Here’s what we have at the beginning of this truncated week:
- NATO chief: Karzai must crack down on graft (WashPost) — Good call. But can he?
- Church Still Plans to Burn Koran (WashPost) — For more on this, go to this discussion.
- Chicago Mayor Daley Won’t Run for Re-Election (WSJ) — No, not that Mayor Daley. His boy. Still, big political news.
- Pension rallies hit French cities (BBC) — Is there anything more fun than marveling at the sense of entitlement of the French? Those… those cheese-eating retirement monkeys!
- Records show Sheheen’s workers’-comp income (The State) — Small quibble with the subhed, saying the candidates’ incomes is a “major issue” in the campaign. Actually, I don’t even think it’s a captain issue. It’s a first-lieutenant issue, tops. But it is interesting to consider that Sheheen, whom his opponent would like to paint as a worker’s comp fat cat, earned less from that sort of practice in two years than Haley got from Wilbur Smith for her great connections. You know, that income she was reluctant to disclose…
- Costs Of Defensive Medicine May Be Overstated (NPR) — Since we’re short on hard news today (and I thought August was over!), an interesting issue to discuss…
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