“N. Korea has 2 nuclear warheads for Rodong missiles, group says”. From Kyodo News, via Rantburg: The U.S. and South Korean intelligence organizations have obtained information North Korea has two nuclear warheads that could be mounted on mid-range Rodong missiles, a senior analyst at an international nongovernmental group said Tuesday. Daniel Pinkston, a senior analyst at the International Crisis Group, told Kyodo News he got the information from a government

…for our little experiment in freedom, now so clearly moribund. I feel like digging up Saul Alinsky and dumping his corpse on the doorstep of Mr Berg’s finely appointed townhouse. So he can really see the rot for himself. Of course, what would make it perfect would be to leave moldering carcass on a day when Mr Berg just happened to be having Mr Lakoff over for cocktail weenies and

WSJ: GM’s CEO Rick Wagoner got the Presidential boot over the weekend, and GM was given two months to reorganize, or get forced into a “quick and surgical” bankruptcy. For once, we agree with Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, who called Mr. Wagoner “a sacrificial lamb.” The Administration needed someone to take the fall to sate the anticorporate furies it has helped to unleash. Mr. Wagoner wasn’t solely responsible for GM’s

Me? Like a freakin’ Clydesdale, baby… related.

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Question: What do you call a person who believes that government, and not the market, should control an economy? Or one who believes that it is the role of the government to step in and buy up effective control of troubled private corporations — corporations troubled in many ways because of prior government interventions — with (future) taxpayer money? And — and this is the really important part — is

Why all the formality? I say we just put all the corporate fat cats into a Colloseum, have them fight armed members of the treasury department, and then let our new Emperor give a thumbs up or thumbs down to decide the fate of the survivors. At least then we could like, place bets and shit.

So suggests Chris Seiple, writing in the CSM: In the course of my travels — from the Middle East to Central Asia to Southeast Asia — it has been my great privilege to meet and become friends with many devout Muslims. These friendships are defined by frank respect as we listen to each other; understand and agree on the what, why, and how of our disagreements, political and theological; and,

…one bit of “smart diplomacy” at a time… **** (more here and here.) *** update: Biden jumps in to help out! (thanks to Abe)

Do with it as you please.