Instahoglets Sunday

By Cernig

- My colleague Jon Perr at C&L has the graphs to show Bush's economic performance is the postwar worst.

- The Pakistani Taliban are on the upswing and the Pakistani military are either unwilling or unable to fight them. I disagree with Joe Klein that it's the latter. These groups may have gone largely rogue from the original ISI plan but that doesn't change the considerable level of tacit sympathy they enjoy from their creators nor the deep connections between them and the ISI via its still-tame terrorist proxies.

- If Andrew Sullivan's on a list of the top 25 liberals, does US conservativism have a serious fringiness problem?

- Iraqi provincial elections - trouble brewing in the Kurdish North.

- "The buck stops here" has mutated into "mistakes were made". The Age of Neo-Remorse.

- Institutionalising crimes against humanity: Israel today ratified a bill promising to shield from international prosecutions any of its soldiers accused of war crimes. They "need to know that they are safe from various tribunals," said Prime Minister Olmert.

- Check out a new blog, The League of Ordinary Gentlemen, featuring 'hoggers pals Kyle Moore from Comments and Marc of Publius Endures. Marc writes: "The idea behind the project is to create a site that is more of a dialogue than a series of posts on various topics, and where each post in a particular series builds upon the last until the topic either wears itself out or we bring the topic to its logical conclusion."

Comments

[Mark]

Thanks for the links, Cernig - we are much obliged to say the least!