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Saturday, March 08, 2008

A Democratic caucus today in Wyoming to allocate 7 delegates. In Guam, a GOP caucus to allocate six delegates.

An anti-war judge in California rejects the petition of a 17-year-old foster child to enlist in the United States Marine Corps. Prior to WWII, judges routinely sent troubled young men into the military to straighten them out. It was a different country then, of course.

A new national poll from Newsweek magazine shows Clinton and Obama tied. Michael Barone says Clinton has one plausible path to the nomination. Gerard Baker attributes her recent success to the fact that she wants it more than Obama does.

A new report showing a sharp drop in jobs pretty much makes the case that the U.S. economy is in a recession, although this analysis says that the economy hasn't been in such great shape for almost the last ten years. I think we are in a transitional economy, as new technologies alter the landscape. Capitalism is, at its core, creative destruction. Old industries are changing or dying, new industries are being born, and vast populations around the globe are being brought into the modern economic age. Same as it ever was.

Sexual predators in France? I'm shocked, shocked.

One RAF commander has ordered her people to not wear their uniforms in public, causing the editors of The Sun to give her a beat down.

In Israel, fears of a third intifada.

Singapore's long-time leader, Lee Kuan Yew, writes this op-ed in the Washington Post about the cost of retreat in Iraq.

Home-schoolers in California are in shock over a court ruling that, in essence, requires parents get a teaching certificate to educate their children. I imagine the leadership of the state's teachers unions are ecstatic.

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