: Susette Kelo encourages Congress to end government involvement in land seizures for private development.
- GovExec: "The Energy Department paid a contractor working on the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project millions of dollars in incentive fees even though the company failed to meet performance requirements...." Good old Bechtel.
- GovExec: Julie Meyers clear committee to eventually head ICE. Only two Democrats bother to show up to the vote.
- PRWatch: Horowtiz's ABOR goes national. PRWatch reports how some Republicans are trying to push it through Congress. Even the WSJ thinks it's stupid.
- E&P: Miller's suddenly "found" notebook which Miller on Libby conversations she volunteers to Fitzgerald. Once a martyr to her sources; now a middle finger to the one who let her sit in jail for 85 days?
- WaPo: Defense Intelligence Agency defends push for domestic covert power.
- Dana Milbank: Milbank chortles over the frosty right wing event at the White House honoring Bill Buckley.
- WSJ: Editorial argues there to be a bubble in oil prices. '$70? No prob.' Some cliche arguments we'll probably see reappearing as a consequence. Sebastian Mallaby argues otherwise. (But it looks like what we are seeing is the re-erection of the petrodollar recycling phenomenon of the 1970s, where oil dollars are recycled into UST bills to prop up American debt.)
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