Running late as usual this morning.
- I can't describe how jubilant Dallas-Fort Worth is today. For more than 40 years the Dallas Cowboys have been the dominant team in the Metroplex. Finally, the Texas Rangers have won a playoff game… Playoff series! Congratulations to the Texas Rangers, Nolan Ryan and his amazing organization.
- After what seems like a year, miners are being rescued in Chile. (CNN has a live feed.) Update: 21 rescued and 12 more still underground.
- Judge blocks military from enforcing DADT
- Bobby Cox, the long time manager of the Atlanta Braves, is retiring after this year. The Braves lost to the Giants in a great series. After the game, in what was one of the classiest moves I have seen in a long, long time, the Giants stopped their own celebration and tipped their hats to Bobby Cox.
Great move
From Political Animal:
- Lifting the drilling ban: "The Obama administration on Tuesday lifted the moratorium on deepwater exploratory oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico -- provided companies follow new safety rules.... One of those new rules is that the CEO of a company responsible for a well must certify it has complied with all regulations. That could make the person at the top of the company liable for any future accidents."
- Waiting for the Fed to intervene: "A critical mass of officials at the Federal Reserve appear to favor taking new actions to reinvigorate the lagging recovery in the absence of clear signs of improvement in the economy, according to minutes of the central bank's last policy meeting."
- In Afghanistan, the plan to accelerate training of Afghan security forces is going reasonably well, but "the question now is whether these new forces will allow NATO and the Afghan government to reverse the insurgency's momentum and begin reducing the Western presence in the country."
- As the debate over undisclosed campaign contributions rages on, wouldn't it be nice if major news outlets care more about the fact that Karl Rove seems to be constantly lying?
- As the Washington Post's On Faith section publishes a hateful screed from Tony Perkins on National Coming Out Day, it's easy to imagine Katharine Graham weeping.
- Health Care For America Now has a new video out featuring Jack Black as a professional "Mis-Informant." It's pretty funny, and worth checking out.
- Do college dropouts cost the American taxpayer billions of dollars? Well, sort of.
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Jeff wrote:"Incest and polymagy are not the same thing."They share this in common -- in each case society has decided that they do not fit the definition of marriage. Even if it is heterosexuals.So dont tell me that homosexuals are 'discriminated against' if they cant marry.Your position is logically doomed.
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