– Welcome Freshmen! If you’re feeling right in your mind, be sure to check out the Cornell Review at Club Fest! A couple of Review representatives will be visiting Freshmen on North Campus this evening.
– In case you saw/heard all those fire sirens on Saturday night, they were responding to a broken water pipe at Sigma Nu. While inspecting the house for water damages, they discovered a small weed-growing operation.
– Via Bilmes, Cornell Professor Robert H. Frank defends Obama’s stimulus plan and actually says that we need “more stimulus now, not less.” He argues that new stimulus funds must be appropriated to offset cuts in state and local government spending. I don’t disagree with some of his arguments, but I ask why this state/local government assistance wasn’t an essential part of the originally appropriated funds, of which only a fraction have been spent?
– Conservative icon and syndicated columnist Bob Novak passed away last Tuesday. From the linked article by Larry Kudlow: “He was both a conservative icon in terms of his unswerving political beliefs, and a journalistic icon in terms of his unyielding tradecraft.”
– Rose Friedman, economist and wife of Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman, also died earlier this week.
– As American focus shifts from Iraq to Afghanistan, will the country continue to be the “graveyard of empires”? David Peter examines whether Afghanistan will eventually become Obama’s Vietnam.
