Action Point with Cynthia Black 8-12-2007: The Reference Shelf

Today's article and item links:

• IMPEACHMENT: Whose Legacy Is It, Anyway?: By yours truly, on why it matters NOW.

• They'll Call Us Crazy: The Downside of Diversity: A Harvard political scientist finds that diversity hurts civic life. What happens when a liberal scholar unearths an inconvenient truth? Be prepared. This is bound to be the Hot Topick on hawk radio and 'round a few water-coolers.

• From the Silver Lining File: All Rupert, All The Time: Could “5%'ers” eating their own, work this time for us?

• Economy: Why Economists Are Jittery about the Stock Market: On the other hand Wingers will tell you it is going to be fine. And there are WMD in Iraq.

• Local Election Protection: Radical leftist group AZ Advocacy Network stirring up trouble with voter registration: RedState is to conservative blogs what Daily Kos or MyDD is to liberal blogs. Their local wing-nuttiest off-shoot writes in part:

“...Network's goal is to register as many people to vote as possible, in fact they'd love to make voting a requirement, because it would benefit liberals. Since conservatives are more likely than Dems to make the effort to vote on their own initiative, groups like this know the surefire way to pick up more liberal votes is to practically require people to vote, because that drags in the people who don't care - who will vote liberal. "If you rob Peter to pay Paul, you can always count on the support of Paul.”

Just for fun, someone should point out their summarizing quote is attributed to the infamous Irish literary elitist, homosexual Oscar Wilde!