1. WONDERING WHY REUTERS WITHDREW ITS “BACKDOOR TAXES” STORY. 24 minutes ago   permalink

WONDERING WHY REUTERS WITHDREW ITS “BACKDOOR TAXES” STORY.
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"Glenn also has a rather dry sense of humour, which I'm guessing not enough people pick up on." -- Andrea See

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JIM GERAGHTY: An Incorrigible Way Of Counting Unemployment.   —  "Glenn also has a rather dry sense of humour, which I'm guessing not enough people pick up on." -- Andrea See

2. TT: Almanac 3 hours ago   permalink

About Last Night

"I think that every novelist ought to entertain before he does anything else. And that's very difficult. It's much easier...

3. I'm Off . . . 10 hours ago   permalink

Corner.nationalreview.com

To lunch with Instapundit (oh the schemes we will hatch!). Meanwhile, I won't be online for a while. But if you were following me on Twitter, oh the things you would learn. I'm 805 followers from 6,000, at which point Thorn Industries will take over the Internet.

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4. What the Manolo is… 4 hours ago   permalink

Manolo the Shoeblogger / Manolo

Manolo says, one of the Manolo’s internet friends has the request of the Manolo. Dear Manolo, I am the Mary (well, not The Mary, but the Mary around here). I agree with you about Crocs, and you have done the Lord’s work there, and I appreciate your references to your affiliated blogs. I am a big fan of the Manolo. What I miss are the ...

5. The Big Push Back 5 hours ago   permalink

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo

The Obama administration and the FBI are making a big push tonight to rebut criticism of trying Abdulmutallab in American courts rather than submitting him to torture and a military tribunal by revealing that he has been cooperating with investigators for days. The claim, which is not that surprising, is that it has been precisely the use of ...

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The Big Push Back Official Says Terrorism Suspect Is Cooperating   —  WASHINGTON — Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a jetliner bound for Detroit on Dec. 25, started talking to investigators after two of his family members arrived in the United States and helped earn his cooperation, a senior administration official said Tuesday evening.

6. Stick A Fork In Cap-and-Trade 11 hours ago   permalink

David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo

At a town hall style event in New Hampshire a short time ago, President Obama acknowledged that cap and trade might have to be cleaved from the energy bill in the Senate and passed separately, which is to say, not passed at all.

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7. Merlot 5 hours ago   permalink

Merlot
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8. ‘My Name Is Dick Swett,’ Person Says To President 6 hours ago   permalink

‘My Name Is Dick Swett,’ Person Says To President
Jim Newell / Wonkette

There once was a Congressman named “Dick Swett.” Barack Obama called on him at that New Hampshire town hall today. When will this president put aside his childish impulses to summon “Dick Swett”? And when will “Dick Swett” realize that going by “Richard” would make his existence less comical? ...

9. Amazon's Big Mistake: Forgetting They're a Utility 8 hours ago   permalink

Amazon's Big Mistake: Forgetting They're a Utility
Virginia / Dynamist Blog

As John Scalzi has scathingly noted, Amazon really screwed up when they pulled all of Macmillan's titles from their site. Although I think they have the right idea about book prices, they betrayed their customers' expectations and, worse, did so...

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The Amazon, Apple, Macmillan Kerfuffle   —  I have been trying to follow the story of the dustup among Amazon, Apple, and Macmillan on pricing on e-book readers, but have been distracted by other things.  What interests me are the business models being pursued by the various parties here — and whose makes sense, whose doesn’t, and who is likely to survive [...]

10. Bloggers: Scaled-back health legislation is likely. Split on effects of Citizens United. 9 hours ago   permalink

David Kopel / The Volokh Conspiracy

Last week’s National Journal poll of political bloggers asked “What’s the most likely outcome this year of President Obama’s health care reform initiative?” The plurality choice on the Left, and the majority choice on the Right, was “Scaled-back legislation will be enacted.” I agreed: “Remember, even after the defeat of Hillarycare,

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Health Care Reform Expected -- In Some Form   —  Bloggers Discuss Fate Of Legislation This Year. Plus: Who Benefits Most From The Supreme Court's Citizens United Ruling?

11. Jeffrey, Marci Beagley found guilty in Oregon City faith-healing trial 8 hours ago   permalink

Jeffrey, Marci Beagley found guilty in Oregon City faith-healing trial
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Sentencing: Scheduled for Feb. 18. Criminally negligent homicide is a Class B felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Normal sentencing range for defendants with no criminal history is 16 to 18 months.

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12. Beyond the Underground 8 hours ago   permalink

Beyond the Underground
Evan Schaeffer / Beyond the Underground

NOTES ON OUR TRIP TO USHUAIA, ARGENTINA . . . We recently returned to Buenos Aires from Ushuaia, Argentina, the southernmost city in the world. Here are some quick notes on our trip, with recommendations for other Ushuaia travelers. The...

13. Snap Out of It! 9 hours ago   permalink

David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo

One of the sadder spectacles to watch since Scott Brown's win in Massachusetts has been House progressives suggesting that now is their chance to ram a public option through the Senate. Nancy Pelosi tried to give a reality check on that point today.

14. Yep, That's Not a Good Sign 9 hours ago   permalink

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo

Jenny Sanford, soon-to-be-ex-wife of disgraced Gov. Mark Sanford, says that when the two were married Mark insisted on excising the promise of fidelity from their wedding vows.

15. Roscoe Pound on the Second Amendment 9 hours ago   permalink

David Kopel / The Volokh Conspiracy

“In the urban industrial society of today a general right to bear efficient arms so as to be enabled to resist oppression by the government would mean that gangs could exercise an extra-legal rule which would defeat the whole Bill of Rights.” Roscoe Pound, The Development of Constitutional Guarantees of Liberty 91 (1957). Although Pound ...

16. Environmental Literacy Included in Obama's New Education Budget: Historic First 10 hours ago   permalink

Environmental Literacy Included in Obama's New Education Budget: Historic First
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Together with their legislative sponsors, the No Child Left Inside Coalition today cheered President Obama's budget as a historic moment, noting that environmental literacy has been included in the U.S. Department of Education budget for the very first time.

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Environmental Literacy Included in Obama's New Education Budget: Historic First Obama Parts Company With Reality   —  Today the Obama administration unveiled its budget for FY 2011. The budget ostensibly covers the next ten years, but its projections for future years are meaningless. The only year for which it has any significance is 2011, in which it anticipates $3.8 trillion in spending and an astonishing $1.6 trillion deficit. In 2006, the last year in which ...

17. The SEC and .... porn? 10 hours ago   permalink

Miriam Baer / Conglomerate

According to the WSJ Blog (which quotes the Washington Times), the SEC may have had some oversight problems of its own.  Apparently, some employees found ways to get around the SEC's computer filters and view pornography sites - a lot.    I can't say I am extremely surprised.  An entire cottage industry of consultants exists to help ...

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The SEC and .... porn? The SEC’s Latest Crackdown: On Its Own Workers’ Porn-Watching Habits   —  We’re usually not up late enough to watch Jay or Dave, Conan or Jimmy or Craig. But we know the genre well enough to know monologue-fodder when we see it.

18. Cranky McCain Chastises Mullen And Gates For Expressing Opinion On DADT Before Consulting Him 9 hours ago   permalink

Wonkroom.thinkprogress.org

During today’s Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on repealing the military’s ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) criticized Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen for supporting the repeal of DADT without first conducting an exhaustive review of the ...

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19. The Block Island Cemetery 10 hours ago   permalink

The Block Island Cemetery
Sheila / The Sheila Variations

I love cemeteries, and I love old cemeteries in particular. The one on Block Island is very special. It's on a hillside facing the sea, and it is completely representative of the community that has been out there for centuries....

20. Lancet Retracts Vaccine-Autism Study 12 hours ago   permalink

Jonathan H. Adler / The Volokh Conspiracy

The Lancet, one of the premier medical journals, has retracted the controversial study purporting to link the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine to autism in children.  The journal issued this statement: It has become clear that several elements of the 1998 paper by Wakefield et al. are incorrect, contrary to the findings of an earlier [...]

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Lancet Retracts Vaccine-Autism Study Medical journal retracts autism study   —  (CNN) -- The medical journal The Lancet on Tuesday retracted a controversial 1998 paper that linked the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine to autism.