links for 2007-04-17

• The Carpetbagger Report: '[McCain's] talking rubbish and he should not get away with it’
  (tags: 20070415 impeach_george_w_bush_now impeachment iraq mccain)
• Knzn: A Lactic Phenomenon: The price of milk is always and everywhere a lactic phenomenon…except when it isn’t. Clearly, if there is a bovine plague that constricts the supply of milk, causing the price to rise, that is indeed a lactic phenomenon. You
  (tags: 20070415 economics monetarism monetary_policy)
• Best...comment...ever. Strange Attractor: Must have been so nice to be a journalist or commentator in the old days. Just lock what you say in print and damn the masses. Times have changed. You can lock the doors, but then there’ll just be you...
  (tags: 20070415 internet journalism journamalism)
• 11D: Sunday Night Journal: Whenever I watch those things, I keep thinking of that scene in Singing In the Rain, where Lena Lamont is being instructed on how to talk, as she tries to make the jump from silent movies to talkies. However, I do enjoy listenin
  (tags: 20070415 video weblogs internet)
• Felix Salmon watches John Cassidy commit journamalism on global warming: Any honest accounting of the effects of global climate change has to be, well, global. And there's simply no way that the benefits to Scarborough can offset the costs to the 900 mill
  (tags: 20070415 journamalism utter_stupidity global_warming climate_change climate)
• TPMmuckraker: Time to indict Senator Domenici: The timeline couldn't be more damning. Sen. Domenici made the now infamous phone call to Iglesias on October 27. According to Iglesias' version of the conversation, Domenici asked him if an indictment would b
  (tags: 20070415 bush corruption politics domenici attorneys justice)
• More Journamalism from Washington Post "Ombudsman" Deborah Howell
  (tags: 20070416 politics Howell journamalism)
• Leah Platt Boustan: My interests are at the intersection of economic history and modern labor and urban economics. World War II and the subsequent decades profoundly shaped the world we live in today. From the baby boom to the rise of female labor force p
  (tags: 20070417 economic_history boustan labor_economics)
• David Obey: Rep. Dave Obey (D-WI) responded on the House floor. “Let me submit to you the problem we have today is not that we didn’t listen enough to people like the Washington Post,” Obey said. “It’s that we listened too much.” Obey conclude
  (tags: 20070417 journamalism iraq impeachment impeach_george_w_bush_now)
• Marty Lederman: I don't think that Gonzales himself did recommend the removal of any U.S. Attorney for an improper reason. I also don't think he acted for any proper reasons, either. It is increasingly plain that he didn't act for much of a reason at all,
  (tags: 20070417 attorneys justice gonzales impeach_george_w_bush_now impeachment)
• Andrew Sullivan: What staggers me about this clip is Bolton's point-blank view that the US had no responsibility to impose order after the invasion, and no responsibility for security within the country. Bolton actually says that the only error Bush reall
  (tags: 20070417 iraq impeach_george_w_bush_now impeachment)
• John J. Sheehan: It would have been a great honor to serve this nation again. But after thoughtful discussions with people both in and outside of this administration, I concluded that the current Washington decision-making process lacks a linkage to a bro
  (tags: 20070416 afghanistan strategy war impeach_george_w_bush_now impeachment)