links for 2007-06-14 NOSJOURNAAL - Wat gebeurde er met Bush' horloge? Muhammad al-Mahdi Brad Setser: Inflationary real adjustment in China? Ron Fournier: Don't give equal weight to spin. Just because a public official says it doesn't mean you need to put it in your story or give his claim equal billing to what you know to be true. We have an obligation to write factual and fair stories, but w Daniel Cohen: Let us start with a paradox: the Left is better in office than in the opposition. Despite a programme on ideology (the nationalisations in 1981 and the 35-hour work week in 1997), the Left in power demonstrated solid pragmatism. It was the L Brian Beutler: Almost daily Corner bashing: Does anybody else think it's bizarre that, in the middle of making the case against the whole public school system, [Mark Steyn has] pointed out the fact that [European] state-run schools can be run successfull Haggai Elitzur: Where I read dozens of pages of forty-year-old Congressional transcripts so YOU don't have to - American Footprints Christopher Hayes: Watch Update: it’s also pretty awesome that while he’s glad-handling he’s thinking “I bet you one of these Albanians is going to try to take my watch.” Julian Dibbell: The Life of the Chinese Gold Farmer
