Nation
Who is doing the governing?: AT (Bonelli)Conservative prospects on the ascendancy: Power Line
Transparency! No, you can't read the legislation!: Times
Liberals to fight for public option in health plan: Times
Ghouls Preparing To Dance on Sparkman's Grave: LegalIns
Obama says 'no' to pensions for WW II Alaska guards: McClatchy
Why are charter schools up while public schools are down?: GRW
DC takes one in the nads: McMahon
Economy
Health Care Promises: What Happens Next?: AT (Spencer)Proof: Big Government Kills Economic Performance: Cato
Stimulating our way to Depression: AT (Nace)
The media and government are lying about the economy: Denninger
Media
Rules for Counter-Radicals: LopezNYT introduces its "opinion media monitor" :Malkin
Right-Of-Center Bloggers Select Their Least Favorite People On The Right: RWN
'Southern Populist Terrorism': RSM
Times assigns editor to watch Fox News: Surber
Local Mayor Arrested on Corruption Charges, Detroit News plays Name That Party: BlogProf
Too Biased Even To Describe The Bias: JOM
Obama Pushed Sunday Talk Show Ratings Down: Surber
IRS drops ACORN: HTWW
Great Moments In Cognitive Dissonance: Driscoll
World
Lie Down With Dogs: GormogonsObama leads international effort to divide Jerusalem: GWP
Photo o' the Day: Obamao: Aces
The Past is Not Quite Past: Hanson
Come again? In nuclear conflict with Iran, Obama 'not interested in victory': GWP
Sarkozy mocks Obama: Surber
The Amazing Obama Inaction Figure: Sanity
SciTech
AT&T Goes After Google Voice, Net Neutrality And Double Standards (Full Letter To FCC): TechCrunchEgyptian Media: Coins from Era of Biblical Joseph Found in Egypt: MEMRI
Cornucopia
Head in a bed: Viral FootageThe Verbal Exchange Didn't Go Well: JWF
I suppose it’s possible that opposition to the federal government’s annexation of one-sixth of the U.S. economy is being driven by nostalgia for segregated lunch counters. And no doubt, if you write for the New York Times or teach race and gender studies at American colleges for long enough, it seems entirely reasonable, listening to a patient profess satisfaction with her present health insurance arrangements, to respond, “You know, if you re-sewed the back of that hospital gown so your ass wasn’t showing, your Klan sheet would be as good as new.”
Thus, Melissa Harris-Lacewell, professor of African-American studies at Princeton, was invited on to National Public Radio to expound on the use of “racial code words” in “the current opposition to health care reform.” For example, explained professor Harris-Lacewell, “language of personal responsibility is often a code language used against poor and minority communities.”
-- Mark Steyn
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