Reading Roundup
By Lorie Byrd ~ January 1st, 2006 @ 7:43 pm
Here are a few reads Polipundit readers might enjoy:
As always, Michael Barone’s latest, The Wal-Mart Model, is interesting and informative.
Mark Tapscott reveals a liberal secret regarding traffic congestion.
Good for a laugh is Katrina Vanden Heuvel’s “Fairytales” (my title). Here is a taste:
A year later, the dark and menacing clouds that hovered over The Nation’s November 2, 2004 cover (“Four More Years”) seem to be slowly lifting. Millions of us are organizing, agitating, mobilizing–and there are many hard-fought victories to celebrate.The attempt to destroy Social Security has been successfully blocked, the movement for withdrawal has captured the majority of the public’s support, the mainstream media is slowly rousing from its slumbers, the White House’s surveillance state is being revealed, there is talk of impeachment in the air, Vice President for Torture Cheney suffered a stinging rebuke when John McCain’s torture ban passed, the GOP is mired in corruption and cronyism ( “Jack Abramoff seems to have the whole party on his payroll,”Katha Pollitt writes in her end of year review for The Nation), and scores of local, statewide, and national victories have been won.
And last, but not least, I call this one “Satan Jeans.” Ya just gotta read it now, don’t cha?
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