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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Friday, January 30, 2009

Quickhits

(NYTimes) North Korea scraps all deals with South Korea.

(AP) The Iraqi provincial elections are tomorrow, and the Iraqis have put in a curfew and vehicle ban in Mosul, one of the hotspots between the Kurds and Arabs.

The RNC chair voting is today. (No curfews or vehicle bans.)

(BBC) Mid east envoy George Mitchell sits down with Likud, officially the opposition party, but expected to win the next elections.

(USAToday) Biden tries to outline his "middle class task force" brief. (It really sounds like he's been pushed outside.)

(WaPo) A bit more on India shaving Kashmir from Holbrooke's brief.

(TomToles) A bipartisanship cartoon.

(AP) Exxon posts record profits, $45.2 billion for 2008.

And, (AP) the US economy fell at an annualized rate of 3.8% in the 4Q. (Far better than the -5% or -6% many have predicted, but the government numbers are often a little high.)

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