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Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don’t Go — Thomas H. Benton, The Chronicle of Higher Education

Quirky

Individually-sparked, collectively developed innovation.

White House boasts: We ‘control’ news media — Aaron Klein, World Net Daily

ACORN: The Pretense of Caring — Anita Moncrief

What Do We Burn When All The Books Are Gone? — Dan Compora, Airlock Alpha

“Not exactly what Ray Bradbury envisioned, but close.”

The Professionals Who Become Presidents: There was a lawyer, an engineer and a politician… Why do professional paths to the top vary so much? — The Economist

The Coming of the Fourth American Republic — James V. Delong, The American Magazine

“Joe the Plumber” sues over Ohio records probe — AP

Deception at Core of Obama Plans — Charles Krauthammer, RealClearPolitics

‘Kings’ Retells David And Goliath Story, In A New Way — Michael Hinman, Airlock Alpha

Atlas Shrugged: From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years — Stephen Moore, WSJ.com

The Truth About Tytler – Loren Collins

This is an enlightening article about a couple of anonymous quotes that apparently make the forwarded e-mail rounds every once in a while. I found it clicking through a Snopes page that I found when I googled a phrase that I heard from one of Rush Limbaugh’s guest hosts recently: “Professor Tyler’s definition of [...]

The night we waved goodbye to America… our last best hope on Earth — Peter Hitchens, UK Daily Mail

This article is quite melancholy, but hard to argue with.

Obama and the Politics of Crowds — Fouad Ajami, WSJ.com

An excerpt from “To Sail beyond the Sunset”, by Robert A. Heinlein

“The America of my time is a laboratory example of what can happen to democracies, what has happened to all perfect democracies throughout all histories. A perfect democracy, a ‘warm body’ democracy, in which every adult may vote and in which all votes count equally, has no internal feedback for self-correction. Once a [...]

Anger Is Crowds Overarching Emotion at McCain Rally — Michael D. Shear and Perry Bacon Jr., Washington Post

Can’t say that I blame them.

The 50 Richest Members of Congress — Roll Call

“Everything that you are about to read might be wrong. Roll Call’s annual attempt to rank the riches of Members of Congress is hampered by one fundamental flaw: It is based on the lawmakers’ financial disclosure forms, which are extraordinarily unreliable sources of information…”

Obama: Palin’s Family is Off Limits, Except When It Isn’t — Jim Geraghty, The Campaign Spot on National Review Online

Why Martin Luther King Was Republican — Frances Rice, Human Events

Of course this only makes sense given the history of the Civil War, but for some reason reading this took me aback. Some residual public school/media conditioning still held some slight sway, I guess. With this, there’s less now than there was yesterday.

Want Real Change? Quit Nominating Lawyers! — Victor Davis Hanson, Townhall.com