Politico:

For the past two years, several hundred left-leaning bloggers, political reporters, magazine writers, policy wonks and academics have talked stories and compared notes in an off-the-record online meeting space called JournoList.
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...it’s hard to trace JList’s influence in the media, because so few JListers are willing to talk on the record about it.
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One byproduct of that secrecy: For all its high-profile membership — which includes Nobel Prize-winning columnist Paul Krugman; staffers from Newsweek, POLITICO, Huffington Post, The New Republic, The Nation and The New Yorker; policy wonks, academics and bloggers such as Klein and Matthew Yglesias — JList itself has received almost no attention from the media.

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ABC News’ Political Punch weblog:

In an interview with Cedar Rapids, Iowa, radio station WMT-AM today, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, said executives of AIG should consider following what he described of the Japanese model of shamed corporate executives: apology or suicide.
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“...the first thing that would make me feel a little bit better towards them [is] if they would follow the Japanese example and come before the American people and take that deep bow and say I’m sorry and then either do one of two things: resign or go commit suicide.”

Grassley added, “In the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology.”

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An oldie-but-goodie, via Meryl:

Couple years ago, some people I worked with finally completed a long-delayed project to build a very large vacuum chamber for testing plasma thrusters and other advanced spacecraft propulsion systems.  Not the biggest in the business, but maybe top ten nationwide.  Big enough to walk around inside, at any rate, which is the important point.

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...sends a letter to the editor.  Along with Dianne Feinstein.

RINOs: Providing cover for the Democrats since forever.

Previously:  The list

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Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!

Just between you, me, and the old, the late middle-aged, and the early middle-aged:  Isn’t it terrific to be able to stick it to the young? I mean, imagine how bad all this economic-type stuff would be if our kids and grandkids hadn’t offered to pick up the tab.

Well, okay, they didn’t exactly “offer” but they did stand around behind Barack Obama at all those campaign rallies helping him look dynamic and telegenic and earnestly chanting hopey-hopey-changey-changey.  And “Yes, we can!”
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Because, as politicians like to say, it’s about “the future of all our children.”  And the future of all our children is that they’ll be paying off the past of all their grandparents. - Mark Steyn

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Oh, wow!

“We’ve insulted are allies, apologised to the Taliban, doubled the national debt, quadrupled the deficit, and killed the national economy in one month.”

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Closing shop:

The Elders of Zion, the venerable and shadowy Jewish organization that controls the international banking industry, news media and Hollywood, has announced that it is disbanding so that members can retire to Florida and live out their golden years on the golf course.

“We had a good run,” said one senior Elder, reminiscing over old photographs of world leaders in his musty, wood-paneled office at an undisclosed location.  “Maybe we ran the world for just a little too long.  Anyway, now it’s Obama’s problem.”

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Cynthia Yockey:

Of all the subjects you take in high school, the only ones where you are likely to be working with the same teacher all four years are band and orchestra.  Because you put your heart into playing a musical instrument maybe a little more than you might into calculating the area of a polygon, your band teacher can make you or break you more than any other.  During my high school years of 1967 to 1971, I was one of the lucky ones.  I played the bassoon and had Raymond J. Dombrowski for band...

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