“That Way Lies Madness”

CNN’s “GPS” with Fareed Zakaria featured an economics discussion with Paul Krugman vs John B. Taylor on . Normally I’d embed the video here but apparently CNN video is not currently compatable with wordpress.com blogs.
If you prefer to read through the interview, here’s a transcript of the show.

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Underground Iranian Newsletters Being Distributed by Protestors

The L.A. Times reports that The European Photo Agency has posted a photo of an underground newspaper circulating among protestors in Iran.

Fellow WordPress blog, Iran In the Gulf, has linked a PDF file of the paper and has published some English translations.

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Authority Gone Awry

I held off from writing about this local story because it was just one man’s claim that he’d been assaulted by police. There was no evidence to support him, aside from his wounds, which could have been self-inflicted. But now that the grand jury testimony of another cop on the scene has [...]

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The Straight Talk Express

McCain steps up his disinformation campaign with a new ad released yesterday:

The narration goes:
Obama says Iran is a “tiny country”, “doesn’t pose a serious threat.”
Terrorism. Destroying Israel. Those aren’t serious threats? Obama: dangerously unprepared to be president.
Here’s what Obama actually said, in it’s intended context:
“Strong countries and strong [...]

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The Agenda to Dehumanize Barack Obama

Texasdarlin (sounds like a real peach) claims to have unearthed “proof” that Obama is not only Muslim, but also a citizen of Indonesia.
I wouldn’t normally bother with such lowly blogger drivel but this has been making it’s way around.
More on the Agenda to Dehumanize Barack Obama

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Vacation Storm

This storm rolled into Rehoboth Beach, DE, late Sunday morning.

The video really doesn’t do it justice.  At the height of the hailstorm the iceballs ranged from the size of marbles to some that were as big as a supeball.  And they were pounding us, probably for about 20 minutes.  I didn’t think the windows were going to make it [...]

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FOX News Channel Edits Paris Hilton’s Response to McCain

I’ve had FNC on the TV for about an hour and they’ve rolled this video twice – with considerable praise from the three morning anchors. But each time they curiously omitted the frst 20 seconds of the video, with no mention of the missing content.

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