Get ready for some talking heads to explode.  

Mark Ambinder on current but soon retiring, Chicago mayor Richard Daley's brother William as a serious contender for Obama's Chief of Staff, a post vacated by Rahm Emanuel who is hoping to become Chicago's next mayor.  Just another political trade off within the Chicago machine?

ANY dwindling hope among the supporters of Mikhail Khodorkovsky that the full force of Vladimir Putin's fury would not be brought to bear on the imprisoned oil tycoon ended earlier today, when he and his co-defendant Platon Lebedev received the maximum 14-year prison sentence,,,.

This postscript was added to the article's feed:  (Just in case you missed it, AA :-)

Interested in Putin? You can now view all of the articles The Economist has written about Putin

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Review of Man & Woman: An Inside Story. By Donald Pfaff.

THE trouble with books about the differences between men and women is that the authors are all too often partisan, or perceived to be. Any writer brave enough to take on this subject needs to be meticulous and unflaggingly sceptical in his or her approach.....

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Mr Pfaff is the right man for the job. A neurobiologist at New York’s Rockefeller University, he has worked in the field for nearly half a century, focusing on how hormones affect the brain....

The one that made me break down and cry....

From The Law Office of David E Coombs website:

Politically speaking, America may be the most confused country in the world.  Millions of people in this country are conservatives and even reactionaries who think they are liberals; we have millions more liberals and radicals who call themselves conservative.

It is an unholy mess and it needs to be cleared up.  It’s time for a language intervention.

For all practical purposes, Georgia has had a one party state government most of my life.  The first half or so, the Democratic Party dominated.  That began to change around the time of Reagan.  It was not that Republican candidates defeated Democrats in an election.  Like those in this story, politicians who won office as Democrats just up and swtiched to Republican after election.  It tends to happen in bunches and usually when there is some quid pro quo involved.  As far as I know, no politician has suffered or been punished for swtiching.  In fact, just the opposite.