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  MEDIA BLOG

Sun-Times Media Group Chairman Is Out: Interesting news from the Sun-Times group: Chairman of the Board, Raymond G. H. Seitz, today announced his intention to resign from the Board of Directors effective December 31, 2008, the Company said. ... The Company announced that, acting on the recommendation of the Special Committee, the Company's Board of Directors voted and approved the dissolution of the Special Committee effective immediately. The Special Committee was formed on June 17, 2003 to investigate related-party transactions and other payments made to certain executives of the Company and its controlling stockholder at the time, Hollinger Inc., and to . . . Go

  THE CORNER

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  PLANET GORE

Funding the California-cation of U.S. Energy: I've posted a couple of times about the trouble the "green" energy sector is having accessing financing for their projects. Time for an update, courtesy of today's Wall Street Journal (subscription required) . . . 1. Credit Suisee Group plans to cut part of its carbon-trading desk, writing that "Sluggish economic growth has taken a toll on banks' carbon businesses, as industrial companies are dumping credits that the . . . Go

  THE CAMPAIGN SPOT

Obama's Plan To Address the National Dinner Party Crisis: Over on the homepage, I take a look at Obama's role in a Robert Putnam study, which led to a proposal to try to get every institution in America, public and private, dedicated to building "social capital." Libertarians will probably break out in hives. . . . Go

  DAVID FRUM

Conservatives and Science: This letter arrived in response to my bloggingheads dialogue with Brink Lindsey. Name and affiliation posted with permission of the author: I find it astonishing that conservatives can discuss the election results and their path back to power without addressing the right wing's increasing estrangement from science. Religious conservatives have refused to acknowledge that evolution is the cornerstone of biological sciences and that the earth and universe are billions of years old,  Free market enthusiasts have denied the efficacy and necessity of the Clean Air Act’s protections of the environment and human health.  They have also refused to acknowledge Reagan’s leadership . . . Go

  DAVID CALLING

Ali Salem: The world needs men like Ali Salem. He’s one of Egypt’s most distinguished writers, aged 72, with a long list of books and plays behind him. In every way, intellectually and physically, he’s very big. There is tremendous humour in his face. He’s not afraid to say what he thinks, being an outspoken critic of Islamism and an active campaigner for a real peace with Israel. In 1994 he first visited Israel, and the book he wrote about it was a runaway best-seller. Since then, he’s been to Israel many times, and has received an honorary doctorate there. He keeps . . . Go

  LIBERAL FASCISM

Judis & FDR: From a reader: Dear Jonah,In the Nov. 19 issue of The New Republic, Judis, in a piece entitled "America The Liberal," writes in the second-to-last paragraph that,This is a country ... founded on Lockean liberalism. But, as Roosevelt discovered when he was elected, a national crisis creates popular willingness to entertain dramatic initiatives.This is a popular trope now, as is the litanies of "Let's count the ways Obama is like FDR", etc. But I haven't until now seen it espoused so plainly and baldly. Judis doesn't quite say that in the absence of "real" crises, fake ones must be created for . . . Go