1. Can Palin Win? Ctd 18 minutes ago   permalink

Andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com

Mostly, she's giving every indication that if she formally enters the race, she intends to run as a factional candidate by mobilizing her personal loyalists.  That was a viable strategy in the 1970s, perhaps, at least on the Democratic side, but it's highly unlikely that a factional candidate can win now in a coalition-style ...

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2. Full text of April Glaspie's cable about Saddam meeting before Kuwait invasion 2 hours ago   permalink

Full text of April Glaspie's cable about Saddam meeting before Kuwait invasion
Www.americablog.com

A fascinating piece of history, courtesy of Wikileaks. The text of the cable that then- US ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, wrote to the State Department detailing her meeting with Saddam Hussein right before Iraq invaded Kuwait. Many observers at the time blamed Glaspie for not convincing Saddam that we meant business. Most interesting to me ...

3. Judith Miller slams Assange for not verifying sources 3 hours ago   permalink

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You can't even make this stuff up. Judith-freaking-Miller who helped the Bush administration usher in the Iraq invasion with piles of lies lecturing someone else about verifying sources. It's no wonder she works for Fox News but it's just as easy to see her anywhere in the mainstream media these days.

4. Apple iPhone alarm woes continue across the globe 16 minutes ago   permalink

Www.reuters.com

By Kelvin Soh and Tarmo Virki HONG KONG/HELSINKI (Reuters) - Some iPhone users in Asia and Europe complained of malfunctioning alarms on the first working day of 2011, even after Apple reassured users that its phones' built-in clocks will work from...

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5. Oil climbs above $92, anticipates economic growth 57 minutes ago   permalink

Oil climbs above $92, anticipates economic growth
News.yahoo.com

LONDON (Reuters) – Oil climbed above $92 on Monday to its highest since October 2008, spurred on by expectations economic recovery will boost energy demand and as market bulls set their sights on $100 a barrel.

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6. Xcellent Names for Drugz 2 hours ago   permalink

Freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com

Ever wondered why so many prescription drug names are loaded with x’s and z’s (Celebrex, Flomax, Zocor etc.)? “[U]se of these letters relates to the imperative to make a brand name highly visible in a crowd,” explains Rob Stepney in the British Medical Journal. “Reflecting their infrequent occurrence in English words,

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Xcellent Names for Drugz A dose by any other name would not sell as sweet   —  Inventors of drug names suddenly stood the alphabet on its head. Why did z and x become so attractive in the attempt to influence prescribers? asks Rob Stepney

7. Video: CBS Journolist Refuses to Call Michelle Bachmann “Congresswoman” 2 hours ago   permalink

Video: CBS Journolist Refuses to Call Michelle Bachmann “Congresswoman”
PoliPundit / PoliPundit.com

It’s “Congressman Weiner,” “Congresswoman Wasserman Schultz,” and “Michelle.” (via Breitbart.tv)

8. Monday Morning Open Thread 5 hours ago   permalink

Www.americablog.com

In two days, the new Congress will be sworn in. I don't think we have fully grasped just how painful this new House will be. One question is: which GOPer will emerge as the biggest whackjob? There are lots of contenders and the competition will be fierce. The ones who've been around for awhile, like Steve King, Louis Gohmert and Michelle Bachmann,

9. Timothy Garton Ash: In Brazil I glimpsed a possible future in which there is only one race 3 hours ago   permalink

Timothy Garton Ash: In Brazil I glimpsed a possible future in which there is only one race
Www.guardian.co.uk

This article appeared on p31 of the Main section section of the Guardian on Thursday 12 July 2007. It was published on guardian.co.uk at 00.11 BST on Thursday 12 July 2007. It was last modified at 00.11 GMT on Saturday 12 January 2008. It was first published at 00.01 BST on Thursday 12 July 2007.

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10. Hu's on First? Key US-China Summit Ahead 8 hours ago   permalink

Tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com

During the 2008 presidential election, Hillary Clinton took a very tough line on China -- arguing then that President George W. Bush should boycott the Beijing Olympics opening ceremonies because of China's policies on Tibet and Darfur. My response to then presidential candidate Clinton was that that kind of posture was not presidential -- as she ...

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Clinton Has Strategic Blind Spot On China   —  Clinton's plan may very well backfire and stoke the embers of virulent, strident nationalism rather than encourage China to keep moving toward to its goal as a responsible gloabl stakeholder.

11. Schwarzenegger commutes prison sentence of Fabian Nuñez's son 4 hours ago   permalink

Schwarzenegger commutes prison sentence of Fabian Nuñez's son
Latimesblogs.latimes.com

In his final night before leaving office, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger commuted the prison sentence of the son of former Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez who had pleaded guilty to taking part in the slaying of a college student.

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12. The Democrats’ Problem With White Voters 1 day ago   permalink

PoliPundit / PoliPundit.com

Election results in the South are presaging what is to come nationally: In the November election, Democrats got around 25 percent of the white vote in Georgia, about 10 percentage points shy of what they need to be competitive in statewide races if they get a large African-American turnout, Abramowitz said. [emphasis mine.] Unfortunately (for [...]