Maggie's Farm

Tough Love at the Olin Foundation: Town Hall

A quote:

"Pound for pound, the largest left-leaning foundations outspent the top conservative foundations last year by more than 10 to 1 in a market where grants worth $32 billion were made by foundations managing combined assets of more than $475 billion. The Ford Foundation, for example, sits atop roughly $11 billion worth of assets, while the conservative John M. Olin Foundation - which just spent down its portfolio and closed its doors - never reached so much as $120 million worth of assets under management in a given year. And yet, John J. Miller recently published a book entitled A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America. "

Animal Farm at Dartmouth: Powerline

Greatest threat to our kids: Pens. FMFT

"Repub Nervous Nellies" on Iraq: RWNH

A blogger we have just discovered, or who just discovered Maggie's: Musafir's Musings. Mostly moderate-sounding rational politics (if "rational politics" is not an oxymoron), but I can see that his interests go beyond politics.

Krauthammer on France:

"As the French seem to learn every 70 years, appeasement does not work. It merely whets the appetite. And the angry alien young were already hungry."  Read entire.

Pension Crisis: A dull subject, but one of critical importance to millions of people. AOL News.

PBS distorts history of Crusades. Big surprise there. View from 1776