More than just required reading today, I swear. As always, send your scoop in to us at tips@americasfuture.org. BLOGS The Onion scores major points with me with the “news” that the United States staged a fake coup to erase its international debt. Rupert Murdoch plans to start charging for all of his online news sources. [...]
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More Required Reading 8/5/09
August 5, 2009 – 10:29 am
Because everybody loves extra reading. Come on, today you get 2 for the price of 1. BLOGS Reason and National Review will help you avoid anything “fishy”. We’re running out of numbers to describe the national debt. No big deal. We’ll just add some zeroes. Megan McArdle goes for broke on obesity (which makes it [...]
Better Than Television
August 4, 2009 – 12:25 pm
Put down the remote. You don’t need to watch the Gosselins tonight. Here are the internet videos running around the DC blogosphere that you need to see today: Are you kidding? Obama says different things to different audiences at different times? Wild. And he’s a politician, right? Unprecedented. Desperately trying to figure out what the [...]
Tuesday Required Reading 8/4/09
August 4, 2009 – 9:54 am
Celebrate the President’s (alleged) birthday with these awesome reads! (As always, send events, gossip, or articles to tips@americasfuture.org) BLOGS Radley Balko on the attempt to defy the ban on Steven Hayne. Even though I like putting “alleged” in parenthesis between Happy and Birthday, it’s still nonsense. Joe Gandelman at The Moderate Voice, rounds up the proof [...]
Friday Required Reading 7/31/09
July 31, 2009 – 1:50 pm
Howdy AFFers! As always, send any events, articles, or news to tips@americasfuture.org BLOGS It looks like the love affair between Obama and Newsweek might be coming to an end. The Obama Administration now has more czars than Imperial Russia. Megan McArdle on why she opposes nationalized healthcare. Ben Domenech responds at The New Ledger, and [...]
Thursday Required Reading, 7/30/09
July 30, 2009 – 9:45 am
I had 1,000 items to go through in Google Reader this morning for these links. Please click every single one of them. You won’t regret it. As usual, send us any social news, event suggestions, or required readings to tips@americasfuture.org. BLOGS According to The American Scene, the government should subsidize and not tax smokers, because [...]
Bloggers Are The New Legislative Watchdog
July 29, 2009 – 4:21 pm
A website called FreeMarketers.com is recruiting bloggers to read portions of new legislation (particularly, now, the health care bill) and report on the website of their findings. Then viewers can read, review, and comment on their findings. It’s a great concept – one senator may not be able (/won’t bother) to read the 1000+ pages [...]
