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Don Surber covers Tennis. AJ Strata covers hardball.

Mark puts girl scout cookies to the taste test.

McQ runs with a great idea: benchmark government.
My addition: benchmark foreign aid (althought I now that answer to that one - it makes things worse).
My outside the box: benchmark pundits. Include both accuracy of claimed facts, how often they leave out info that conflicts with their claim, and how often their prognostications are correct.

David Adesnik at Oxblog looks at an exchange between Mike Huckabee and Tim Russert to examine the intersection of politics and religion, and then asks a great question:
"In contrast, advocates of separation faith from policy have to answer the question that conservatives love to ask: Was it wrong for Martin Luther King Jr. to draw on his Christian faith to inspire the civil rights movement?"

Caroline Glick notices that the Palestinian state already exists, and it "is a terror state and an economic basket case fully funded by the international community." See that note above about how foreign aid leaves recipient worse off. Speaking of thinking outside the box, maybe we should focus on actually improving one of the existing states of the two state solution and lay off trying to force the other state to cough up more territory. Just a thought.

Eamonn Fitzgerald reports on John Naisbitt's views on, among other things, global warming and newspapers. Naturally, we like them because they coincide with ours.

Patterico looks at evidence that prison doesn't deter crime and discovers that by careful design of a study to select just the right sample group you can prove anything you want.