late May

May 30, 2008—The Bush administration, owing to a court order, has released a fresh summary of federal and independent research pointing to large, and mainly harmful, impact of human-caused global warning in the US. –NYT A16

--At least 115 soldiers killed themselves, up from 102 the previous year, the Army said Thursday. NYT A11

--Twenty former US attorneys from both political parties sided with Congress and asked a federal judge to settle a subpoena fight with the White House in an inquiry into the dismissals of federal prosecutors. NYT A13

May 29, 2008.—In the past seven years, the US has dropped from 4^th to 15^th among 30 developed nations in the percentage of households that subscribe to broadband internet... WSJ A4

--Gas Prices may Send SUVs Way of Dinosaurs. WSJ D6 –like is this a hot news flash or what?

May 26, 2008—Pat Buchanan was less polite, paraphrasing the social critic Eric Hoffer: “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” NEW YORKER, p. 49

--Ed Rollins: Today, if you’re not rich or Southern or born again, the chances of your being a Republican are not great.—Ibid., 51.

--Last year, writing in The New Republic, Sam Tanenhaus revealed a 1997 memo in which [William] Buckley —who had originally hired [David] Brooks at National Review on the strength of a brilliant undergraduate parody he had written of Buckley—refused to anoint him as his heir because Brooks, a Jew, is not a “believing Christian.” Ibid.,52