Steve Verdon takes an indepth look at Jeffrey Sachs proposal to end world poverty and is skeptical of the theory behind it. Me too, but Steve actually has equations to back it up.
Wizbang compares protests in Lebanon to those in America and finds a case where a third world country is much better than us. Oddly enough, it's the one Wizbang post today without a hot babe in it.
Back to economics - Tom Maguire has a lengthy excerpt of Niall Ferguson's outlook for the US dollar and the Asian central banks and finds things are gloomier for them than us, which is something I keep telling my mother when she brings it up as her latest doom and gloom prophecy.
Jenne defends the importance of special education for gifted kids with her own personal story. I can give the other side - the fruit of my loins have stayed engaged because of gifted education.
