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Presidential Control Freaks Ruin Democracies — Alexandre Marinis, Bloomberg.com

In West Wing: Grueling Schedules, Bleary Eyes — Michael D. Shear, Washington Post

Adrenaline-junkie behavior is rampant in the current occupant of the White House and his staff: “…Behind the scenes, it was even worse. The night before Obama announced the administration’s housing plan on Feb. 18 in Arizona, Sperling e-mailed the final documents at 3 a.m. and asked for comments. Five people responded immediately. Martin Moore-Ede, a former Harvard [...]

Honduras Defends Its Democracy — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ

“Fidel Castro and Hillary Clinton object.”

Conscience Protection Update: What Might Happen Next and Why You Should Care — Catherina Favazza

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

Deception at Core of Obama Plans — Charles Krauthammer, RealClearPolitics

100 Interview Questions You Should Be Prepared to Answer — Thad Peterson, Monster Staff Writer, InsideTech

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

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

From “Miracles”, Ch. 2 of “God in the Dock” — C.S. Lewis

“Experience by itself proves nothing. If a man doubts whether he is dreaming or waking, no experiment can solve his doubt, since every experiment may be itself part of the dream. Experience proves this, or that, or nothing, according to the preconceptions we bring to it.”

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

‘Basic Instinct’ author writes book about faith — Toledo Blade

Escape from Darkness (expanded version) — Answers in Genesis

“A Former Radical Muslim Reveals Secrets All Christians Must Know.”

Boxer Bullies Senate’s Birth Doc — Debra Saunders, RealClearPolitics

Babs Boxer is harassing one of the precious few non-lawyers in our supposedly representative government [Last time I checked, though, our society was not made up of 97% lawyers, thank God]. How is discouraging a doctor from delivering babies of poor families at no cost not the behavior of a de facto eugenicist?

Beijing Olympics: Faking scandal over girl who ’sang’ in opening ceremony — Richard Spencer, UK Telegraph