Citing specific examples from the linked article, spot the rhetorical spin. Extra credit: discuss the irony of use of the term “marketing” as deployed in this story. You have 30 minutes to complete your test. Good luck! (h/t Right Bias)

Bishop Harry Jackson, Jr. and Niger Innis: Skyrocketing energy prices and lost jobs also mean millions of otherwise healthy Americans are subjected to new health threats: higher air conditioning, heating, transportation and other energy bills. For those who cannot afford the increased costs, this can mean death from heat stroke and hypothermia; reduced budgets for healthy food, proper healthcare, home and car repairs, college, retirement, and charitable giving; and psychological

Here in the States, Thomas Friedman mused on the Chinese government’s idyllic governing arrangement with its subjects people — one in which the relative non-messiness of competing ideas and dissident expression allows the ChiComs to get things done. Cleanly. Efficiently. Progressively! And now, not to be outdone, we have Stephen Kinzer agitating in the Guardian for an end to “human rights imperialism” — which is essentially a kind of updated

Robert Romano, ALG: In a recent email to supporters, Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) proposed tying an upcoming vote to raise the $14.294 trillion national debt ceiling to a balanced budget amendment. Not a bad idea. After all, why tie an increase in the debt ceiling to a single year’s budget cuts, when it could be tied to a requirement that all budgets be balanced? The DeMint proposal would require future

Uh oh: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s nomination of Sohail Mohammed to be a state judge shows the governor’s tin ear for radical Islam. Not only did he appoint a longtime mouthpiece for radical Islamists to be a judge, but Christie has also turned a blind eye to the activities of one of Mohammed’s clients – radical imam Mohammed Qatanani, head of one of New Jersey’s largest mosques. Qatanani has

Pragmatism. A country of the people in which the people are largely flaccid vessels of PC pablum, will never be able to stay free. We are Eloi.

For those interested. My own take is this: we shouldn’t have elected this guy because he wasn’t equipped for the job — and everything about him told us that he would be a far-left ideologue, not the “pragmatist” he pretended to be. Anything else was simply piling on. (thanks to Alan) **** update: On the other hand… Dude. Pick an answer and stick with it. For the love of poi.

Really. It’s only a matter of time. May I suggest Mr Moore interview Newt, Jeb Bush, John McCain, and perhaps Bill Frist? As for the substance: well, Mike, to be honest, I’m less concerned that a black man will break into my house and rape my wife than I am that you’d break into my house and root around my fringe for braunschweiger and potted hams. So there’s that.

On ObamaCare accounting. Not that we needed him to. But maybe Bill Frist will see this, and it’ll temper that erection ObamaCare gives him. **** related.

…to cancel the big red carpet dinner for China’s President, and just order in some take-out? Otherwise, bitch slap