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Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:57:44 -0500 09/09/2010/00/00/00 David Warren, Ottawa Citizen
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Rep. John Boehner (Flickr/republicanconference)The buzzword of this election year, at least for Republicans, is "uncertainty." House Republican Leader John Boehner uses the word at every opportunity: "Small-business operators ... are filled with massive uncertainty." "When there is that much uncertainty employers just freeze. ... They are afraid to move forward because they don't know what is coming next." The expiring Bush tax cuts, implementation of financial regulation and health reform, and the lingering possibility that Congress will pass cap-and-trade...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/09/gop_caused_economic_uncertainty_241386.htmlhttp://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=uncertainly_wronghttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=uncertainly_wrong 100241386 Early Morning Update Mark Schmitt, American Prospect Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:55:37 -0500 09/09/2010/00/00/00 Robert Robb, Arizona Republic
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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/09/corruption_and_waste_in_afghanistan_241422.htmlhttp://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/10/a_framework_seriously_bent_107097.htmlhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/10/a_framework_seriously_bent_107097.html 100241422 Early Morning Update Eugene Robinson, Indianapolis Star Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:39:45 -0500 09/09/2010/00/00/00 Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
The prospects are dim but the process is right. The Obama administration is to be commended for structuring the latest rounds of Middle East talks correctly. Finally, we're leaving behind interim agreements, of which the most lamentable were the Oslo accords of 1993.The logic then was that issues so complicated could only be addressed step by step in the expectation that things get easier over time. In fact, they got harder. Israel made concrete concessions -- bringing in Yasser Arafat to run the West Bank and Gaza -- in return for which Israel received growing threats, continuous...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/09/your_move_mr_abbas_241418.htmlhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/09/AR2010090904999.htmlhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/09/AR2010090904999.html 100241418 Early Morning Update Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post 44669 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:50:06 -0500 09/09/2010/00/00/00 Robert Reich, Huffington Post
This originally appeared on Robert Reich's blogWord from the twelve Federal Reserve Banks, summarized in the Fed's so-called "Beige Book," shows the economy slowing in July and August. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/09/the_tortoise_economy_241359.htmlhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/the-tortoise-economy_b_709800.htmlhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.salon.com/news/great_recession/index.html?story=/news/feature/2010/09/08/reich_tortoise_economy 100241359 PM Update Robert Reich, Huffington Post 45360 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:47:18 -0500 09/09/2010/00/00/00 Jay Ambrose, Boston Herald
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THE PRESIDENT'S POIGNANT ONE-TWO PUNCH.... Watching President Obama's speech just outside Cleveland yesterday, something seemed a little different.The president has a habit of going out of his way -- perhaps even too far -- to give his detractors and opponents the benefit of the doubt. He'll characterize Republicans -- whom he'll often just call "some in Congress" or "the minority" -- as sincere but mistaken. He'll try to emphasize areas of agreement with his critics, and point to issues where he'd like to see bipartisan support. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/09/obama039s_poignant_one-two_punch_241385.htmlhttp://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_09/025586.phphttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_09/025586.php 100241385 PM Update Steve Benen, Washington Monthly 45361 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:50:13 -0500 09/09/2010/00/00/00 George Will, Washington Post
The libretto of this operatic election season, understandably promoted by Democrats and unsurprisingly sung by many in the media, is that Republicans have sown the seeds of November disappointments by nominating candidates other than those the party's supposedly wiser establishment prefers. This theory is inconvenienced by two facts: South Carolina's Nikki Haley and Tim Scott."I am a policy girl," Haley, 38, says demurely. But she is a savvy politician who in 2004 won a state legislature seat by defeating the longest-serving incumbent. Although the state's Republican...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/09/the_new_faces_of_south_carolina_241347.htmlhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/08/AR2010090805706.html?hpid=opinionsbox1http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/08/AR2010090805706.html?hpid=opinionsbox1 100241347 PM Update George Will, Washington Post 34869 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:51:14 -0500 09/09/2010/00/00/00 Joe Klein, Time
0diggsdigg "Hi, I'm Bryan Lentz, and I'm running for Congress," the candidate says, and hands the voter a black-and-white brochure. It is early morning in the Philadelphia suburbs on the Tuesday after Labor Day. Lentz is offering the daily communion of electoral politics, handing out brochures, shaking hands — tedious and sometimes downright unpleasant work but far less toxic than every candidate's other main activity: dialing for dollars. Lentz, a Democrat, is running to replace Joe Sestak, who is a candidate for the U.S. Senate. He's a big guy,...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/09/election_road_trip_beyond_the_sound_bites_241382.htmlhttp://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,2016821,00.htmlhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,2016821,00.html 100241382 PM Update Joe Klein, Time 45366 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:09:27 -0500 09/09/2010/00/00/00 Patrick McIlheran, RCP
Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle, about to retire, really wants his state to dive into the passenger-train swamp. He wants it so badly, he's throwing $300 million into the murk in hopes the state's next governor feels duty-bound to chase it.This matters outside Wisconsin. It's your money, for one thing: Wisconsin's plans for a high-speed train are predicated on vast sums of money taken from elsewhere by the Obama administration and sent here. Receive news alertsAnd the mechanism Doyle's using to lock his state into his pet project is exactly the one you'll see in other...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/09/wisconsins_rail_dream_is_a_spending_nightmare_107012.htmlhttp://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/09/wisconsins_rail_dream_is_a_spending_nightmare_107012.htmlhttp://www.realclearpolitics.com/printpage/?url=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/09/wisconsins_rail_dream_is_a_spending_nightmare_107012.html 200241379 PM Update Patrick McIlheran, RCP Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:51:13 -0500 09/09/2010/00/00/00 Timothy Noah, Slate
Our story begins in the 1950s, at the dawn of the computer age, when homo sapiens first began to worry that automation would bring about mass unemployment. Economic theory dating back to the 19th century said this couldn't happen, because the number of jobs isn't fixed; a new machine might eliminate jobs in one part of the economy, but it would also create jobs in another part. For example, someone had to be employed to make these new machines. But as the economists Frank Levy of MIT and Richard J. Murnane of Harvard have noted, computers represented an entirely different sort of...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/09/the_united_states_of_inequality_241380.htmlhttp://www.slate.com/id/2266025/entry/2266508/http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.slate.com/id/2266025/entry/2266508/ 100241380 PM Update Timothy Noah, Slate 45362 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:48:36 -0500 09/09/2010/00/00/00 Megan McArdle, The Atlantic
The Wall Street Journal has a story today on something that health care bloggers--at least, those who were skeptical of health care reform--have been talking about for a while now:  insurance companies are raising rates in response to the legislation.  Or, at least that's why they say they're raising rates.  Kevin Drum is skepticalIs this happening because insurers just had a mass outbreak of meanness?  Or is it because no congress, no matter how large their landslide, can repeal the laws of supply and demand?http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/09/why_are_health_insurers_raising_rates_241377.htmlhttp://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/09/insurers-raising-rates-is-health-care-reform-to-blame/62649/http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/09/insurers-raising-rates-is-health-care-reform-to-blame/62649/ 100241377 PM Update Megan McArdle, The Atlantic 45363 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:51:06 -0500 09/09/2010/00/00/00 Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker
Speaking from the Oval Office last Tuesday evening to mark what he called, with more hope than precision, “the end of our combat mission in Iraq,” President Obama had occasion to mention the previous occupant. “This afternoon,” he said,I spoke to former President George W. Bush. It’s well known that he and I disagreed about the war from its outset. Yet no one can doubt President Bush’s support for our troops, or his love of country and commitment to our security. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/09/bush_obama_and_the_cost_of_iraq_241307.htmlhttp://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2010/09/13/100913taco_talk_hertzberghttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2010/09/13/100913taco_talk_hertzberg 100241307 PM Update Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker 45364 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:50:02 -0500 09/09/2010/00/00/00 Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest
La rentrée is what the French call this time of year: the re-entry.  Everything comes to a stop in August; it is too hot to work, and the whole country slows down during the late summer dog days.  Then, come September, we come back from the beach, from the cabin in the woods,  or wherever we’ve been, and the life of the working world starts up.The air turns crisp; apples from the new harvest replace melons, berries, peaches and apricots in the produce aisle.  On the first cool nights of September, we remember: there is such a thing as...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/09/buck_up_america_241311.htmlhttp://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/09/07/buck-up-america/http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2010/09/07/buck-up-america/ 100241311 PM Update Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest 45365 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:05:05 -0500 09/09/2010/00/00/00 Michael Barone, Washington Examiner
When you spot the word "triage" in a political news story, you know someone is in trouble. Triage is the procedure by which medical personnel screening people injured in combat or disasters separate those who can be saved from those who can't. The first group is given immediate surgery in hopes of recovery. The second is given painkillers to make the end bearable.http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/09/sinking_with_obama_democrats_plan_political_triage_107079.htmlhttp://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/09/sinking_with_obama_democrats_plan_political_triage_107079.htmlhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/09/sinking_with_obama_democrats_plan_political_triage_107079.html 200241343 AM Update Michael Barone, Washington Examiner Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:13:19 -0500 09/09/2010/00/00/00 Gene Lyons, Salon
Among the enlightened, dialing the psychic hotline is considered superstitious, although watching TV pundits call elections two months before the vote is taken seriously. True, political forecasters have opinion polls to guide them, but then it's also a safe bet that anybody phoning a psychic has a troubled love life.History suggests that Democrats are in for a tough November. But will Republicans succeed in retaking one or both houses of Congress? Anybody who professes certainty is either blowing smoke or watching too much Fox News. Two months can be an eternity in politics....http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/09/it039s_good_to_have_obama_on_the_campaign_trail_241360.htmlhttp://www.salon.com/news/politics/2010_elections/index.html?story=/opinion/feature/2010/09/08/obama_campaign_trailhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.salon.com/news/politics/2010_elections/index.html?story=/opinion/feature/2010/09/08/obama_campaign_trail 100241360 AM Update Gene Lyons, Salon 45135 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:57:48 -0500 09/09/2010/00/00/00 John Podhoretz, Commentary
The big news in all the polls is the astounding gap in electoral enthusiasm between voters intending to vote Republican and voters intending to vote Democratic — Gallup has it as a 25 point difference, it appears. Rich Lowry explains in a fine column today that the president is trying to close the gap by appealing to his base:While most people want less of Obama’s program, his base wants more. Obama could ease off his spending to try to take the edge off the brewing backlash, but that would anger his supporters. Instead, he promises his union-member allies yet...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/09/will_partisan_rhetoric_make_it_worse_241313.htmlhttp://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/jpodhoretz/354746http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/jpodhoretz/354746 100241313 AM Update John Podhoretz, Commentary 45136 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:15:25 -0500 09/09/2010/00/00/00 E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
WASHINGTON -- President Obama decided this week to raise the stakes in this fall's election by making the choice about something instead of nothing but anger.In the process, he will confront a deeply embedded media narrative that sees a Republican triumph as all but inevitable. Paradoxically, such extravagant expectations may be the GOP's biggest problem -- by raising the bar for what will constitute success, and by discouraging necessary strategic adjustments should our newly combative president begin to alter the political battlefield. Receive news alertsUntil Obama's Labor...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/09/obama_shows_he_can_do_battle.htmlhttp://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/09/obama_shows_he_can_do_battle.htmlhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/09/its_not_over_till_its_over_107077.html 200241331 AM Update E.J. Dionne, Washington Post Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:20:26 -0500 09/09/2010/00/00/00 Thomas Cooley, Forbes
There is an epic and epically unpleasant debate that taking place for much of the last year about stimulus and austerity. On one side are the born-again Keynesians who believe that our recovery is faltering because we simply haven't spent enough to jolt the economy into recovery. This lot includes the Obama administration and some of its harshest critics. They point to the experience of the 1930s when, after signs of recovering, the economy slipped back into recession.They have castigated the Germans for failing to be good economic citizens of the world for focusing on fiscal...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/09/obama_frames_the_wrong_economic_problem_241301.htmlhttp://www.forbes.com/2010/09/07/economy-recovery-deficit-opinions-columnists-thomas-cooley.html?boxes=opinionschannellatest 100241301 AM Update Thomas Cooley, Forbes 45145 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:21:40 -0500 09/09/2010/00/00/00 Krugman & Wells, New York Review of Books
In the winter of 2008–2009, the world economy was on the brink. Stock markets plunged, credit markets froze, and banks failed in a mass contagion that spread from the US to Europe and threatened to engulf the rest of the world. During the darkest days of crisis, the United States was losing 700,000 jobs a month, and world trade was shrinking faster than it did during the first year of the Great Depression.By the summer of 2009, however, as the world economy stabilized, it became clear that there would not be a full replay of the Great Depression. Since around June 2009 many...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/09/the_slump_goes_on_why_241346.htmlhttp://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/sep/30/slump-goes-why/http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/sep/30/slump-goes-why/ 100241346 AM Update Krugman & Wells, New York Review of Books 43374 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:00:54 -0500 09/09/2010/00/00/00 Michael Lewis, Vanity Fair
After an hour on a plane, two in a taxi, three on a decrepit ferry, and then four more on buses driven madly along the tops of sheer cliffs by Greeks on cell phones, I rolled up to the front door of the vast and remote monastery. The spit of land poking into the Aegean Sea felt like the end of the earth, and just as silent. It was late afternoon, and the monks were either praying or napping, but one remained on duty at the guard booth, to greet visitors. He guided me along with seven Greek pilgrims to an ancient dormitory, beautifully restored, where two more solicitous monks offered...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/09/beware_of_greeks_bearing_bonds_241357.htmlhttp://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2010/10/greeks-bearing-bonds-201010http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2010/10/greeks-bearing-bonds-201010 100241357 AM Update Michael Lewis, Vanity Fair 26533 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:24:07 -0500 09/09/2010/00/00/00 Sally Pipes, San Francisco Chronicle
Opposition to the new health reform law is continuing to grow in the states - just as Congress prepares for its final pre-election legislative session.Colorado, for instance, just placed an initiative on the ballot that would, if passed, block many aspects of Obamacare - including the requirement that individuals purchase health insurance. A similar measure was overwhelmingly approved by voters in Missouri last month. And several states recently announced that they don't believe they have the authority to enforce the new law.http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/09/states_fight_new_health_care_law_241304.htmlhttp://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/09/08/EDHP1F9U9K.DTLhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/09/08/EDHP1F9U9K.DTL 100241304 AM Update Sally Pipes, San Francisco Chronicle 23579 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:25:34 -0500 09/09/2010/00/00/00 Dinesh D'Souza, Forbes
Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history. Thanks to him the era of big government is back. Obama runs up taxpayer debt not in the billions but in the trillions. He has expanded the federal government's control over home mortgages, investment banking, health care, autos and energy. The Weekly Standard summarizes Obama's approach as omnipotence at home, impotence abroad.The President's actions are so bizarre that they mystify his critics and supporters alike. Consider this headline from the Aug. 18, 2009 issue of the Wall...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/09/how_obama_thinks_241329.htmlhttp://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0927/politics-socialism-capitalism-private-enterprises-obama-business-problem.html 100241329 AM Update Dinesh D'Souza, Forbes 44777 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:26:51 -0500 09/09/2010/00/00/00 Dana Milbank, Washington Post
The Democrats, facing an electoral washout in November of the sort rarely seen since the campaign of Noah (D- Mt. Ararat), have launched their autumn campaign with one of the underdog's time-honored strategies: pooh-poohing the polling."I don't put too much stock in polls 55 days before an election," President Obama's top tactician, David Axelrod, told Meredith Vieira on the Today Show Wednesday morning."Look, I don't think the American people are sitting there with poll numbers at their kitchen table," Axelrod informed Erica Hill on CBS's Early...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/09/dem_strategists_pooh-pooh_the_polls_241342.htmlhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/08/AR2010090805350.html?hpid=opinionsbox1http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/08/AR2010090805350.html?hpid=opinionsbox1 100241342 AM Update Dana Milbank, Washington Post 45316 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:29:18 -0500 09/09/2010/00/00/00 Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal
With the midterm election less than two months away, all signs point to a punishing defeat for Democrats in the House of Representatives.Since July 1, there have been 111 polls released on U.S. House races in 79 districts. Some were commissioned by news organizations; others came from the campaigns themselves or political groups (a detailed list is posted at Rove.com). Ninety-seven polls were conducted in seats held by Democrats while 14 were in Republican districts.http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/09/the_outlook_dims_for_democrats_241351.htmlhttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703453804575479841244178372.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinionhttp://mobile2.wsj.com/device/article.php?mid=1&CALL_URL=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703453804575479841244178372.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinion 100241351 AM Update Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal 38038 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:36:54 -0500 09/09/2010/00/00/00 A.J. Duffy, USA Today
Teachers are more than the sum of a single measure, which is why the value-added rating system is so unreliable.When the Los Angeles Times recently published scores for 6,000 local teachers using the value-added system — a statistical measure of student improvement on standardized tests over a multiyear period — it investigated an issue that every parent of a public school child cares about, but it chose to focus on sensationalism over substance.http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/09/rating_teachers_isn039t_that_easy_241353.htmlhttp://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2010-09-09-editorial09_ST1_N.htmhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2010-09-09-editorial09_ST1_N.htm 100241353 AM Update A.J. Duffy, USA Today 40435 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:55:08 -0500 09/09/2010/00/00/00 Gov. Chris Christie
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/09/08/gov_christie_responds_to_teacher_claiming_he_lambastes_education.htmlhttp://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/09/08/gov_christie_responds_to_teacher_claiming_he_lambastes_education.htmlhttp://www.realclearpolitics.com/printpage/?url=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/09/08/gov_christie_responds_to_teacher_claiming_he_lambastes_education.html 700241355 AM Update Gov. Chris Christie Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:41:14 -0500 09/09/2010/00/00/00 Debra Saunders, SF Chronicle
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/09/spare_the_quran_and_save_the_woman_107073.htmlhttp://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/09/spare_the_quran_and_save_the_woman_107073.htmlhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/09/spare_the_quran_and_save_the_woman_107073.html 200241345 AM Update Debra Saunders, SF Chronicle Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:16:30 -0500 09/09/2010/00/00/00 Nicholas Kristof, New York Times
This weekend, a Jewish woman who lost her husband in the 9/11 attacks is planning to speak at a mosque in Boston. She will be trying to recruit members of the mosque to join her battle against poverty and illiteracy in Afghanistan. Nicholas D. Kristof Nicholas Kristof addresses reader feedback and posts short takes from his travels.Susan Retik The woman, Susan Retik, has pursued perhaps the most unexpected and inspiring American response to the 9/11 attacks. This anniversary of Sept. 11 feels a little ugly to me, with some planning to...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/09/the_healers_of_911_241348.htmlhttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/09/opinion/09kristof.html?ref=opinionhttp://mobile.nytimes.com/2010/09/09/opinion/09kristof.xml?ref=opinion 100241348 AM Update Nicholas Kristof, New York Times Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:49:04 -0500 09/09/2010/00/00/00 Mike Thomas, Orlando Sentinel
The Rev. Terry Jones was a sad-sack preacher, lucky to draw 50 people to his steel-shed house of prayer, when the words "burn" and "Quran" had an unfortunate collision in his limited brain.That he has become an international phenomenon as a result must be a sign the apocalypse is near.We actually have Gen. David Petraeus, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the White House and even the pope pleading with a hick pastor not to burn books.http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/09/09/media_acts_irresponsibly_on_koran_idiot_241364.htmlhttp://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/os-mike-thomas-quran-burn-090910-20100908,0,5042689.columnhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/os-mike-thomas-quran-burn-090910-20100908,0,5042689.column 100241364 AM Update Mike Thomas, Orlando Sentinel 45317 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:49:17 -0500 09/09/2010/00/00/00 Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune
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