I was the only blogger on the Internet without a blog post dedicated to this issue, so I thought I would chime in. It’s an incredible, joyous event that most have all wrong.

My favorite quote from this revolution came from TechCrunch:

Twitter and Facebook are indeed useful tools, but they are not tools of revolution — at least, no more than Paul Revere’s horse was. People are the tools of revolution, whether their dissent is spread by whisper, by letter, by Facebook, or by some means we haven’t yet imagined. What we, and the Egyptians, should justly be proud of, is not just those qualities which set Egypt’s revolution apart from the last hundred, but those which are fundamental to all of them.

That part where he says “by some means we haven’t yet imagined”… that gives us Internet/gadget junkies tingles.

Condoleezza Rice (for many reasons that can be detailed in a slew of blog posts) is one of my favorite people in the political realm.

NPR posted a 7 minute conversation with her, and this awesome photo from the White House during a family trip to Washington, D.C.

These lists, while not surprising for the most part, made me laugh. Evidently the way to unify America is through cooking and home decor.

I couldn’t help but laugh even haerder when I realized that I visit 5 of the 9 Liberal sites each day, yet only 3 of the 11 Conservative sites. This, liberals, is the definition of open minded. (Never tell me I don’t make a concerted effort to understand your often confusing and self-conflicting views.)

Liberal

DailyKos.com
New York Magazine
Economist
RollingStone.com
Talking Points Memo
RachaelRay.com
HuffingtonPost.com
NPR.org
MarthaStewart.com

Conservative

RushLimbaugh.com
Breitbart.com
FinancialTimes.com
GlennBeck.com
Military.com
Politico.com
CBSSports.com
FoxNews.com
BBC.com
RachaelRay.com
MarthaStewart.com

Should you use it around your friends, feel free to claim it as you own.

(Just in case you need explanation)

“Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.”

- Ronald Reagan

A round up of articles from Steve Forbes’ visit to Mississippi College this week.

If he only knew who he was emailing.

Take a deep breath. Things might not be as bad as you and your colleagues at the water cooler were discussing this morning.

A nice little interactive chart on NYT.

And one more thing: if you’re rich, you’re gonna pay more taxes. The Democrats are in charge, so penalizing people for achieving the American Dream is something they thoroughly enjoy doing.

No way this was cool. Doesn’t matter where you stand politically.

I love and loathe so much about both of these guys, but it’s nice to see them one-on-one.

Stewart was overly subservient, therefore his short quip at the end - while powerful - seems more like parting word after an argument with some guy at a bar.

“Here’s what Fox has done, through their cyclonic perpetual emotional machine that is 24 hours a day, 7 days a week: They have taken reasonable concerns about this president and this economy and turned it into full-fledged panic attack about the next coming of Chairman Mao.”

State Of The Union drinking game for each of the following words/phrases: “Healthcare” (1 drink), “Massachusetts” (2 drinks), if he blames “The former administration.” (3 drinks), “President-elect Palin” (20 drinks), “Hope” (0 drinks… even Obama has lost ‘hope’ in Obama).

The most influential US conservatives.
The most influential US liberals.

This is good…

12. George W. Bush
In 2007, George W. Bush just missed our Top 20 top conservatives list – a provocative and controversial decision but one that reflected his disastrous poll ratings, the dismay of conservatives at out-of-control spending, the colossal mistakes over Iraq and his failure to consolidate the conservative majority he had won. Aides protested that history would vindicate him and already there are signs that this is happening. The Iraq “surge” of 2007 unquestionably won the war and has helped establish a viable democratic state in the heart of the Middle East. There were terrible errors committed along the way but Bush showed the vision and toughness to change course and commit American blood and treasure when all appeared lost.

Bush’s influence endures also because Obama and his advisers seem scarcely able to do anything without referring to his predecessor. This betrays a shallowness that is beginning to wear thin with American voters. With the recent terrorist attacks, Bush’s relentless focus on Islamist terrorism now looks wise rather than obsessive and he bequeathed Obama one of the most impressive members of the current Cabinet – Bob Gates. Bush’s absence from the limelight and his refusal to criticise Obama even through surrogates is to be commended. So too was his personal insistence that led to the transition between the two administrations being one of the smoothest in American history.

The Obameter: Tracking Obama’s Campaign Promises

ARTICLE: For First Time, Voters Split Over Who They Want in Control After 2010 Elections, and Obama’s Approval Rating Falls Below 50%

I’m not saying. I’m just saying.

One of the problems with governance since the election of Bill Clinton has been the resolute refusal of the opposition party (the GOP from 1993 to 2001, the Democrats from 2001 to 2009, and now the GOP again in the Obama years) to concede that the president, by virtue of his victory, has a mandate to take the country in a given direction. A Cheney victory would mean that America preferred a vigorous unilateralism to President Obama’s unapologetic multilateralism, and vice versa.