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Swampland

Al-Qaeda's Inept Insult

The Zawahiri letter is one of the first real indications we have of the new international state of affairs. The terrorists are now exposed as racists, on top of everything else. Read more

Real Clear Politics

How Much Per Vote?

The per-vote breakdown of the candidates' expenditures Read more

World

The Middle East Blog

12,000 Year-Old Woman: The First Jewish Mother?

A chat with the Israeli archeologist who discovered the ancient grave of a woman, swathed in furs, feathers and buried with 50 tortoises. Read more

The China Blog

LIFE Photos from China Now Online

Our bosses have announced a deal with Google to make more than 10 million images from the LIFE Photo Archive available via Google's image search. Read more

Business & Technology

The Curious Capitalist

From TARP to BARF

A reporter asked Dana Perino if maybe she should stop calling the bank bailout the TARP since it no longer was in fact a Troubled Asset Relief Program. Well, Bob Andres has the answer. Read more

Work in Progress

Holiday Party Tips for Dummies

Many of us — particularly in our youth — make some dumb choices, and the holidays seem to bring out our worst. Better to err on the side of fuddy-duddy caution Read more

Nerd World

The New Star Trek Trailer Is Online

My take: this trailer does not suck, but neither does it rule out the possibility of the movie sucking. Read more

Entertainment

Tuned In

The Littlest Miss Sunshine

We want to judge. This is the seeming impetus behind TLC's disturbing, and yet I suspect irresistible, new series concept Read more

Looking Around

Goodbye for Now to the "Wow" Factor?

Will the recession mean that architects will be turning out more buttoned down buildings? Read more

Photos

White House Photo Blog

An honor guard Marine waits at the North Portico entrance of the White House.View more

It's hard to remember back to 1996 but is this about the point in that campaign that they started eating themselves? Is this early for this kind of knifing in the back? For some reason I thought it would wait until after the debacle.

• - Posted by Paul on Swampland in response to Karen Tumulty's post on "Maverick or Rogue"