Al-Maliki's Announcement: A Big Deal (8)
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This could be one of those unexpected events that forever changes the way the world perceives an issue. Iraq's Prime Minister agrees with Obama, and there's no wiggle room or fudge factor. This puts John McCain in an extremely precarious spot: what's left to argue? to argue against Maliki would be to predicate that Iraqi sovereignty at this point means nothing. Obviously, our national interests aren't equivalent to Iraq's, but... Malik isn't listening to the ...
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Rick Klau said:
This strikes me as not a big deal, but as a HUGE deal. It's much, much harder to argue that we should stay there in our current set-up when the government that we instituted is saying unequivocally that we should get out. And it's much, much harder to argue that Obama's weak on national security when he's able to (from thousands of miles away) show that his consistently-held policy has now been endorsed by that same government. In other words, he was right, he had the foresight to see this coming, and had he been in charge we wouldn't be in this spot in the first place.
BBC Ponies up the Cash to Keep Tennant in the TARDIS (1)
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Via the Sun: Doctor Who bosses try to keep David Tennant with £1.5m dealBEEB bosses are more hopeful than ever that David Tennant WILL stay on as Doctor Who — after wooing him with a £1.5million deal.They had feared the Scot, 37, was sure to quit after filming four more specials of the BBC1 [...]
Dispatch from CBS: Talking with HIMYM co-creator Craig Thomas (1)
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At CBS' party last night, I talked to "How I Met Your Mother" co-creator Craig Thomas about what CBS president Nina Tassler said about Stella's potential status as The Mother and what else is coming up at the start of season four, and Craig even slipped me a very important exclusive about the new season.Nina said during her press conference that she doesn't think Stella is the mother. Your reaction?I am not prepared to say ...
Open Borders, Economics and the American Dream (1)
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Jason Riley of the Wall Street Journal argues America should have open borders. Riley argues that if we increase the means for foreign workers to come to America legally, we can then reorient Homeland Security resources toward real threats: drugs and terrorists, not people seeking the American Dream. This is a standard free-market solution to America's immigration morass. I wholeheartedly agree American businesses would be much better off if we expand the number of guest/temporary ...
Conservative Reformers (1)
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Yesterday in the NYT, David Brooks wrote about the importance of conservative reformers in political history, citing Teddy Roosevelt and Benjamin Disrael: Both reframed the political debate so that it was not change versus the status quo, it was unfamiliar change versus cautious, patriotic change designed to preserve the traditional virtues of the nation. A skeptical Kevin Drum responds: Those are odd choices, aren’t they? A Victorian era prime minister and a guy who accidentally ...
Cuellar gets the badge; Challenger unseats Sheriff Flores (1)
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State District Judge David Peeples ruled Thursday that Martin Cuellar won the runoff election against Sheriff Rick Flores.
New Trek Poster/First Images of New Cast (1)
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THE NATURE OF SCHOOL CHOICE, as explained at Atlantic Blog. (1)
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THE NATURE OF SCHOOL CHOICE, as explained at Atlantic Blog. Vouchers are too big a danger not only to the teachers unions (of which the Democratic Party is a wholly owned subsidiary), but to a bipartisan coalition of well off people. Whatever would happen to their property values if their schools ceased to be the exclusive property of their wealthy suburbs and became open to just anyone?A
Admit you like Starbucks Tom Smith (2)
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There's a Starbucks backlash goin' on and it's not fair. Yes, Starbucks are absurdly ubiquitous, they have overexpanded, and now they're going to pay the price. The creative destruction of the market is at work. But we should remember some key facts and be grateful. First, remember what coffee was like before Starbucks. Some of you (though I doubt it, with the readership of this blog) may have cut your teeth on micro-roasted craft coffee ...
Keeping Clickers in the Classroom :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs (3)
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Last day of Blackboard conference features educational bells and whistles galore. As for those handheld input devices: They might be more than just hype.
Why I'm sad Yglesias is moving to CAP (1)
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Ross Douthat captures my feelings perfectly about the very talented Matthew Yglesias moving to Center for American Progress: I respect his desire to be in the arena, TR-style, rather than on the sidelines, and there's no doubt a touch of concern-trolling involved whenever I fret about how the new progressive ecosystem seems hell-bent on imitating a lot of the things I find unpleasant about my own side of the partisan divide these days - the ...
"I did absolutely nothing, and it was everything I thought it could be." (1)
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Ruth Kelly on motorways (1)
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The Reg has an article on Ruth Kelly’s plans for motorways. I like the idea of toll lanes. I don’t like the idea of more M40-style speed management, mainly because it makes driving more tedious than traffic jams do. I’m really not sure how concerned I should be about electronic tagging of vehicles.
Release Time and Double Dipping (1)
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If you're a full-time faculty member, and you get a courseload reduction in exchange for taking on some extra non-classroom assignment – be it chairing a department, working on a self-study, or whatever – are you 'double dipping' if you then teach the released course anyway for extra pay?I've always thought not, but some folks around here are quite adamant that you are.The argument that it's double dipping rests on a literal reading of 'course ...
Breakthrough at Appalachian State (1)
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The "Unitary Executive" and the Scope of Executive Power: (1)
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As co-blogger Jonathan Adler points out, Libertarian Party presidential candidate Bob Barr is one of many people who confuse the theory of the "unitary executive" with the claim that the...
New York City Declares Neighborhood "Blighted" so that Property Coveted by Columbia University Can be Condemned: (3)
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The New York Times reports that Columbia University has succeeded in its efforts to get New York City to declare a portion of Manhattanville "blighted" so that the area can...
Wind power | Turbine time (1)
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T. Boone Pickens takes to the skies
