Usually the Venerable Krug’s contributions are behind the paywall at the NYT, but the following was posted at the Economists’ View website. Why, you might ask, would anyone pay to read something written by the Krugs?  Well, there’s this special class of contrarian investors who read what the Krugs writes and determine their investment strategies 180 degrees from that, and, from what I understand, do quite well. Two More Years,

From Podhoretz at NRO’s The Corner: Kenneth Stein, a professor of history at Emory University, has been associated with Jimmy Carter’s Carter Center from its founding. He was its first executive director, and its first academic fellow. He has just terminated his association with the Center because of Carter’s shameful new book, Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid. The guys at Powerline have the whole story, but here’s the money quote from

You probably have all heard about the Christmas in Darfur project that I’m involved with.  In the course of preparation, we’ve been following the news and doing some research, which I figured I should share with folks.

From the Las Vegas Sun comes the news that many of us have been predicting: 

France goes head-to-head with CNN and the BBC from Wednesday with the launch of its state-funded 24/7 news channel, part of President Jacques Chirac’s efforts to make his country’s voice heard. France 24 will broadcast two channels, one in French and the other mostly in English. “Our mission is to cover worldwide news with French eyes,” CEO Alain de Pouzilhac told AP Television News. He said the channel will emphasize

Council agrees to renovate Auschwitz Okay, I know that they’re trying to preserve it as a monument, but isnt’ there a better word than “renovate”?  It makes my flesh creep.

Well, this is just great.  Robert Gates, the bumbling idiot in the White House’s choice to be the next Secretary of Defense, has just testified at his confirmation hearing that we’re losing the war in Iraq.  Good grief.  If you thought they were laughing at us in Teheran before, they must be doubled over now.  I’m sure our boys in the Sandbox will take heart and fight even harder now

As SI points out below, many on the transnationalist left (and in the US Congress, for that matter) are all atwitter these days:  the world, for them, is returning to normal—with the benching of John Bolton (not because he’s been ineffective, mind you, but rather because he radiates musk and kielbasa sandwiches rather than eau fraiche and anything pan-seared and drizzled with a cranberry chutney), the UN re-emerges unhindered as

OK, so you’ve been living with her for a while, and you went and knocked her up. She decides that you’re an idiot, and that she’d rather rip out her eyeballs and boil them in oil than raise a kid with you. Being the modern, liberated woman that she is, she decides that the logical choice is to kill that pesky little shit you planted in her before it has

Let’s talk about laundering information . . . The greedy truth about media consultants Think you know where your campaign dollars go? Think again, sucker. Political image-makers skim off percentages that would make Exxon execs envious—and the public never knows about it.