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January 27, 2008

Resolved: There Will Always Be an England [Dan Collins]

Meh.  I hope so, but . . . I dunno.

Blown Coverage [Dan Collins]

Brewster-Jennings, Valerie Plame’s cover company for investigation of foreign attempts to acquire US nuclear secrets, was compromised by a State Department employee who tipped off his Pakistani contacts, according to allegations made by a Turkish language instructor with the FBI.    That would be two years before Valerie Wilson Plame was outed.  Ms Plame declined to comment, stating that she’s unable to comment on any of her CIA activities.  Unless it’s

I Double Dare [Dan Collins]

the Iron My Shirt guys to go to an Obama rally and holler, “Pick my cotton!” “Fetch mah julep!” A tordid affair. Tordid? That’s torrid AND sordid. With all the Heath Ledger coverage, I missed that Suzanne Pleshette died.

Walt Disney’s [Dan Collins]

That F#&%ing Cat!  On a very different note, great post over at Christopher Taylor’s blog (check out the following one, as well).

Is That a Big Tent [Dan Collins]

you’ve got there, or are you just happy to see me? Proving yet again that the Right continues to not fire on all cylinders, Right bloggers Protein Wisdom’s Dan Collins and Darleen’s Place seem to miss the tongue in cheek nature of my “rules” and the actual point of my post“The Media and The 2008 Election: The Perfect Storm of Clinton Hate.  Darleen accuses me of: jaw-dropping self-parody (really too giggle inducing to be labeled nascent

Futurist Schlock [Dan Collins]

NYT gives some fellow named . . . Piranha, I think, 8 pages in which to lecture the United States regarding its hegemony and how it must surrender power.  Full of bluster and synergy, inevitable as plate tectonics, and more revelatory of the NYT’s worldview than anything that might come to pass in actual history, I prophesy (or profess, sighing) that it will take its place in the dusty annals of

Dems 2008: How Obama’s new theme affects the general election [Karl]

Sen. Barack Obama’s victory speech in South Carolina contained a twist on his core theme of “change”: But there are real differences between the candidates. We are looking for more than just a change of party in the White House. We’re looking to fundamentally change the status quo in Washington – a status quo that extends beyond any particular party. And right now, that status quo is fighting back with

FISA-noia strikes deep… but selectively [Karl]

At FireDogLake, we learn that Christy Hardin Smith has read an article from CQ reporting that US intelligence allegedly tapped the telephone calls of author Lawrence Wright in 2002, and now fears that her phones may still be tapped because her family hosted a teenage German foreign exchange student a few years ago. The CQ article in turn refers to an article in the Jan. 21 edition of The New Yorker, which is not

Clever Psychologist Calls Davos Elite Childish [Dan Collins]

in such a way that they don’t notice: Ellen Langer had a message for the world’s elite in Davos: get “mindful”, and you will be more successful in your job, live longer, be more attractive and even get on better with your dog.”Almost all of us is mindless, and oblivious to it,” Langer, a Harvard social psychology professor, told AFP at the World Economic Forum, an annual gathering of the

Dems 2008: South Carolina & Super-Duper Tuesday, pt. 2 [Karl]

In addition to this morning’s insty-analysis, some additional notes.  First, the pollsters were off more in South Carolina than they were in New Hampshire — but they picked the correct winner, so we will probably not be subjected to faulty analysis of the polling by Andrew Kohut. Second, OpenLeft’s Chris Bowers handicaps Super-Duper Tuesday for the Dems: So, the question is, how close does Obama have to be after Super Tuesday