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• In the End, There Can Only Be One

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 136
  Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann are set to meet for the first time tonight and, with apologies to the latter, I think we all know whos The Kurgan in this scenario and whos the nameless immortal extra about to have her head cut off.  So who does this make The Highlander? Its hardly a dispositive case, but heres ...
  17 hours ago

• Attention All Aspiring Journalists: TNR is Hiring!

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 150
  The New Republic is looking for reporter-researchers for its 2010-2011 program. Job duties include reporting, researching, writing, and fact-checking for TNRs print version and TNR Online; formatting articles and blog posts for the Web; and performing occasional clerical tasks. Reporter-researchers work closely with ...
  18 hours ago

• Health Care Reforms Popularity

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 136
  In my last TRB , I made a point Im surprised hasnt gotten more attention: health care reform isnt actually unpopular. Or, tot he extent that it lacks majority support, its due to significant dissent from the left. Supporters of the Democratic plans plus their liberal critics add up to a majority: For instance, one ...
  20 hours ago

• What would Ron Bloom Say?

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 150
    My eye was drawn to the provocative headline , “Alcoa head says weak dollar is bad for US industry.” How could that be? Aren’t American manufacturing firms being hurt by an overvalued dollar that increases the price of their goods made here relative, say, to imports from China? That may be true, I ...
  22 hours ago

• Americans Express Support For Torture

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 150
  From Pew : Most notably, 19% of the public says the use of torture is often justified to gain important information from terrorist suspects, while 35% say the use of torture in these circumstances is at least sometimes justified. Allahpundit responds, sarcastically : Often/sometimes is up 10 points since Obama ...
  22 hours ago

• WAFCA Speaks

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 150
  The Washington Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) conducted our end-of-the-year awards balloting over the weekend, and the big winner was Up in the Air ,  which took Best Film, Best Actor (George Clooney), and Best Adapted Screenplay. An Education did well, too, with Carey Mulligan taking Best Actress. Its ...
  23 hours ago

• The George W. Bush Presidential Library Is So … Conservative

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 150
  James Gardner, formerly the architecture critic of the New York Sun, now writes on culture for several publications. To put the matter politely, presidential libraries tend not to inspire very good architecture. One generalization that can be made about the twelve libraries already in existence is that they tend ...
  1 day ago

• Sunday Pickings

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 150
  Strangest comment of the day (from Bob Woodward, on Meet the Press ): Woodward : I think the lives of the average Afghan come into play here. How are they living? Whats going on with them? And we are sending our military to protect them. You know what, I mean, that--this isnt an abstraction, it is about our ...
  1 day ago

• I’m Tired Of Watching This Garbage

  
  FanSided — Authority: 589
  Some random thoughts from today’s game.This is becoming really depressing.Josh Freeman forced a lot of passes today, something he hasn’t really done thusfar in his rookie campaign.  You can’t combine poor accuracy with forced throws, or you end up throwing 5 INT’s.Should have run the ball more, it was ...
  1 day ago

• Men Do The Silliest Things

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 150
  Ian Burumas New Yorker piece on the attempts of Dutch liberals to manage Muslim immigration in the Netherlands has one particularly interesting nugget. The piece is not online but Buruma--while narrating some history--notes that relations were relatively smooth until Muslim women began to arrive (previously, men ...
  2 days ago

• Today At TNR (December 5, 2009)

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 150
  Did Missiles Win the Cold War? A Soulless New Book Gets the History Wrong. by Peter Scoblic Three Ways the Copenhagen Summit Could Succeed (or Go Bust) , by Jesse Zwick ‘Up in the Air’: Clooney’s Latest Is Very Good, but What Keeps It From Being Great? by Christopher Orr Why is Bernanke Pandering to ...
  3 days ago

• What Were up Against

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 136
  ABC on Now Zad, a town in Helmand: One area of town is so heavily mined, Marines refer to it as "no leg alley." Since 2005 several Marines have lost limbs there because of small bombs planted apparently not to kill, but to maim. The principle tactic of Taliban forces in the area is to injure at least one Marine ...
  3 days ago

• Weekend Reading, December 4-6

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 150
  -- Martin Amis on Nabokov --Ian Buruma on diarists in Occupation-era France -- Stefan Collini on the journals of T.S. Eliot --Tripti Lahiri on poverty and class warfare in Delhi --And The Onion asks some average Americans about the Swiss minaret controversy  
  3 days ago

• New Offensive in Helmand Province. But Why?

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 150
  Today, the U.S. Marines kicked off a new push against bad guys in Afghanistans fertile and poppy-rich southern province. Per the AP: Gen. David Petraeus says the Marine Corps offensive launched Friday in southern Afghanistan is part of preparations for the arrival of 30,000 new U.S. reinforcements. Petraeus told ...
  3 days ago

• Key To Obamas Popularity: Sucking Up To The Business Elite

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 150
  Ive always had a soft spot for Robert Rubin and the moderate, fiscally-conservative wing of economic officials associated with the Clinton administration. That said, this Wall Street Journal op-ed , by former Clinton deputy Treasury secretary Roger Altman, reads like a left-wingers parody of a moderate Democrat. ...
  3 days ago

• Republicans Are Incumbents, Too!

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 150
  An explosive political scandal in my home state of Georgia serves as a reminder that in state elections in 2010, there are many Republicans who are currently in control of statehouses, and could suffer the vicissitudes associated with malfeasance in office and a surly, wrong-track-dominated electorate.  Georgias ...
  3 days ago

• Bucs vs Panthers Reverse Gameplan

  
  FanSided — Authority: 589
  Sometimes I feel like Raheem Morris reads this website (we know this isn’t true, we’re just pretending now), looks at the Game Previews that I put up, and does the exact opposite.  For this version of the Game Preview, I’m going to go Anti-Gameplan style.We should run the ball under 10 times, as we all [...]
  3 days ago

• Gration Gets Pummeled by Congress

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 150
  Yesterday, Obamas Sudan envoy Scott Gration testified before a House foreign affairs subcommittee. They were not happy with him. Unlike Grations last appearance before Congress—in which Senate committee chairman John Kerry made it clear that he supported the envoy—todays firing line of seven or eight House ...
  3 days ago

• Palin Question of the Day

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 150
  Sam Tanenhaus New Yorker review of Sarah Palins book, as well as another book about the former governor, contains this nugget: Palin, though notoriously ill-travelled outside the United States, did journey far to the first of the four colleges she attended, in Hawaii. She and a friend who went with her lasted only ...
  3 days ago

• A 10 Second iPhone Makeover

  
  Sell Off Music — Authority: 167
  Copyright © 2009 PatrickJ . Visit the original article at http://justanotheriphoneblog.com/wordpress/iphone-software/jailbreak-apps-iphone-software/a-10-second-iphone-makeover/ .      There are quite a few things that I like about the PogoPlank springboard replacement app for the iPhone.  Above all, ...
  4 days ago

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