Outfitted with pictures and videos for your viewing pleasure, this may be the most loaded, informative, invigorating and compulsively captivating MRM to date!
– Peggy Noonan articulates many of the thoughts I have had about Sarah Palin and why she was not, and should not be, made into the face of the recovering Republican party.
– The Sotomayor confirmation hearings begin today. Here’s a piece by GMU Law Professor Nelson Lund on Sotomayor and the Second Amendment.
– House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer laughs at the idea that Congressmen should read legislation before voting on it. Maybe he never learned to read and is now engaging in the timeless art of cognitive dissonance?
– A Cornell student makes the news by being part of a giant search team searching for, well, giant things.
– Amidst all the talks of reducing American and Russian nuclear arsenals, we must ask ourselves about the inevitable conclusions of these arms reductions. What is the goal? Are we shooting for “zero”? Former Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger argues that a world without nukes would be much more dangerous than a world with them.
– Politico notes the perennial potency of Bush bashing, six months after he has packed up for Dallas. Does mentioning the “failures” of his administration still galvanize the new majority party, or are Democrats running out of “hope and change” rhetoric?
– This photo appears to show Obama and Sarkozy checking out a junior G-8 delegate. The subsequent video exonerates Obama. No such luck for his French counterpart.
– In the wake of the Bristol Palin and Mark Sanford scandals, here is an interesting composite of the great scandals in recent times and who saw the bright side of each one.
– And what would a great MRM be without bringing the (Kraut)HAMMER?! Sir Charles makes swift and elegant stabs at Obama’s Russian facade.
Our colleagues over at the Stanford Review blog also have a great post/discussion on the issues of disarmament:
http://blog.stanfordreview.org/2009/07/11/toward-a-nuclear-free-world-maybe-not/