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

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.”

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

Deception at Core of Obama Plans — Charles Krauthammer, RealClearPolitics

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

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.

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

The Obamamessiah has another uh-oh moment. — Cassy Fiano, Wizbang

How my mother’s fanatical feminist views tore us apart — Rebecca Walker, UK Mail Online

The List: The World’s Most Dangerous Gangs — Foreign Policy Magazine

Stolen Laptop Helps Turn Tables on Suspects — Lisa W. Foderaro, New York Times

This is a fun one. Check it out.

Sweet Seventeen — Ari, The Edge of the American West

“On this day in 1913, the Seventeenth Amendment was ratified, providing for the direct election of Senators…”

This Will Be The #1 Issue in the 2008 Elections… And, It Goes to Republicans — Gateway Pundit