Al-Qaida Confirms Deaths of Top 2 Figures in Iraq from AOL News
"An al-Qaida front group in Iraq has confirmed the killing of its two top leaders but vowed in a statement that its members were not cowed by their death and would continue to fight."
Obama Team Works to Head Off New Mideast War from Foreign Policy Magazine
"When U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Michele Sison met with Lebanese officials on Wednesday, she had a mission: She was there to urge Lebanon to help avoid a new outbreak of violence between Israel and the Shiite militant group Hezbollah."
Obama's Promise to Work with Foreign Governments (Kenneth Walsh) from US News and World Reports
"The nuclear security summit was the latest evidence that Obama ended the go-it-alone attitude."
Obama Most Popular World Leader, Poll Finds from the New York Times
"President Barack Obama remains by far the most popular world leader among people in major Western nations and is the one political figure on whom people consistently pin their hopes in the economic crisis, according to new polls conducted for the International Herald Tribune."
President Looks to Deepen Economic Ties to Muslim World from the Associated Press via Huffington Post
"Making good on a promise he made to the Muslim world last year, President Barack Obama will host an entrepreneurship summit next week to deepen ties between business people in the U.S. and Muslim countries."
Is China Heading for a Rural Revolt? (David Frum) from the National Post [of Canada]
"To raise rural living standards higher, Chinese agriculture will have to mechanize and modernize, substituting machines for people and merging little plots into larger fields. Think of what happened to southern sharecroppers between 1900 and 1950. Now multiply by about 70 times as many people. That’s China’s next revolution."
Bomb School from Foreign Policy Magazine
"How one little-noticed outcome of Obama's Nuclear Security Summit -- a new commitment to nuclear education and training -- could change the world."
Obama Lauds Auto Industry Rebound and Pushes for Financial Regulations from the Los Angeles Times
"The president says the auto bailout will cost taxpayers 'a fraction' of what had been feared. In his weekly address, he also urges Congress to pass his regulatory package to help avert new economic crises."
Fight On, Goldman Sachs! (Frank Rich) from the New York Times
"In just that week, the Party of No’s intransigent campaign of obstruction and obfuscation went belly up. The Obama White House moved to get its act together with an alacrity lacking in its health care campaign"
The Radical Center: The History of an Idea (Sam Tenenhaus) from the New York Times
"“These conflicting outlooks often reflected differences in education, ethnicity and religion. Put roughly, “radicals” were blue-collar Catholics, and “average middles” were white-collar Protestants."
Conservative Judge: AZ Immigration Law Will 'Bankrupt the Republican Party and the State' from Raw Story
"Hispanics -- who have a natural home in the Republican Party because they are socially conservative -- will flee in droves. She's also gonna bankrupt her state, because no insurance company will provide coverage for this. And for all the lawsuits that will happen -- for all the people that are wrongfully stopped -- her budget will be paying for it."
An on-the-money comment on the GOP's bone-headed move in AZ.
Groupthink at National Review (David Frum) from FrumForum
"How wonderful to return to a free country, I thought as I stepped off the plane from Beijing at Washington Dulles. No more censorship, no more official lies, no more kowtowing to high officials who gained power by their mindless repetition of party dogma… Then alas I opened my browser and read the dump-on-Manzi comments on NRO’s The Corner."
Incurious Bastards (Andrew Cohen) from the Atlantic
"We live in no such curious and noble times. Our political discourse is polluted by the sort of garbage tossed the way of Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) this week by an anti-immigration zealot. Our airwaves are populated with snake-oil salesmen trying to make the complex look easy. The "philosophy" offered by popular modern-day political thinkers is embarrasingly simple or already rejected."
Loose Tea (Comment) from the Nation
"Fed a steady diet of paranoia and emotional appeals to vague concepts like freedom and liberty, they appear uninterested in the details of governing, to which even the Republican Party's elite pay lip service, and unable to espouse a vision, however cramped, of collective interest. ... But it is hard to see how, in a nation still tilting toward the "have-not" column, the tea party approaches anything close to an enduring national political force."
SQUIRREL NUGGET!!
The Squirrel Whisperer from the Washington Post
"Spring is the busiest time of the year for wildlife rehabilitator Lynn Anderson of Waldorf."
I brought a baby squirrel to one of these animal rehabilitators in CT.
BOOKS NUGGET!!
Theodore Roosevelt, Empire Builder: A Review of Books from the New York Times
"These are books about men who wanted a war. Or at least the next best thing: a state of intimidation, fear, anxiety and excitement, which would produce the fruits of war, foremost among them order and peace."
New books on TR's foreign policy.
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