links for 2007-08-08 Max Sawicky: The Congressional Budget Office reports that over five million children who lack health insurance coverage would be eligible for the Federally-supported State Childrrens Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Shocking though it may seem, the White Henry Farrell sends us to Marty Lederman on Jane Mayer’s extraordinary – and horrible – New Yorker story on the routinization of torture in CIA ‘black sites’ (I suspect he’s also writing on the basis of his own sources here). Mesa Verde Peoples Edward Luttwak praises Jeane Kirkpatrick as the Only True Neocon Matthew Yglesias: Another classic "me or your lying eyes" moment as George W. Bush decides to contradicts Afghan President Hamid Karzai on the question of Iran's role in Afghanistan. Karzai, who only lives in Afghanistan and runs its government, calls Ira Second Indochina War (1960-75): 3,500,000 Cosma Shalizi: In Case You Were Feeling Too Cheerful Tom Quiggin: National Security Intelligence William Rosen: Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe D.C. Boulger: China: Chapter XXIII, The Reign of Kwangsu Tobias Haist and Wolfgang Osten: An Optical Solution For The Traveling Salesman Problem Jay Rosen: Why Do We Suck? and Other Questions Political Journalists Asked Themselves at YearlyKos
