What about the people?
NPR-…The Democratic Party leader, Yukio Hatoyama, signaled some of his party’s planned changes in international economic policy in a commentary Thursday in The New York Times. Hatoyama denounced what he called “market fundamentalism in a U.S.-led movement that is more usually called globalization.”
Hatoyama argued that globalization ignores human dignity, and said his [...]

HUH?
AJC-..On Thursday, responding to a strongly worded memo calling for city voters to elect a black mayor, each of the three top candidates responded by either downplaying race or tackling it head on.
The memo notes that for the first time since 1974, “African Americans could lose the mayoral seat in Atlanta, Georgia, [...]

Is it time?
WSJ-After nearly eight long years, we seem to be no closer to the end of the war in Afghanistan. In fact, given the current buildup of U.S. troops and the possibility that even more may be deploying soon, many Americans, and many Afghans, wonder what we hope to achieve—and when our service members [...]

HUH & WHY?
Politico-Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), who considered himself the late Sen. Ted Kennedy’s best Republican friend in the Senate, suggested on Sunday that Kennedy’s widow, Vicki, could serve as an interim successor to her husband.
“I think Vicki ought to be considered,” Hatch said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “She’s [...]

What will happen?
WP-The founder of Blackwater USA deliberately caused the deaths of innocent civilians in a series of shootings in Iraq, attorneys for Iraqis suing the security contractor told a federal judge Friday.
The attorneys singled out Erik Prince, a former Navy SEAL who is the company’s owner, for blame in the deaths of more [...]

What do you think?
NPR-Past efforts to overhaul the nation’s health care system had different proponents, different opponents and different plans that were under consideration. But they have two things in common: They all ended in failure, and in every case, opponents used fear as a key weapon in their arsenal.
So Jonathan Oberlander, a political [...]

ALL SHOULD READ!
AJC-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger blasted members of the state Assembly Wednesday for lacking “the guts” to enact sweeping changes to California sentencing laws.
The Republican governor said lawmakers were willing to cut $10 billion from education but are reluctant to trim just $1.2 billion from prisons.
“They don’t have the guts to go out [...]

Will this hurt his run for Governor?
AJC-…CREW’s complaint contends Deal “may have committed a federal crime by using his positions and congressional resources to engage in self-dealing, thereby depriving his constituents of his honest services.”
The AJC reported Sunday that Deal, a 2010 Republican candidate for governor, pressed state leaders, including Revenue Commissioner Bart Graham, [...]

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Bob Barr is right!
AJC-No good deed goes unpunished — that’s a lesson George Boggs of Fayetteville, North Carolina, learned earlier this month when he voluntarily turned his handgun over to the local police for safe-keeping while he went into the hospital following an automobile wreck. When Mr. Boggs (who maintains a valid concealed-carry permit [...]

Pornography or art?
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How Should the legal system deal with child sex offenders? Should we even ever let them out of prison?
CNN-An 11-year-old California girl snatched from the street in front of her house in 1991 had two children with the man accused of taking her and was forced along with the children to live in backyard [...]

Is it not time?
NYDN-Gov. Mark Sanford today ignored calls for his resignation by his lieutenant governor during a press conference.
“I’m not going to railroaded out of this office by political opponents or folks who were never fans of mine in the first place,” he said at a news conference.
Earlier, Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer promised to [...]