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Swampland

Another One. Oy.

Ron Kirk, nominated as U.S. Trade Representative in the Obama administration, owes an estimated $10,000 in back taxes. Is the answer here simpler tax laws? Read more

Real Clear Politics

Blame Canada

Apparently, this week is official Israel Apartheid Week on 40 campuses around the world -- a movement that started a few years ago in Toronto Read more

World

The Middle East Blog

Egypt Terrorism: Playing With Fire

Hope to bring you a post-prison interview with freed Egyptian opposition leader Ayman Nour soon, but here's a look at what he told me on the eve of the 2005 presidential election Read more

The China Blog

Winning Christie's Bidder Refuses to Pay

A Chinese collector named Cai Mingchao has come forward, claiming to be the winning bidder of two bronze statues auctioned off last week in Christie's Yves Saint Laurent auction. But, he says, he doesn't plan to pay for them Read more

Business & Technology

The Curious Capitalist

Why the AIG Bailout Just Keeps Getting Bigger

The test case for nationalization, AIG, is demonstrating that it may not be that easy Read more

Nerd World

Dollhouse: It's Not That Bad?

The very fact that Joss Whedon can produce something non-awesome suggests that something has gone terribly, cosmically wrong Read more

Entertainment

Tuned In

Big Love Watch: Send Me Dead Flowers

Let us all now mourn Kathy Marquart Read more

Looking Around

Tele-phony Bids in the Saint Laurent Auction

It turns out that the huge bids for that pair of disputed Chinese bronze animal heads were a ruse to spoil the sale. Read more

Milan

Donatella Versace's Indigo Mood

Everyone has a blue period and for her sharp and chic fall 2009 collection Donatella Versace channeled all shades of blue from turquoise to midnight. Read more

Photos

White House Photo Blog

Secret Service binoculars sit on a ledge covered in snow, next to the front entrance of the White House in Washington.View more

One of the personal tolls for me of this administration is that I've come to be so suspicious of anything religious....What the Bush administration has done to the perceptions and acceptance of science is unconscionable, but they haven't done Christianity any big favors either."

• - Posted by Kathy on Swampland in response to Karen Tumulty's post on "Underplayed Story of the Day"