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The View From Your Recession, Ctd

A reader writes:

I work for the Texas Workforce Commission and am familiar with a few other state's eligibility requirements for unemployment benefits. Based on what your reader said, she may be eligible for UI benefits. Just because her work was "project based" does not automatically render her ineligible. I don't know what state she lives in, but it wouldn't render her ineligible in Texas and many other states. In Texas, if someone is hired for a definite period, and the work ends as...

What A Palin Endorsement Can Do, Ctd

Ambinder wants more data:

Logically, onecannot connect any appreciable drop in Ayotte's numbers to one thingthat happened so recently; this is the post hoc ergo propter hocfallacy. PPP covers themselves by modifiers, as in, "Palin'sendorsement may well be playing a role in this." Maybe. The pollsuggests that most independents -- those famous New Hampshire independents,that 50 percent of New Hampshire voters -- are less willing to vote for acandidate who gets the support of Sarah Palin. That's...

The Daily Wrap

Today on the Dish, Cameron had stern words for Israel, Bagehot found him tone deaf, Larison joined the debate over the country's usefulness for the US, and Roger Cohen reminded us about the American who was killed on the flotilla. Optimistic Iran update here. And things looked up for Obama.

More Wikileaks coverage here, here, and here. Gingrich got scarier. Christianism alert here. Elizabeth Warren commentary here and here. Andrew called out the neocons over a Palestinian state, took a hard...

WikiLeaks, WMDs, And Iran

Lynch connects them:

This use of the WikiLeaks documents brings back some old memories, of along time ago (March 2006) in a galaxy far far away when the Pentagonposted a a.Analysts dived into them, mostly searching for a smoking gun on IraqiWMD or ties to al-Qaeda. The right-wing blogs and magazines ran with aseries of breathless announcements that something had been foundproving one case or another. Each finding would...

Face Of The Day

Sheep graze close to electricity generating wind turbines as a rainbow
is seen in the background on July, 26 2010 near the northern German
town of Husum. By Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images.

Electricity generation - Wind turbine - Business - Husum - Renewable

The GOP Majority

Ezra Klein wonders how Obama will respond if Republicans take back the House and Senate:

If they just take back the House, Obama can't anger Senate Democrats byshifting his agenda too dramatically. That's a world of gridlock. Butif Republicans manage to grab both houses of Congress -- unlikely, Iknow -- Obama will face the same choice that Bush and Clinton did: Doeshe transform his agenda into something he can work with Republicans toachieve, as Clinton did? Tax reform could fit here, or if...

All Politics Is Local, Even In France

Bagehot finds Cameron's championing EU membership for Turkey tone deaf to the politics of various EU countries:

In Germany...it is a big deal that if Turkey did achievemembership in 2025, say, it is projected to have a larger populationthan any other EU country. That would give Turkey, overnight, thelargest delegation of members of the European Parliament. Thatprofoundly shocks Germans, who take the EP rather seriously. InBritain, many people could not care less if a delegation of...

Chart Of The Day

From TNR's symposium on Afghanistan.

Asia - Business and Economy - Government - United States - Bank of England

Didn't We Know All This Already? Ctd

Andrew Exum yawns at Wikileaks's latest in today's NYT. Kevin Sullivan perks up:

Exum would have us all believe that the WikiLeaks disclosures are both ho-hum andirresponsible journalism. Both may be true, but if there's been anykind of journalistic failure here it began not with WikiLeaks, but withthe pundits and policy makers who have failed to enhance publicunderstanding of the war. There was no need for such debate andeducation however, because a bipartisan consensus had already...