DAILY READS

• Poll: Get Ready for Massive Political Upheaval in Washington
• Orszag Calls for Extending, Then Ending, Bush Tax Cuts
• Pork to Save His Bacon: Obama Unveils New $50 Billion Infrastructure Plan
• GOP Young Guns Looking to Drive Debate
• Do We Have a Higher Education Bubble?
• Obama’s Continued Economic Missteps
• Blair’s Gift to Cameron: A Guide to Leadership
• College Football Season Kickoff
• China’s Credit Rater Downgrades US
• Democrats Losing Youth Vote

MARKETS & POLICY

• Looks Like a Major Currency Move is Underway
• Rock, Meet Hard Place
• Peter Orszag is Not an Economist
• Globalism and the Death of Cash
• Does Obama Have Any Answer for Unemployment?
• Critiquing Newt Gingrich’s Economic Policy
• The Troubles that Rich People Have
• Bernanke and Words that Speak Louder than Action
• Did You Enjoy Recovery Summer?
• Bill Gross and Mortgage Rates

The WHIP

• Lisa Murkowski Set to Launch Write-in Campaign
• Trapped in the Medicaid Ghetto
• Who Are the Tea Partiers?
• Labor Day and Union Bloat
• American Taliban vs. Liberal Fascism: No Comparison
• Barack Obama is Losing Time
• If Sarah Palin Runs in 2012, Who Benefits?
• Bi-Party Charlie Crist, Has Stiff Support of the Porn Industry
• Welcome to Obama’s Oval Office
• Glenn Beck and Public Life

HEGEMON

• Gideon Levy and Uncomfortable Truths
• A Second Great White Fleet
• Sino Subversion
• The Desperation Summit
• The Return of Tony Blair
• The Greatest Collection of Nightmares on Earth
• A Forgettable Speech
• Tony Judt and Israel
• North Korea and South Africa: A Study in Hypocrisy
• Noa Tishby and the World

CHEQUER BOARD

• Executive War Powers and Limited Government
• Who Woulda Thunk It?
• Inconvenient Truths
• NAACP, Left Create Tea Party Attack Site
• Pure Stupidity
• From the Department of Non-Surprise
• A New and Valuable National Security Law Site
• The Non-Music Man
• How Jane Mayer Screwed the Pooch in Reporting on the Kochs
• On Bad Blog Post Titles