A long, hot, afternoon doing family-type activities at a suburban “Fest” until the tempers of all were frayed. Here’s the recommended reading:<\/p>\n
Top Billing!:\u00a0 <\/strong>Lexington Green<\/a> – “Let the media do the dirty work.”<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Great call out \u00a0by Lex ! While part of me is aghast at McCain’s Veep choice on the same substantive grounds that cause me to argue that Barack Obama is, aside from being a leftist ideologue,\u00a0totally unqualified to be President,\u00a0I have to acknowledge that in terms of pure politics,\u00a0picking Palin\u00a0was a brilliant move. The reactive frenzy occurring on the Left over Gov. Palin\u00a0is one of pure, running in circles,\u00a0panic. So much so that the Lefty bloggers<\/a> are already\u00a0libeling Palin’s children<\/em><\/strong> <\/a>– sad, despicable and more than a little sick.<\/p>\n Catholicgauze <\/a><\/strong>– “Georgia-Russia War in Cartoon Maps<\/a><\/p>\n Cool\u00a0examples of retro propaganda visuals.<\/p>\n Coming Anarchy<\/strong><\/a> –<\/strong>\u00a0 The Russian Gauntlet is Thrown Down<\/a>,\u00a0 To Punish or rehabilitate Russia?<\/a>, Contemplating Georgia, Part 4<\/a>, Contemplating Georgia, Part 3<\/a>, Contemplating Georgia, Part 2<\/a>, Contemplating Georgia, Part I.<\/a><\/p>\n A fine series and related posts on the wider geopolitical implications of the Russo-Georgian War by the gents at Coming Anarchy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Ideas\u00a0<\/a><\/strong> – “Who is Against Evolution?”<\/a><\/p>\n Libertarian economist David Friedman points out that accepting Darwinian evolution squares poorly with dogmatic acceptance of PC beliefs.<\/p>\n Thomas P.M. Barnett<\/strong> <\/a>– Still deeply but closely divided<\/a><\/p>\n Swedish Meatballs Confidential<\/a><\/strong> – Brewskies for a Georgia Downed<\/a><\/p>\n Secrecy News<\/a><\/strong> – Anxious Governments React to Google Earth<\/a><\/p>\n Russia Blog<\/a><\/strong> – Russia and the West Are Entering the Danger Zone<\/a><\/p>\n Wolf Pangloss<\/a><\/strong> –\u00a0 Appreciating Solzhenitsyn: The 1978 Harvard Graduation\u00a0Speech<\/a><\/p>\n Registan<\/a><\/strong> (Foust<\/strong>) – Coming Clean with Imperfect Information<\/a><\/p>\n An IO post using often bitterly disputed Afghan casualty figures as a crux of the discussiuon. At times, Josh has been known to rattle cages but the discussion he raises here is an important one to be considered. How should USG spokesmen handle such questions that are rife with uncertainty\u00a0yet demand fast response and protection of credibility ? Speed, accuracy, message\u00a0 shaping, credibility and OpSec are variables at odds with one another.<\/p>\n That’s it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A long, hot, afternoon doing family-type activities at a suburban “Fest” until the tempers of all were frayed. Here’s the recommended reading: Top Billing!:\u00a0 Lexington Green – “Let the media do the dirty work.” Great call out \u00a0by Lex ! While part of me is aghast at McCain’s Veep choice on the same substantive grounds […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommended-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/h2>\n