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How did Murkowski win? Go figure Channel Your Inner
Barbie With the WHIT
David Morgan (Front Row interview with NBC’s Today “That’s what the American people
Washington) show. want. That’s what the people of Spring 2011 Collection
Submitted at 11/18/2010 9:41:58 AM “What they said was: ‘We want Alaska have asked for: ‘Get to (GALLERY)
the consensus-building that I work, whether you’re working
Nov 18, 2010 10:41 EST bring to the table. We don’t want with the president, whether you’re (TREND HUNTER - The Latest
Lisa Murkowski is the first to Trends)
governance based on anger or working with the majority leader
win a write-in campaign for the fear. We want governance that or the speaker — figure it out, Submitted at 11/18/2010 10:37:02 AM
U.S. Senate in more than half a comes about when people reach Congress.’”
century. But that’s not the across the table.” So, yeah, go figure. Channel your inner Barbie with
important part. Her Palin-backed Tea Party Photo Credits: Reuters/Larry the WHIT Spring 2011 collection.
The Alaska Republican is also a opponent, Joe Miller, has not yet Downing (Murkowski); Reuters/ Perfect for a California getaway,
moderate who sounds determined conceded the race. But Alaska Scott Audette (Palin); Reuters/ it'll make you feel like winter was
to defy the hardline GOP ‘defeat election authorities are widely Jason Reed (McConnell, Obama simply a bad dream after you don
Obama’ drumbeat in Congress expected to certify Murkowski’s But Murkowski, who succeeded and Boehner) one or two of these sun-shiny
and the uncompromising politics win later this month. after Miller knocked her out in This entry passed through the outfits.…
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not about partisan agendas or William Deresiewicz (The New
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the Tea Party – and her home- the Senate. Some GOP officials election days yet to come. content-only/faq.php
state nemesis Sarah Palin – want see that as a repudiation of “We have too much to do for Five Filters featured article: Submitted at 12/1/2010 11:00:00 PM
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on who’s going to be president or Nemesis
“This was not a Republican endorsement of their own fiscal Reporting of Falluja's Cancer
who’s going to be leading the By Philip Roth
campaign. This was Democrats conservatism. Catastrophe.
Senate in 2012. We have got an (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 280
and Republicans and Little wonder that the 2012
obligation to the people of this pp., $26)
independents all coming presidential race is quickly
country to govern,” she says. I.
together,” Murkowski says in an becoming front and center.
Exclusive Q&A: How the White iPhone 4 Kid Got Rich Buying
Genuine Apple Parts Via Spam
Austin Carr (Fast Company)
Submitted at 11/18/2010 11:23:46 AM
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someone in China? private investigator? Apple? guess that would knock out the to say.
For sure. It was that simple. Hopefully not. counterfeit or trademark issue. I understand you have plans for a Analyst Calls: ABT,
Seems somewhat dangerous. Are you worried about trademark So because another website sells startup? ALU, CSCO, EL, F,
Weren’t you worried it might be a infringement? similar products, it makes it legal? It's going to be a Web app. I’m KKR, QCOM, RIMM,
scam? That I'm selling trademarked I know I sound like a brat with trying to stay stealthy with the
Dangerous, sure. But no problem goods? If I sold an iPhone 4, does that, but not my intention. details, but it will be a super- SAP, STP, TIVO ...
so far. that count the same? No, not at all. I realize that you simplistic way to connect with Eric Buscemi (BloggingStocks)
So you contacted him by email Or counterfeit goods. are in a unique situation, where people online. It will have Submitted at 11/18/2010 11:20:00 AM
and phone. The plan was to buy Like I mentioned in The you made a successful business, elements of a social network.
these parts from him and have Observer article, I don't know the but are unsure of the legal How far do you see Filed under: Analyst Reports,
him ship them to you? law. I've had a few lawyers email ramifications. WhiteiPhone4Now.com going? Analyst Upgrades and
Until some point, yes. me saying what I'm doing is For sure. At this pace, your profits are sure Downgrades, Cisco Systems
Where did you think he was completely legal. Is WhiteiPhone4Now.com your to increase. Do you become more (CSCO), Ford Motor (F), Estee
getting the parts from? It just seems that the parts are first company? nervous about potential legal Lauder (EL), Abbott Laboratories
I guess the same way everyone exact duplicates of Apple I don't consider it a company. consequences, the more the site (ABT), Research in Motion
else gets them. products, imported from China, But you're making tens of makes money? What if you made (RIMM), Alcatel-LucentADS
You’ve since been contacted by a and indeed at times, from the thousands of dollars. $1 million? (ALU), QUALCOMM Inc
private investigator. Are you same factory as Apple's parts. The Not a legal company, as in not I doubt I’d make a million, but I (QCOM), Analyst Initiations
concerned? parts have Apple's logo and incorporated. will know [how far this is going] Analyst Upgrades
Nothing is stolen. That's why I Apple's trademark. Are you Your first business? in the coming days, as I get real • Qualcomm ( QCOM) was
was confused when the PI said I certain this is entirely legal? Could be. legal advice. Until Apple releases upgraded to outperform from
was selling stolen parts. How Here’s a site that sells them: I’d like to ask a question. It the white iPhone 4 or if I find out neutral at Credit Suisse.
would he know who my suppliers directfix.com. seems you’re being very careful what I’m doing is illegal. • JPMorgan upgraded Allegheny
are? Why didn’t he question the Are they selling white iPhone 4 with your wording: that this is not Earlier: Teen Selling White Tech ( ATI) to overweight from
other sellers? parts with the same logo? a company, or a business; that iPhone 4 Parts Talks Apple, Big neutral.
Are you concerned you might’ve Don't know about the quality, but your supplier said the parts were Earnings, Foxconn Supplier, • NetApp ( NTAP) was upgraded
been buying stolen goods? all these parts have the logo. not stolen goods; that you don’t Legal Fears to buy from hold at Canaccord.
My supplier explained that they Iresq.com is an authorized Apple know the law; that other sites sell • Estee Lauder ( EL) was
are not stolen. If they were, he repair center, and they sell the similar goods. Is there a reason upgraded to perform from
would have booked it when I same parts. for this? underperform at Oppenheimer.
brought it up, and taken my Are you an authorized Apple Not really--that's just the truth. I • Citigroup upgraded Suntech (
money. repair center? didn't realize I was being careful. STP) to hold from sell.
Who do you think hired the No, but what I'm saying is that I I've not gotten any advice on what
Continue reading Analyst Calls:
Testing Two iPhone Scanning Apps ABT, ALU, CSCO, EL, F, KKR,
QCOM, RIMM, SAP, STP, TIVO
John Biggs (TechCrunch) frequently, storing images of text (purported) OCR and translation ...
for later perusal. What I would system while Scanner Pro is a Analyst Calls: ABT, ALU,
Submitted at 11/18/2010 10:15:13 AM
love, though, is a real OCR app. fully-formed (but not OCR- CSCO, EL, F, KKR, QCOM,
In the course of researching a I’ve tried a few of the simpler capable) page scanning solution. RIMM, SAP, STP, TIVO ...
book, I’ve been using my iPhone OCR apps available on the iTunes Read more… o r i g i n a lly appeared on
as sort of a “record keeping” store but I was recently BloggingStocks on Thu, 18 Nov
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Eva Longoria files for divorce from Ask TUAW: iPad books,
Tony Parker (AP) Android iTunes sync, printing
(Yahoo! News: Most Viewed) France on July 6, 2007. The next
day, a priest married them in a
Longoria's spokeswoman, Liza
Anderson, said the actress had no
without applications and more
Submitted at 11/18/2010 5:09:24 AM Chris Ullrich (TUAW) don't specify). If you're asking an
church across from the Louvre further comment.
Submitted at 11/18/2010 9:30:00 AM iPhone, iPod touch or iPad
LOS ANGELES – Less than four M u s e u m , f o l l o w e d b y a n Longoria, 35, did not indicate in
question, be sure to note which
years after a storybook wedding exclusive bash at a storied French the court filings when the couple After some time off, we're back model and version of iOS you
in Paris, Eva Longoria filed court chateau. broke up. with an all-new edition of your have.
papers Wednesday to divorce As a member of the Spurs, Parker Parker, 28, signed a multiyear favorite Q & A column: Ask To kick things off this week
basketball star Tony Parker, citing h a s w o n t h r e e N B A extension with the Spurs two TUAW. As before, I will do my we've got a new batch of
irreconcilable differences. championships in recent years. weeks ago. At the time, the best to answer your Mac and questions about how to get books
Parker, a three-time NBA All- Longoria often had a courtside French point guard insisted that iDevice-related questions with as on your iPad, syncing music to an
Star with the San Antonio Spurs, seat at his games. he and Longoria wanted to remain much candor and accuracy as I Android phone, changing the
made no hint as to what caused Each posted a statement on their in San Antonio. can muster. location of your iTunes library,
the split between him and the star Twitter accounts addressing the "I've gotten great support from my In case you've forgotten, here's printing without opening
of TV's "Desperate Housewives" divorce. "We love each other teammates and my coaches," how things work: each week this applications, and more.
during a brief meeting with a deeply and pray for each other's Parker said. "And I'll focus 100 column will appear with questions Continue reading Ask TUAW:
throng of reporters outside his happiness," it said. percent on the Spurs and try to and answers. If you have iPad books, Android iTunes sync,
team's locker room about an hour They have no children together. win basketball games." questions for the following week's printing without applications and
before a game. Longoria has one previous ___ column, drop them in the more
"It's a difficult time right now for m a r r i a g e . Associated Press Writer Paul J. comments, and I will do my best Ask TUAW: iPad books,
me and Eva," Parker said. "We In her legal filing, she requested Weber in San Antonio contributed to get to them. I won't be able to Android iTunes sync, printing
g o t a j o i n t s t a t e m e n t a n d that her name be restored to Eva to this report. answer them all every time, so without applications and more
everything else is our private life." Jacqueline Longoria. She had This entry passed through the please, be patient. originally appeared on TUAW on
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and unbalanced debt owed to its past, but that is not the case now. US economy. *We welcome comments that
workers/retirees. NOW – GM is But hey, continue to make Nov 17, 2010 9:07pm EST advance the story directly or with
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Nokia C7 Review
Chris Davies (SlashGear)
Submitted at 11/18/2010 10:25:37 AM
woefully-underpublicized external storage or peripherals. As QWERTY keyboard, only T9/ Nokia’s 12-megapixel camera on when compared to other
pentaband WCDMA radio (850/ we found with the N8, however, multitap, and you actually enter the N8 has been rightly lauded, smartphones. We easily managed
900/1700/1900/2100) capable of the effectiveness depends on what text into a different, separate text and happily the C7s 8-megapixel two days of solid use, with push-
3G speeds on European, T-Mobile power requirements the external box that pops up when you tap. unit is another strong performer. email turned on and a mixture of
USA and AT&T networks. drive has; too hungry, and the C7 Both are due to be changed, but The lack of true autofocus means calls, browsing and photography.
There’s also quadband GSM/ can’t supply enough juice. until then text input can be shots are quick to take, snapping Considering most smartphones
EDGE, Bluetooth 3.0, WiFi b/g/n Unfortunately there’s no HDMI frustrating. as soon as you hit the dedicated demand a nightly recharge (or
and both an FM radio and FM output. Software Nokia’s browser is also due an camera key, and while there’s no more), that’s impressive stuff. The
transmitter. GPS, A-GPS and Symbian^3 is likely to be the update in 2011, with greater speed Xenon flash, you can at least use average user could probably
Nokia’s proprietary – and speedy stumbling block for most people, and stability promised (which will the bright dual-LEDs for a video squeeze out a third day, too, with
– WiFi network positioning with a reputation that’s proving also have an impact on third-party light during 720p HD recording. little compromise.
system are also present. Any other difficult for Nokia to shed as it apps that use the same underlying Stills are impressive, with plenty Wrap-Up
company would be screaming attempts to promote the engine). Until then, the default C7 of detail and minimal noise, The Nokia C7 suffers from the
features like these from the platform’s relevance. We’ve browser is a passable affair, together with rich, well-balanced same problems as the N8: the
rooftops, and yet Nokia seems covered it comprehensively in our supporting multitouch gestures colors that look great on the C7s hardware is some of the best
reluctant to talk about the C7s Nokia N8 review, and the build and Flash playback, but proving AMOLED display and on bigger around, especially when it comes
hardware prowess. on the C7 is identical. That means sluggish at times when trying to screens. Unfortunately sharing to connectivity, but the software is
On the back is an 8-megapixel you get three homescreen panes handle the latter. It works, but it them is made a little trickier than a tougher sell. Symbian has many
camera (“full focus” rather than which can be filled with up to six lacks the slick swiftness of, say, on rival devices; you can email strengths – and many users – and
autofocus) with a dual-LED flash widget-bars each, together with the iPhone 4. Of course, there are them, but there’s no native Nokia’s plans for cross-platform
and flanked by stereo speakers, rudimentary social networking third-party options available Twitter or Facebook uploading. compatibility with Qt should
while a second, VGA camera integration. The latter falls short through Nokia’s Ovi Store that Video, meanwhile, is similarly mean the OS isn’t left behind
faces forward for 3G video calls. of what, say, HTC has achieved provide an alternative, and it’s strong (and, again, we wish there when MeeGo devices begin to
On the top edge there’s a with Sense on Android devices, worth digging out Opera Mobile was a way to upload it from the take the smartphone top spots, but
microUSB port (under a flap) for basically amounting to Twitter 10 and Opera Mini; you lose C7 to YouTube or other sharing the Finns are less successful at
charging or synchronizing, and Facebook updates pulled Flash support, but gain a portrait sites). Colors are rich and there’s convincing people that the
together with a 3.5mm headphone down and your own status QWERTY keyboard and plenty of detail, though fast pans platform is more than UI deep.
jack and power button. On the changes supported. windowed browsing. – like with most cameraphones – 2011s interface and browser
right side there are volume You do get threaded SMS Ovi Maps may require some UI could lead to jags or blur. Still, changes should go some way to
buttons flanking a shortcut key, conversations, and there’s support acclimatisation to those used to you’re getting a fair chunk of the addressing that, but until then
together with a camera shortcut, for a single Exchange account and Google Maps, but after that it’s a N8s overall image abilities in a Symbian^3 simply lacks the out-
while on the left is a 2.5mm multiple POP/IMAP accounts, all solid GPS app with some useful more pocketable device. of-the-box user friendliness of
Nokia charging port. The of which worked as you’d expect. third-party extras. Unlike Google, Nokia C7 720p HD video Android, webOS and iOS.
microphone is on the underside. Multi-tasking is also convenient, full offline navigation is sample: Priced at £359 or free on a £20
Curiously, while the SIM card slot with a long-press of the single supported (you can download Phone & Battery per month agreement in the UK
is accessible under the battery menu key pulling up a graphical select maps to the C7s memory, Nokia has a reputation for solid (the C7 is yet to show up at Nokia
cover, without removing the switcher from which you can also and then turn off the data phone performance, and the C7 is USA’s online store) the C7
battery itself, the same can’t be end programs; we still prefer this connection), and unlike HTC’s no different. There are dedicated undercuts the N8 by £70 (or £120
said for the microSD card slot to iOS and Android’s icon-based latest Sense offline mapping you call keys on the front panel, both over the course of a two-year
(that augments 8GB of internal task-switcher. Nokia has promised don’t have to pay for the with pleasantly solid tactile subsidy). For your money you’re
storage). an update to Symbian’s on-screen navigation functionality. We’d feedback to let you know you’ve getting strong camera
Nokia doesn’t include the adapter keyboards in early 2011, and to be like to have seen a car kit in the hit them, and earpiece clarity is performance and excellent “core”
in the box (unlike with the N8), honest they can’t come soon box to make the most of that, but high. The speakerphone is also abilities – phone, battery and
but the C7 will work with their enough. Swype is preloaded, but unfortunately it’s an optional loud and clear. NOKIA page 20
USB Host dongle to hook up there’s no portrait-orientation accessory. Camera Battery life, too, is impressive
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Top Trends of 2010: Content Farms continued from page 19
firmly established inside the top Google's power to devalue content generated content production business Weblogs, Inc. to AOL in
Filed under: MLB Awards, MLB
20 Web properties in the U.S. as farm articles may prove to be platform that "seeds" content 2005) and Answers.com are three
Video On Tuesday, Steve Phillips
measured by comScore. This year, Demand Media's biggest obstacle among AOL's 80+ properties. examples.
said he thought Ron Washington
Demand Media filed for IPO and to IPO glory in 2011. Video Content Farms Lesser known names have and Dusty Baker deserved their
two big Internet portals - AOL Portals Move In: Yahoo! and It's not just textual content being ramped up this year too, such as
league's Manager of the Year
and Yahoo! - joined the trend. AOL produced by content farms. Video Suite101- which we profiled in
Awards, but on Wednesday the
Let's take a look back on the year One of the biggest acquisitions of may be the next frontier. A July- and the wiki-based service
winners were Ron Gardenhire and
of the Content Farm and their the year came in the content farm startup called Howcast specializes WikiHow.
Bud Black. A surprised Phillips
collective impact in the Web. space, when Yahoo! acquired in mass production of video Let us know in the comments
explains just how it happened, and
Sponsor Associated Content for an content, streaming 25 million your thoughts on the growth of
previews an intriguing A.L. Cy
Demand Media's IPO estimated $90-100M in May. videos each month on both its Content Farms in 2010. Are you
Young vote for FanHouse TV.
Demand Media is the epitome of Associated Content produces own web site and across a worried that this will dilute the
Click to watch:
a content farm and by far the around 10,000 new pieces of network that includes web portals quality of information on the
largest example of one, pumping content per week. The acquisition like AOL and Yahoo, and online Web? Discuss
out 7,000 pieces of content per immediately increased the number TV or video sites like YouTube,
day. In August Demand Media of pages Yahoo! has on the Web Hulu and Dailymotion.
filed for IPO(Initial Public by over 10%, adding some 20 As the name suggests, Howcast is
its data plan pricing as it prepares through the end of December. The That means people who couldn't
to launch its next-generation "4G" plan provides 200 megabytes of have otherwise afforded it, now
wireless network. Not only will data, limiting the number of have the ability to own a • Meet Erin Barry, Tony Parker's
the network price data plans based downloads, emails and Web- smartphone. However, consumers alleged texting buddy- Huffington
on the amount of data consumed, enabled apps customers can comes to us, it's because Apple don't have a clear grasp of what a Post
it may also price data plans based access. t h i n k s i t ' s t i m e , " h e s a i d . megabit, megabyte or gigabyte of • Kate Middleton might be
on the speed of the connection And as the company rolls out its Seidenberg also mentioned that data is nor how much data is scouting wedding locations!-
itself. 4G network, it plans to move Verizon's LTE network has drawn associated with using a particular People
"If you want to pay for less speed, further into tiered pricing in order Apple's interest and helped the function -like a download, using • Nicole Kidman is ready to show
you'll pay for less speed and to give its customers more options company get the iPad on its an app, surfing the Web or off her latest movie- Lainey
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h i g h s p e e d a n d c o n s u m e to pay. This doesn't necessarily Verizon thinks its 4G network argue that they shouldn't have to • Kal Penn is back in the White
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Officer Fran Shammo told the unlimited data plans though, consumption on mobile devices, should simply offer affordable PopEater
W a l l S t r e e t J o u r n a l i n a n Seidenberg said. "We need to get and, by 2016 or 2017, estimates unlimited plans as anything else • Mel wants to strip Oksana of
i n t e r v i e w , e x p l a i n i n g t h e into it, figure out what the that 30% of its customers use a will hamper real-world adoption custody- TMZ
possibilities offered by the new customer thinks is fair, and go GB of data per month. That's a o f s m a r t p h o n e s a n d t h e i r • Alanis Morissette is having a
pricing. from there," Seidenberg explained more conservative estimate than capabilities. In other words, if you boy!- Us Weekly
Sponsor in a WSJ interview. LTE Devices independent wireless analyst don't know how much data you • Real Housewife Sonja says her
Verizon's 4G network is set to on Their Way Chetan Sharma predicted earlier use, you'll always be worried bankruptcy is Travolta's fault-
debut in 38 cities around the He also said that Verizon will this year. He said that the average about going over and being Wonderwall
United States by year-end offering introduce a number of new customer will consume 4 GB of charged. The easiest solution is to • Mad Men's Vincent Kartheiser
speeds between 1 and 12 megabits devices supporting the LTE data per month within three years. not use data much at all. is too green for a toilet-
per second of data. (It's not true technology at the upcoming It seems tiered pricing functions At least the option to pay for 4G Celebitchy
4 G , w h i c h w o u l d r e q u i r e Consumer Electronics Show in as a roadblock, attempting to slow would be clearer: pay more for • Julie Benz is sad Jack
downloads of 100 Mbps). Las Vegas, but would not d o w n t h e l e v e l o f d a t a faster speed or don't. Discuss Nicholson never hit on her- Fox
However, the actual pricing for comment on whether or not any of consumption we would otherwise 411
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seemed to be just the sort of succeed politically for two attention and help too. nor boastful, nor proud. It is not for all to live joyful lives -- in
abstract theorizing that "ignor[es] reasons. First, its ambitions were Failure to fully appreciate these something one does for another short, that we are motivated by
the realities of everyday life." transformative, not reformative. sentiments led to the continuation person out of a sense of noblesse love.
For the working class, those Seeking to leave no child behind of the longstanding belief among oblige. It is something one does This fulfillment of Reagan's
realities include a hope for the and leave no senior without the working-class, and particularly for another person as an equal, dream will create a renewed
future but also a fear about the prescription drugs he wants is a ethnic-minority, Americans that concerned about the other's well- Republican party. It will cement
present. As I argued at length in a laudable goal, but in practice it conservative Republicans did not being as one is concerned about the loyalty of the working class
recent essay for National Review entailed giving the federal care about their lives. This is an one's own. and attract the economically
Online titled "Day of the government power to act with old caricature that has bedeviled The reform of our welfare state is mobile suburbanite. It will deliver
Democratic Dead" (Nov. 1, 2010), minimal concern for cost or conservatives since the Great the great policy challenge of our a growing economy whose tide
working-class Americans are very feasibility. Depression. Reagan himself noted time. will lift all boats, and it will
conscious of their tenuous place Therefore, traditional economic it when he observed that When applied to politics, this restore fiscal sanity without
in the middle class. They support conservatives felt out of place in a Republicans were, "for reasons spirit of love motivates policy that violating our national promises.
free enterprise because it enables coalition dominated by both fair and unfair," burdened aims to build people up, rather At first the new Republican
them to rise economically and "compassionate conservative" with a "country club-big business than condescending down in the majority will be much like our
make use of their God-given thinking. Today, the Tea Party image" that his modern name of charity. Consider, for supporters on November 2,
talents, but they also support mass might rail primarily against conservatism was meant to dispel. example, the Republican concentrated primarily among
-welfare-state measures like free earmarks, but the out-of-control Conservatives have always Congress's greatest domestic- whites. But as members of ethnic
public education, Social Security, federal spending the movement bristled at this image. I've been policy achievement: welfare minorities see that our faith in
and Medicare because they complains about is directly the involved in conservative circles reform. Conservatives genuinely freedom and our love are real,
believe these enable them to be result of the cost of enacting for over 30 years, and I've never loved the poor, and knew that the many of them will join our cause.
more secure and provide for their compassionate-conservative failed to observe an instinctive Aid to Families with Dependent This will be true particularly if we
children's future. They oppose measures. reaction from my friends when Children program was a millstone follow Reagan's advice that the
exorbitant taxation of the rich, but Second, the object of the "uncaring" label is hung around the necks of poor single new Republican party not be
they also oppose measures they compassionate conservatism's around their necks. Conservatives women. They reformed the "based on a principle of
perceive as enabling the rich to ambitions was the poor, not the do care about more than program not simply to save exclusion." In this time of
treat them as mere pawns in a working class. Today's working themselves and profits. Our very money, as their critics suggested, immigration and assimilation, we
global economic game. Profits, class is doing well but under involvement in politics is but to save lives. It worked, and should take Reagan's words to
yes, but people too. many pressures. Its members motivated by caring concern that the principles behind welfare heart: "You do not get to be a
Some might think that support for would like to see leaders who at lives will be impoverished by a reform can be applied to welfare- majority party by searching for
these concerns is inconsistent with least try to understand how they government that, with the best of state programs that mainly serve groups you won't associate or
conservative principle. I don't, and struggle to maintain their middle- intentions, treats too many the working class. work with."
neither did Ronald Reagan. He class lifestyle in the face of citizens as incompetent The reform of our welfare state is This shift will accelerate as
always expressed support for a downsizing, offshoring, and other mendicants and chokes off the the great policy challenge of our minorities see genuine
safety net, and in his 1977 speech features of modern economic life. entrepreneurial growth that alone time. It's important in part because conservative leaders like Marco
he said that "government Compassionate conservatism's lets the least among us get up and of our looming fiscal crisis, but if Rubio and Susana Martinez,
must#…#be compassionate in rhetoric and imagery were walk. It's time we stop keeping "reform" is only a code word for Nikki Haley and Bobby Jindal,
caring for those citizens who are directed almost exclusively at "the our true nature to ourselves and "cut," we shall not succeed. Allen West and Tim Scott, being
unable to care for themselves." least among us," the urban poor let others see us as we are. Americans will trust us with this treated as equals and not tokens.
Reagan loved liberty, but he was child trapped in a bad public Paul, in his First Letter to the task only if we can show them Already election polls show that
no libertarian. school, the prisoner seeking Corinthians, wrote of "faith, hope, what we already believe, that we Rubio and Martinez attracted
George W. Bush's reentry to mainstream life, those and love," and said that "the want to reform Social Security, nearly 40 percent of non-Cuban
"compassionate conservatism" addicted to drugs or alcohol. greatest of these three is love." Medicare, and public education Hispanics, well above the normal.
was an attempt to implement this Working-class voters wanted to The love that Paul speaks of is not merely to save money, but to BLUE page 32
Reaganesque vision, but it did not help these people, but they wanted patient and kind, neither envious, create the best possible conditions
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when yields on consulting firm interested in Munis should give it "The state is required to disclose largely sell tax-exempt debt to Congressional lame duck session
Municipal Market Advisors' index a look. the lawsuit to investors, and did individual investors, needed help approves a permanent extension
of AAA-rated 30-year municipals Bad Timing in California so this morning. Retail investors tapping the wider institutional to the temporary Build America
jumped up 15 basis points—or It is quite typical of California to on Monday and Tuesday ordered market. Bond Program, munis are very
0.15 percentage point— from the run into problems at exactly the $5.89 billion of the RANs. Those To this end, the U.S. government richly priced in this backdrop of
prior week. That is the biggest worst possible time. Le Los orders now have to be decided to rebate to state and local increasing global uncertainty and
move in 18 months, said Matt Angeles Times reports Bad reconfirmed in light of the new governments 35% of the interest likelihood of additional bond
Fabian, managing director at the timing: California seeks bond disclosure," a statement from Tom paid on a taxable bond issue. That downgrades and even defaults.
firm. buyers amid rout in muni market Dresslar, spokesman for allowed them to sell debt with I see no point in investing in
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even high-quality borrowers. Last Legislature has stuck it to said. corporate issues, and so garner October 2008 and there is no
week Harvard University was taxpayers: The long delay on a The building sale and lease-back wider investor attention, yet reason it can't (or even that it
forced to pay an interest rate budget agreement this year also plan was approved by the ultimately pay less interest. The shouldn't) crash again.
above a key benchmark rate and delayed the state’s plans to raise governor and legislature to help program has proven popular — Mike "Mish" Shedlock
reduce the amount of debt it sold cash in the municipal bond eliminate California's budget more than $150 billion of Build h t t p : / /
to close a $600 million bond deal. market. deficit. America Bonds have been issued globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.
That got investors' attention, said Now, Treasurer Bill Lockyer is Earlier on Wednesday, Lockyer as of October, according to the com
Mr. Fabian, and helped trigger the trying to get investors to buy $14 issued a notice for the deal's Treasury Department. Click Here To Scroll Thru My
price correction in the broader billion in debt amid a broad sell- preliminary official statement that Whether that flies will depend on Recent Post List Mike
market. off in the bond market overall, said a taxpayer lawsuit was filed the lame-duck session of "Mish" Shedlock is a registered
Another concern: the future of and the worst sell-off in many tax- in state court on Tuesday seeking Congress that begins on Monday. investment advisor representative
the Build America Bond program. free muni bonds since the to block the sale of 11 state office The best course would be for for SitkaPacific Capital
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month's midterm elections, market Notes Delayed Institutional David Reilly writing for the Wall government reduces the incentive management and capital
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Good but Expected News for Republicans: House John 17:17 (11-
18-10)
Democrats Re-Elect Pelosi as Their Leader (Verse of the Day)
noreply@blogger.com (Michael singled her out for attack in their implication of course, is that is an arrogant disingenuous fool. Submitted at 11/18/2010 2:00:00 AM
Shedlock) (Mish's Global campaigns. Many of the House Nancy Pelosi is an arrogant That may sound harsh, but it is
Economic Trend Analysis) Sanctify them by the truth; your
Democrats who went down to buffoon. the truth. Moreover, I point out
word is truth.
Submitted at 11/17/2010 7:25:00 PM defeat this month were moderates If Pelosi wants to reduce the once again: I am not a
— John 17:17(NIV) Thoughts on
In good, yet expected news for with ties to the speaker. budget deficit then "Where the Republican. I am an independent.
Today's Verse... God's promises,
Republicans House Democrats Re But it was precisely because of hell is the plan?" I vote for policies not parties. I am
God's Scripture, and God's
-Elect Pelosi as Their Leader The the sweeping defeat the Proving that I am an equal party in favor of a balanced budget
clearest message of all, his Son,
House speaker, Nancy Pelosi of Democrats suffered in the basher, I ask the same of the amendment, and I ask both parties
are truth. But only the last of these
California, was re-elected on elections that Ms. Pelosi said she Republicans "Where the hell is to back that idea.
is truth, grace, deliverer, friend,
Wednesday to lead the Democrats wanted to stay on as the caucus’s the plan?" The difference is Mike "Mish" Shedlock
Lord, Savior, brother, Redeemer...
in the next Congress, despite her leader. Republicans have a huge h t t p : / /
My Prayer... O God, give me a
party’s loss of more than 60 seats “Our consensus is that we go out advantage for two big reasons. globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.
holy passion to know your truth
and its majority control of the there listening to the American 1. Nancy Pelosi's big mouth com
and live it in both word and deed.
House in the midterm elections. people,” Ms. Pelosi told reporters 2. A devastating election for the Click Here To Scroll Thru My
Make my life a reflection of your
Officials said that Ms. Pelosi Wednesday afternoon after the Democrats Recent Post List Mike
Word, who both proclaimed and
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lived your truth. In the name of
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Jesus, your ultimate Word, I pray.
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sweeping and costly legislation moment too soon). because Nancy Pelosi looks like a Pacific.
passed during the past two years. Only an arrogant buffoon could arrogant, disingenuous fool. The
Republican candidates frequently not understand that. The simple reason is that Nancy Pelosi
dependable partisans. They are working-class voters, including Republicans. This group has been a Republican candidate. reducing the deficit, although
overwhelmingly white. They are white working-class women, likely to vote Republican Many of these voters are typically they balk at cutting
not likely to have graduated from voted for Republicans rather than regardless of who is running or susceptible to populist appeals, programs that would actually
college and many of them have Democrats. As the Pew poll what the condition of the especially during a downturn. reduce spending. That created a
not attended college at all. Most anticipates, that undoubtedly held economy is. But for the last four After all, they blame special genuine political dilemma for the
of them make less than $75,000. true among white working-class decades, another segment of white interests for their plight. And Obama administration and the
It’s fair to characterize them as voters who described themselves working-class voters has those special interests can include Democrats.
white working-class voters. Why as “independents.” gravitated between Republicans business as well as government, What is an effective political
are they independents and not These swing voters are probably and Democrats. Some of these as the Pew survey found even in response to this group? After the
Republicans and Democrats? one of the two groups that swelled voters identify themselves as the case of the white working- 1994 election, Bill Clinton, faced
According to the Pew poll, both the ranks of independents this “independents,” but that could class independents who leaned with massive defection of white
groups believe that “parties care election—up to 29 percent in this mean several things: They could Republican. This year, in the working-class voters, adopted a
more about special interests than year’s exit polls from 26 percent be voting one year for a different absence of an effective populist strategy of rhetorical
average Americans.” in 2006—and tilted the vote to the party than they backed two or four appeal from the left, many of appeasement, declaring that the
What accounts for the fact that Republicans. The other is years ago, or they may be splitting these white working-class voters “era of big government is over.”
the Disaffecteds are more likely to probably the Shadow their vote. Or, in some cases, it embraced a right-wing populism He also eschewed any new major
vote Republican and the Doubters Republicans, which included may be because of an anti- of the type typified by the Tea spending programs. But Clinton
Democratic? One source of voters who had previously government populism that Parties, which was directed was blessed with an economy
difference may be the gender gap. considered themselves includes skepticism about the two primarily at the government and that, unbeknownst to voters in the
The Disaffecteds are Republicans, but were alienated major parties. This description government programs. The Pew 1994 election, was about to enter
predominately male, and the by George W. Bush’s second certainly fit many of Ross Perot’s poll found, not surprisingly, that a boom. It really didn’t matter
Doubters female. Working-class term. supporters in 1992 and 1996. Shadow and Disaffected what Clinton actually did: By
women are more likely to see the Is there a special strategy that In good economic times, these Republicans enthusiastically back November 1996, he could take
Democrats as the party of Democrats can use to win over voters will sometimes back a the Tea Party—but as many credit for the economic revival.
economic security and to favor a these white working-class candidate, regardless of party, Doubting Democrats said they And the boom was what mattered
liberal social agenda. But insofar independents? And if there is a whom they believe understands agreed as disagreed with the Tea most to these voters.
as members of both groups vote strategy, does it consist in them or cares about them. That Party. Obama faces a much more
for the other party about one-third “changing the ways of was part of George W. Bush’s Because of their embrace of daunting situation. If he not only
of the time—they are not Washington?” I’ve not seen any appeal to these voters in 2000 and rightwing populism, white embraces the rhetoric of anti-
disguised partisans like the exit polls this year that 2004. But faced with an economic working-class voters rejected not government populism, but lends
Shadow Republicans and specifically plumb the views of downturn, they will oppose the only the Obama administration, his support to it by reducing or
Democrats—it’s probably most white working-class party that they hold responsible but its programs. They believed even freezing social spending, he
useful to regard them as members independents. That’s probably for it. In 1992 and 2008 that the stimulus and the health will risk perpetuating and even
of a single heterogeneous group much too small a category to downturns, many of these voters, care program made the economy deepening the downturn. That will
of swing voters who identify register in the national polls. So to outside of the Deep South, backed worse. Again, that included the ensure another landslide-scale
themselves for the moment as answer these questions, I have to Democrats because they blamed a working-class independents who defeat for the Democrats
“independents.” rely on political history and on Republican administration for the leaned Democratic. Doubting regardless of what Obama says
And the most important feature interviews I’ve done over the state of the economy. This year, Democrats disapproved of and does about opposing
of them is not that they call years. these voters blamed the Obama Obama’s Health Care legislation government expansion. It’s the
themselves “independents,” but From 1968 through 1994, many administration for rising by 54 percent to 32 percent. (By actual condition of the economy
that they belong to a social group white working-class voters in the unemployment, and voted against contrast, the more upscale that wins or loses their votes. And
that since the 1970s has become South and Midwest, alienated by Democrats. In this respect, the Shadow Democrats approved of it what about changing the way
an important swing vote. What Democratic support for civil fact that some of them identified by 72 percent to 19 percent.) Washington works? There are
happened in this November’s rights, abortion rights, and gun themselves as “independents” was These voters now favor cutting YOU'VE page 44
election is that many white control, became partisan irrelevant to their decision to back government spending and
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voters out there who care about Much of what Obama proposes to result. If he can’t do that, his only
eliminating earmarks, but they are do in response to the November recourse may be to get on his
probably not the white working- defeat sounds depressingly like knees and pray that unbeknownst
class voters who deserted him in what he proposed to do in January to most voters and many
2010. If you want to see how
much the white working class
2009. It’s not that he didn’t try to
work with the Republicans and to
economists, a strong and buoyant
recovery is about to begin. Now More than Ever
objects to earmarks, you can look change the ways of Washington: I want to thank Mark Submitted at 11/18/2010 3:00:44 AM
what. I only know that what is
at the failure of a Republican in He did, and failed, because the Blumenthal, John Sides, and Ruy posted will be sensible and
Erie, Pennsylvania, to take the Republicans were determined to Teixeira for their help with this The present age demands a attuned to what has worked in the
seat of the late Representative make him fail and appear weak. analysis. clearinghouse of traditional ideas. past.
John Murtha, the king of Yes, Obama does have to pay John B. Judis is a senior editor of F rom the Corner to its daily NRO is a clearinghouse of
earmarks, from Murtha’s former attention to those white working- The New Republic and a Visiting collection of articles, National traditional ideas, and in the
chief of staff and protégé, Mark class voters who shift uneasily Scholar at the Carnegie Review Online is a forum for present age — in which there is
Critz. Or you can look at the high from one party to the other, but Endowment for International center-right thought, but “center- no longer received wisdom and
opinion that West Virginia voters the way to win them over is to get Peace. right” implies no party line. everything is in flux — it deserves
had of the late Robert Byrd. The them jobs—and if that fails Visiting contributors and regulars our support.
primary criterion by which these because of Republican s p a r — s o m e t i m e s a n g r i l y , — Victor Davis Hanson is a
voters will decide who to support obstructionism, to make sure that sometimes dispassionately — classicist and historian at the
is the state of the economy, not these voters blame the o v e r s o m a n y i s s u e s a n d Hoover Institution.
the size or civility or transparency Republicans not the Democrats individuals that I never quite Victor Davis Hanson
of the government. and his administration for the know who will weigh in or on
On the Set of The Nate Berkus Show: How the Designer Turned a
Set Into a Home
Robyn Ross (TVGuide.com: For nine years, Berkus made out how to make something come
Breaking News) monthly appearances on Oprah, together."
Submitted at 11/18/2010 9:35:00 AM offering design expertise for those An upcoming segment with
who couldn't afford it, those who Jennifer Nettles, the lead singer of
Nate Berkus lost their homes, or just had plain- Sugarland, is a prime example of
When designer Nate Berkus was old bad taste. He says he's grateful his celebrity philosophy. "Jennifer
given his own daily syndicated for his work with Winfrey, but Nettles is really passionate in
talk show, his director told him he relishes being able to help others green design and reusing found
had two choices for the set: "It who are either financially or objects. [On the show we] we
could either look like a night club design-challenged on a daily give interesting ideas on how to
or it could look like a fake house basis. use what most people think is
with stairs that lead to nothing," The Nate Berkus Show launched trash in a really stylish way," he
the director said. as a one-hour syndicated program says.
Berkus said no to both. Sept. 13. Just as being on camera Not only did Nettles show how
Berkus, 39, spent the summer seemed effortless during his first she lives and how she decorates,
before the September launch Oprah Winfrey Show appearance, but on the episode, she surprises
designing the studio with vintage Berkus says he was never nervous her ultimate fan. Because at the
furniture, old books that he's read, about going out on his own. "I'm end of the day, Berkus is about
a wall of live greenery, and not the type of person that stops to car full of producers and we're me in doing something for bringing his show to the viewer,
colonial wall detailing. From the think, 'Can I do this?'" he says. going to surprise somebody and somebody else." being accessible, and celebrating
moment the audience members As a daily design show, it has ring the bell — and I know that's One of Berkus' qualities that those whom he inspires.
take their seats, they're in Berkus' literally transformed before the going to be the moment as soon as shine through on his show — and "That's what I am really here to do
home, not on his set. viewer's eye, but it hit its stride my finger hits the doorbell that in person — is his relatability, — to be that guy with his finger
"Your home should rise up to with continuing segments like the things are going to change. I'm so perhaps because he never wanted on the doorbell and all of a
greet you and the set really is an "While You Were Sleeping" lucky to have a daily show that t o b e a b i g s t a r . " I d i d n ' t sudden [everything] changes."
extension of that," he tells makeovers, in which Berkus and allows me to continue to be the necessarily want to be famous Watch a clip from The Nate
TVGuide.com in his green room. his team sneak into someone's guy that does that for people," he growing up, but I knew I would Berkus Show with guest Jennifer
In 2002, a spiky-haired Berkus home in the middle of the night says. be a good famous person because Nettles, airing Friday. Check your
was plucked from his Chicago and make it over by the morning. Like most talk shows, The Nate I'm not offended if somebody local listings for time.
design firm to head up a project On "House Pride," he showcases Berkus Show has celebrity guests, comes up to me and knows things This entry passed through the
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Zeit told USA Today on Mullen was personally handling who Cam Newton was when
Thursday-and-Long:
Wednesday that Rogers made it
clear that if anybody broke
the recruitment of Cam Newton
and no one was going to pay them
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that it was the first time he'd Why Would Players Give
NCAA rules, it was Cecil any money. Kenny said, 'Well, talked to Rogers since their
Newton.
"Nobody's pointing a finger at
how about $100,000?'"
Newton, a junior from College
playing days at Mississippi State.
"It was probably three phone calls
in on 18-Game Season?
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anybody affiliated with him.' He Auburn will play No. 17 South done something like that. I really players don't want an 18-game
said, 'I don't know if Auburn has Carolina in the Dec. 4 SEC believe it was Mr. Newton asking regular season. In the past few
or has not done anything wrong.' championship game in Atlanta's Kenny to do it. I don't think it was days, since an ESPN report came
He's not pointing a finger at Georgia Dome and can probably Kenny's idea." out detailing the NFLPA's counter
them." reach the Jan. 10 BCS National Mark Schlabach, Chris Low and -proposal to the league's idea of
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booster. I told Kenny that Coach Bell said he didn't even know
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Times, starting with the lede. Arizona’s controversial new in his opinion, overly critical of be Kicanas, clearly. But Kicanas Thus, the shepherd with a
The nation’s Catholic bishops immigration law. Though he the church. He’s certainly a very is a “moderate,” remember. “centrist” stance — thinking
bucked decades of tradition supports the church’s rulings intelligent spokesman for the OK, then there are some bishops logically — would be someone
Tuesday to select Archbishop against abortion, he has not church.” who are on the right, as in they who has strongly defended the
Timothy M. Dolan of New York denied Communion to politicians So Kicanas has not denied are advocating that sacramental church’s abortion stance verbally,
as their new leader, cementing his who support abortion rights, as Communion to those who support steps be taken to discipline while declining to raise feathers
reputation as a star of the more conservative bishops might abortion rights and neither has Catholics who openly and by defending it with a strategy
American church and prompting do, and has gained the enmity of Dolan, but Dolan is more in line consistently oppose church built on liturgical, sacramental
some commentators to suggest some on the Catholic right. He with the mood at the Vatican, teachings on abortion (and other discipline. That would be Dolan.
that the U.S. Catholic hierarchy also faced criticism for having which makes him a issues that Rome has raised to a So a “moderate” defeated a
may be turning rightward. ordained a priest who later “conservative” in comparison to similar level of doctrinal “liberal,” while the most
Dolan’s election as president of pleaded guilty to sexual abuse of the “moderates”? What does that importance). Did you note that the “conservative” candidates lost.
the U.S. Conference of Catholic five children, although Kicanas make the bishops who actually story said that these traditionalist Did I miss something somewhere
Bishops “signaled a clear denied reports that he had been have advocated denying bishops “might” take this action, in the Los Angeles Times story
ascendancy of the conservative aware the priest was a pedophile. Communion to Catholics who as in they are taking this step (other than an informed, articulate
bloc,” the National Catholic OK, we have “conservatives” have strongly opposed the seriously but not jumping in with voice from the conservative side
Reporter said. Others, however, competing against a “moderate” church’s teachings on this issue, both feet? That’s the “right wing” of the aisle)? Dolan is from the
said it primarily reflected Dolan’s and Father Reese (surprise, which the Vatican has stated must radicals. middle, correct? Has anyone read
personal charisma. surprise) is in the house. I am sure be defended in every way OK, so who would be a that lede anywhere? Written by:
OK, most observers of the we’ll get to that “traditionalist” or possible? “moderate” in this journalistic tmatt on November 17, 2010.
American Catholic scene would small-o “orthodox” commentator By the way, Rausch is not a hero scenario? What would be the This entry passed through the
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Father Thomas J. Reese, a doctrinal traditionalists. … Rausch said he saw Dolan as a Did the candidate supported by
theologian at Georgetown Dolan “has emerged as a very centrist, but Reese — known as a Reese win, the man hailed as the
University. “This is the first time charismatic figure,” said Father liberal — said he saw the election best hope for the church’s
that a vice president has been Thomas Rausch, a professor of as a sign that the bishops were progressive, liberal wing? The
defeated for president, so it’s theology at Loyola Marymount becoming more conservative. answer is “no.”
unprecedented.” University. “He’s fearless, he’s OK, so if Reese is “known as a So the left lost and the right lost.
Kicanas is known as a moderate not afraid to take on … the New liberal,” are there bishops that Someone from the territory in
who is a strong opponent of York Times and others who are, Reese supports? Yes, that would between those two camps won.
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the class of 2010 are deeper and debate the New York Times’s Kevin McCarthy, who is of a Capitol Hill home.
more varied than what Gingrich David Brooks on the op-ed pages more political bent, noted in All this reading brings certain
As in 1994, the GOP House suggested back in 1994. of the Times and the Wall Street Young Guns that he takes advantages but some
takeover was fueled by books and Eric Cantor, who is poised to Journal in September. Arthur Michael Barone’s Almanac of vulnerabilities as well. Liberals
ideas. But this time the reading become the House majority Brooks and Ryan argued for what American Politics with him will not be comforted to hear that
list is deeper and more varied. leader, reads voraciously. At one Commentary’s Jennifer Rubin wherever he goes. Other books many House members are reading
I n 1994, the last time the point, one of his staffers, Neil called a “course correction” to that have caught on with House The Battle, which some see as
Republicans wrested control of Bradley, recommended that he Obama’s economic model. David Republicans over the last two overly partisan and pugnacious.
the House of Representatives read George Gilder’s The Israel Brooks, in contrast, found the years include The Forgotten Man, And Boehner’s signal that he is
f r o m t h e D e m o c r a t s , N e w t Test. Cantor replied that he had Brooks/Ryan approach too Amity Shlaes’s revisionist take on using the speakership of Nicholas
Gingrich was the intellectual and read it six months earlier. Other “Manichean.” While the outcome the Depression, and, perhaps Longworth as a model inspired an
p o l i t i c a l f o r c e b e h i n d t h e recent Cantor reads include Joel was inconclusive, it was AEI’s somewhat surprisingly, Naftali attack from historian Bruce
takeover. In addition to his Kotkin’s The Next Hundred Brooks who found himself the Bendavid’s The Thumpin’: How Schulman regarding “Slick
political skills, Gingrich was quite Million: America in 2050, Claire preferred Brooks among House Rahm Emanuel and the Nick’s” penchant for fast living
the bibliophile, and before the B e r l i n s k i ’ s “ T h e r e I s N o GOP leaders. When the Democrats Learned to Be and his ruthless control over the
104th Congress convened he Alternative”: Why Margaret Republican Study Committee Ruthless and Ended the running of the House floor. Still,
produced a reading list for House Thatcher Matters, and Michael hosted him at a private dinner, Republican Revolution, which conservatives can take comfort
Republican members and staff. L e w i s ’ s M o n e y b a l l - - Rep. Michele Bachmann held up a provided insight into the from the fact that their new
Gingrich’s 1994 list was heavy on demonstrating that he does not copy of the book and insisted that Democratic congressional leaders are serious readers, and
military and business leadership limit himself to books about each of her colleagues take a takeover of 2006. that when they do read, they are
works, including, famously, Sun p o l i t i c s o r b o o k s b y complimentary copy from the Speaker-to-be John Boehner, paying attention to what
Tzu’s The Art of War and Alvin conservatives. In addition to stash Brooks’s publisher had while not flashy about it, is a conservatives have to say.
Toffler’s The Third Wave. books, Cantor also regularly reads provided. quiet, behind-the-scenes reader, — Tevi Troy is a visiting senior
#ad#Fast-forward 16 years, and The Weekly Standard, National While Ryan and Cantor may be who opens up a book as soon as fellow at the Hudson Institute and
Republicans have once again Review(and National Review the best-known readers in the he gets on an airplane. In addition author of Intellectuals and the
taken over the House of Online), Forbes, Fortune, House GOP, they are far from the to reading the Shlaes book, American Presidency:
Representatives, and once again BusinessWeek, Time, and -- for a only ones. Tom Price, who will be Boehner recently revealed to Philosophers, Jesters, or
books and ideas were central to change of pace -- People. the new Policy Committee Politico that he was reading Kings Technicians? He previously
that effort. In contrast to the last Another big reader is Paul Ryan, chairman, has recently read the of the Hill, about nine past House served as a senior White House
group of GOP leaders to take over likely chairman of the Budget Berlinski book on Thatcher; speakers, by Dick and Lynne aide, and he worked for the House
the House, however, the new Committee. He is one of the many Dissed Trust: America’s Crisis of Cheney. Boehner’s top aide, Republican Policy Committee
leaders -- who were formally House GOP fans of The Battle: Truth, Faith, and Freedom, by Barry Jackson, once headed the during the 104th Congress. Tevi
elected by the GOP Conference How the Fight between Free William DeMersseman; and Write White House Office of Strategic Troy
this Wednesday -- are far less Enterprise and Big Government It When I’m Gone: Remarkable Initiatives, George W. Bush’s in-
dependent on one man to inspire Will Shape America’s Future, by Off-the-Record Conversations house think tank, and has an
their reading selections. And the AEI president Arthur Brooks. In with Gerald R. Ford, by Thomas extensive and well-thumbed
books and periodicals favored by fact, he teamed up with Brooks to DeFrank. Incoming GOP whip library of serious nonfiction in his
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controversial quest to try Ghailani “now faces a minimum defendant as an unwitting I came to the conclusion that jihadists who want to destroy
Guantanamo detainees in the of 20 years and a potential life collaborator, or, as Ghailani’s these apparently disparate issues human rights, and mount a kind of
criminal justice system. sentence for his role in the attorney Peter Quijano put it: and phenomena were intimately secular inquisition to destroy the
The trial took place in lower embassy bombings.” Mason This innocent, naive boy was connected. Western society – careers and reputations of those
Manhattan before a jury of six Clutter from the Soros-linked used as a dupe by his particularly in Britain, but many who dare assert scientific
men and six women. In addition Constitution Project declared, friends…Call him a pawn, call of these trends were also on evidence against ideological
to the murder (and attempted “The system worked here.” Did him a fall guy, but don’t call him display in the US and other dogma.
murder) charges, Ghailani, who is it? In all likelihood, the now- guilty. western countries – was just I came eventually to the
a former Islamic cleric, was also convicted terrorist will indeed The upshot is that, according to losing the plot wholesale. It conclusion that, far from ushering
accused of conspiring with Osama face life in prison. Such glowing his defense team, Ghailani knew seemed to be experiencing a in an age of perfect reason,
bin Laden and al-Qaeda. Ghailani pronouncements, however, that he was participating in a wholesale repudiation of reason equality and human rights, the
had been held in Guantanamo fundamentally misunderstand the concerted effort of some kind, and progress, and was moving secular onslaught against the
since September 2006 until being broader — and more but, hypothetically speaking, this backwards into a darker, pre- Judeo-Christian heritage had
transfered to New York in 2009. disconcerting — issue at stake. does not necessarily mean that he modern pattern of anti- seriously undermined rationality,
The decision to try Ghailani in A puzzling aspect of the Ghailani was aware that what he was enlightenment and bigotry. the equal dignity of all human
New York City — a “trial” case is the one count for which participating in was meant to have This was particularly striking, beings and their human rights.
balloon, if you will — was met the defendant was found guilty: lethal consequences. At least the since western society tells itself And indeed – curious as this may
with fierce opposition from both taking part in a conspiracy to jury decided it could not that it is the very acme of reason – seem – at the very core of all
hawkish conservatives and destroy U.S. property. Prima determine intent to kill given the so much so that, particularly in these civilization-busting
heedful liberals alike. The trial facia, it is unclear how a jury lack of probative evidence and the Britain, progressives dismiss ideologies lies an animus against
proceeded for five weeks and the could find someone guilty of apparently successful obfuscation organized religion as just so much Jews, the religious codes of
jury deliberated for five days conspiracy, but not, by extension, of the true nature of the irrational mumbo-jumbo which Judaism or the right to national
before rendering its verdict. hold that person accountable for defendant’s state of mind at the stands in opposition to science, self-realization of the Jewish
Many are already claiming a the deaths that resulted from that time the bombing occurred. human rights and modernity. Yet people.
victory of sorts for the Obama conspiracy. these very people want to return
administration, and the Justice In ordinary jurisprudence, the the west to some pre-industrial
Department wasted no time prosecution must prove intent nirvana of mud huts and
issuing a written statement beyond a reasonable doubt. In this communal living in order to ’save
claiming to be “pleased” that case, the defense portrayed the the planet’, take the side of