A scene from the Darfur region of Sudan.
In American Politics, Stupidity is the Name of the Game (E.J. Dionne) from the Washington Post
"Can a nation remain a superpower if its internal politics are incorrigibly stupid?"
Nuking the Messenger (Jacob Heilbrunn) from Foreign Policy Magazine
"My critics contend that I couldn't have got it more wrong: intellectual ferment is alive and well in the Grand Old Party. The very unanimity of my reviewers' attacks, however, underscores my original point."
TOUCHE!!
Hillary Clinton Changes America's China Policy (Gordon Chang) from Forbes Magazine
"China has claimed virtually all that body of water as its own. By doing so, Beijing has said it has sovereignty over the continental shelves of the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia, Taiwan and Vietnam."
Time is Running Out for Palestine (Editorial) from the Daily Star [of Lebanon in English]
"The time has come for Palestinians to also see eye to eye about another predicament, which has been infinitely more damaging: that by remaining divided, they are stuck with a losing strategy."
Why Turkey Still Gets a Cold Shoulder from the EU (Leo Cendrowicz) from Time Magazine
"Turks grumble about the delays, many suspecting that the E.U. has been dangling false promises over the years. This week, however, their frustrations found an echo from within the E.U. itself."
Opposition to Health Care Overhaul Declining from the Washington Post
"Opposition to the landmark health care overhaul declined over the past month, to 35 percent from 41 percent, according to the latest results of a tracking poll, reported Thursday. Fifty percent of the public held a favorable view of the law, up slightly from 48 percent a month ago, while 14 percent expressed no opinion about the measure, according to the poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation."
Health Insurance Reform and the Mid-Terms (Andrew Sullivan) from the Atlantic
"Need more proof Republicans are out of the mainstream? Polls on health care reform show how the GOP is splitting away from the rest of the country."
Peter Orzag's Last Words: Obama's Budget Chief Exits (Dayo Olopade) from the Daily Beast
"As Obama’s budget chief heads for the exits, he spoke to Dayo Olopade about why a bigger stimulus was politically impossible—and the administration’s plans for the Bush tax cuts."
The Stupidity of Liberal Apathy (Jonathan Cohn) from the Nation
"The left has to show some enthusiasm, if not locally then at least nationally. ... Otherwise office-holders, even ones from relatively liberal districts, won't have much incentive to vote liberal next time around."
Democratic Message: We May be Incompetent, But They're Crazy (Marc Ambinder) from the Atlantic
"Good party messages are organic, and they are not announced. Fortunately for Democrats, theirs just sort of came along, thanks to the Tea Party movement, which has invited into politics hecklers and cranks and fairly fringe candidates who are currently hurting the Republican Party in several key states."
Iowa Embraces Plan to Strip Obama's Citizenship for Accepting Nobel Prize from the Huffington Post
"Newsweek's Jerry Adler has paged through some "387 enumerated planks" of the Republican Party of Iowa's platform and, among the instances of "North American Union" paranoia and the upholding of manure as the only agricultural poop inveighed by its creator with American exceptionalism, is a bizarre plan to strip President Barack Obama of his citizenship for accepting the Nobel Peace Prize. What the what?"
Will Sherrod Win Her Suit Against Breitbart? from the Atlantic
"Though it's not exactly clear what she'll be suing him for, commentators are mulling over defamation law trying to predict the likely outcome."
Ta-Nehisi Coates of the Atlantic has more thoughts HERE.
Review: Obama on 'The View' (Michelle Cottle) from the Nation
"Say this for the president: He knows how to charm the ladies. Obama’s sit down on “The View” this morning seemed to go about as smoothly as one could hope."
NORTHWEST PASSAGE NUGGET!!
HMS Investigator, Ship Lost for More Than 150 Years, Recovered in Canada from the Associated Press via the Huffington Post
"Canadian archeologists have found a ship abandoned more than 150 years ago in the quest for the fabled Northwest Passage and which was lost in the search for the doomed expedition of Sir John Franklin, the head of the team said Wednesday."
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