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- Ed Kilgore asks whether the coming Republican wave isn't just a "reversion to the norm" for the House. The question is what the "norm" is. In the past 15 years, the House has been largely controlled by Republicans. But prior to 1994, the House was in Democratic hands for nearly half a century. Is the norm then some rough 50/50 split or should we look at the PVI of every congressional district to create some sort of abstract model of what the norm is?
- Read Adam on the strange reverse white guilt behind the state of Virginia's decision to invent black support for the Confederacy in one of its textbooks; I have a simple question about this never-ending desire to whitewash the history of this rebellion over the right to enslave other human beings: What exactly is the endgame here? Is a new and improved Confederacy coming back? Is slavery coming back? Is this just a way of naming more highways after traitors? I'm a simple West Coast Liberal -- help me out, please.
- Robert Kiyosaki writes the sort of financial independence/self-help books one finds at your finer airport bookstore. He also writes columns for Yahoo! Finance, like this one, "The Rise and Fall of America." You see, our democracy is now threatened by dependence on government, and soon we will be in a state of bondage, with our Chinese overlords cracking the whip. There isn't much in the piece about policy, just vague calls to give our children a "sophisticated financial education" and "train students to be entrepreneurs who export to the world." Apparently in Kiyosaki's world, the government would have absolutely no role in these endeavors.
- Remainders: The government is turning a tidy profit on TARP; I wish the Obama people would worry less about feeding the paranoid fantasies of his unhinged critics; and a reminder of the awfulness of cable news, even on the "liberal" networks.
--Mori Dinauer
