El Somnambulo digs up the good stuff so that you don’t have to:
President Obama proposes outreach to the Taliban in a wide-ranging NYTimes interview:
Mr. Obama pointed to the success in peeling Iraqi insurgents away from more hard-core elements of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, a strategy that many credit as much as the increase of American forces with turning the war around in the last two years. “There may be some comparable opportunities in Afghanistan and in the Pakistani region,” he said, while cautioning that solutions in Afghanistan will be complicated.
The Chicago Tribune profiles Barack Obama’s 27-year-old chief speechwriter Jon Favreau. Bulo hates him!
The 30-something generation, formerly Generation X, suffering the most from the economic downturn, according to the Boston Globe.
The Christian Science Monitor poses the question and possible answer as to whether greenhouse gases can actually be removed from the atmosphere. Fascinating. Paging Tommywonk…
Dog Bites Man. From the LATimes, Donald Trump rips off wealthy investors on Baja California project. As Trump and Jim Cramer prove, it’s OK to be a crook as long as you’re on TV and you’re charismatic. Come to think of it, that defines TV evangelists as well.
Finally, more on those Luzerne County judges who victimized hundreds of juveniles adjudicated for bogus offenses by sending them to privately-run detention centers run by a company that provided millions in kickbacks to the judges. If this piece from today’s Philadelphia Inquirer doesn’t make you both sad and angry, you might want to look elsewhere for your news and opinion.