News That Stays News

Jon Huntsman’s REO Speedwagon Days April 4, 2011

1. In Politico: some oppo on  Huntsman, with a focus on the days in which he jammed with a local band and dropped out of high school.

2. Onion headline: Even Newt Gingrich A Little Depressed By Prospect Of Him Running For President

3. Congo’s dreary and appalling civil war, made clear in a book review in the Times.

4. A reprinted Harper’s piece on America as a nation of frustrated altruists. Analysis of the Right c. 2007 by an anthropologist.

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