Insomniac Reading

Good stuff for the light of day, too!

Ralph Peters, in Condi's Revolution, writes a good editorial about Ms. Rice’s efforts to reform the State Department. I saw her speech, and the Q&A session following Ms. Rice’s speech was just as, if not more so, enlightening as the speech itself. If you’re into this sort of thing (sometimes I assume too much, no?) you can watch the speech on C-SPAN. The title of the video is “Sec. of State Rice on Transformational Diplomacy;” and is the third entry on the page I link to. No direct link is available; I tried.

Michelle Malkin is encouraging folks to submit “alternative” Google logos for their new Google.cn search site. Some pretty cool and creative graphics work!

Tax cuts actually work! Imagine that.

Further on the subject of my “Fratricide” post, Tom Bevan writes in Big Media, Big Problems:

While little more than a nuisance at the moment, the aggressive hostility displayed by hard-left liberals demanding “more balanced” coverage from big media is a potentially ominous sign. The mainstream press, which already leans to the left, can’t afford to lose its appeal to such a core constituency. But lurching further to the left will only alienate more readers and more viewers living between the coasts, significantly impeding the ability of large media outlets to appeal to a broad national audience.

In other words, big media has big problems.

Further discussion at The Claremont Institute’s blog. Excerpt:

If a Tim Russert raises serious questions with liberalism, it could well mean not only that he is an honest man, but that liberalism for him has lost some of its lustre, or some of its spokesmen are seen as less than principled. The hard left's rage is thus not surprising. It smells heresy.

Powerline weighs in, too.

And that's it, for the moment. I'm gonna try and get some sleep!