Is he still having problems? A local lefty blog sees trouble in Ohio.
BLAIR ON CRIME: What do you do when you’re a center-left leader and need to regain popularity? You launch a crackdown on crime. It’s good politics, but the kind of micro-management of society that Blair’s politics represents rubs my libertarian nerves the wrong way. Strange, though, isn’t it, that the Blair-Clinton version of the left – one that shamelessly robs the right of their usual issues (welfare, crime, terrorism) – is so not very obvious in the Kerry-Edwards campaign. The thing I’m looking forward to most next week is a glimpse at how the Kerry campaign wants to pitch the center-left. Clinton/Blair or Dean/Gephardt? Or something, er, straddling all of it?
BLOGGING, JOURNALISM, TRANSPARENCY: Jeff Jarvis was hobnobbing with some major media macherdom in Aspen and, as always, he writes up a razor-sharp account.
WILSONFREUDE: Glenn is reveling in it. And who can blame him? Has anyone as repulsively pompous as Joe Wilson emerged from the D.C. undergrowth in recent years?
ONE FACT: Every now and again, you’re reading the paper, and a sentence obscures the rest of your day. Here was mine yesterday:
France’s prison population is more than 50 percent Muslim.
That’s a stunning statistic, if true. What does it say about France’s ability to integrate immigrants that it has failed so dramatically with Muslims? And what does it say about France’s ability to stand up to Jihadist terror, when they are already sitting on a demographic and social time bomb?
The Dish 