True to His Word (James Kloppenberg) from Newsweek
"Note to critics: Read (or reread) his books. Obama is doing just what he said he would do."
Obama: Senate Approval of START is 'Imperative' This Year from the National Journal
""We cannot afford to gamble on our ability ot verify Russia's strategic nuclear arms," he said, jumping into the White House's continued offensive to get the treaty through the Senate."
He should GO TO THE MAT for this treaty -- it really is too important to let it slide away.
Obama's Choice: Military Quagmires or Economic Opportunities (Leon Hader) from the Huffington Post
""The Americans don't have to oust regimes, to invade countries or to remake our region in order to maintain their trade and military presence in Asia," the diplomat noted, adding: "In fact, we are pleading with them to become even more engaged in the lucrative economic frontier of Southeast Asia while they seem be drawn into the never-ending strife in Southwest Asia" [where the "Middle East" is if you look at it from East Asia]. "
Normally I don't link to any of the ever-expanding cast of Huffington Post "columnists" -- but Hader was on-the-money here -- and seems to have a relevant background.
Sticking it to the Unemployed from the Editorial Board of the Los Angeles Times
"Cutting off extended benefits for the unemployed not only hurts individuals who've been laid off but could dampen the economic recovery."
A Victory for the Rule of Law (Adam Serwer) from the Washington Post
"The verdict yesterday in the case of former Gitmo detainee Ahmed Ghailani, who stood accused of helping facilitate the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, was a victory for the rule of law. Conservatives arguing that the trial was a failure because Ghaliani was acquitted on most of the charges are missing the point -- the integrity of American justice is more important than any single conviction, and, as it stands, Ghailani will very likely spend the rest of his life in prison for his crimes."
How GM IPO Proves the Tea Party Wrong (Editorial) from Newsweek
"The Tea Party and its predecessors, who eschewed federal loans to GM, simply got it wrong, failing to perceive that a "bailout" can just as easily be called an "investment." What we have is not perfect, but it's far better than what might have been."
Ohhh, America, You're So Strong (Matt Miller) from the Washington Post
"Oooh, you're so strong, baby, so handsome. You're the greatest. I'm talking about you, America. You're . . . why, you're exceptional! Does anyone else think there's something a little insecure about a country that requires its politicians to constantly declare how exceptional it is? A populace in need of this much reassurance may be the surest sign of looming national decline."
I could not have mocked it better!!
Climate Scientists Strike Back from Mother Jones Magazine
"A year after ClimateGate, can a trio of scientists clear the air of global warming misinformation?"
US Sen: 2012 Senate Battles on Democratic Turf from Roll Call
"An early look at the 2012 landscape shows Democratic incumbents are the most vulnerable heading into the next cycle, with double the number of Democrats on the ballot as Republicans."
Nancy Pelosi, Bloodied but Unbowed from the Guardian [of the UK]
"Her poll ratings are abysmal, but being minority leader is about focus and discipline. Democrats still need Pelosi's power play"
Is the Tea Party Out to Banish Bush-style Conservatism? (E.J. Dionne) from the Washington Post
"…this embrace of a purely symbolic approach to deficit reduction is a sign that the Tea Party's central goals may lie elsewhere - in an effort to push the Republican Party away from those aspects of George W. Bush's legacy that tried to steer the conservative movement in a new direction. The real point may be to get the GOP to say goodbye to the idea of a compassionate conservatism and to Bush's peculiar but real brand of multiculturalism."
SCIENCE NUGGET!!
Gotcha!: Anti-hydrogen Atoms are Captured for the First Time from the Economist [of London]
"In the current issue of Nature, members of the ALPHA experiment report that they have been able to trap a very small amount of antihydrogen—the simplest type of anti-atom—for the first time. Since the hydrogen atom is one of the best-measured systems in all of science, this opens the door to a series of experiments testing just how similar matter and antimatter really are."
BOOK MOVIE NUGGET!!
Unfilmable Books: 15 Great Books Never Coming to a Theater Near You (PHOTOS) from Huffington Post
"Is it true that some books tell a story that no matter which way Hollywood cuts it, it just won't work as a movie? In an attempt to answer that question, we looked for the books that we thought Hollywood wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole."
BOOK NUGGET!!
Final Scenes From a Life of Bully Adventure: A Review of Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris (Janet Maslin) of the New York Times
"Edmund Morris’s biography of Theodore Roosevelt deserves to stand as the definitive study of its restless, mutable, ever-boyish, erudite and tirelessly energetic subject."
BOXING BOOK NUGGET!!
A Review of Joe Louis: Hard Times Man by Randy Roberts from the Chicago Tribune
"A look at the life and times of this American hero."
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