Larwyn's Link Kerplosion: Prolonging the Depression

Economists: FDR prolonged Depression by 7 years: UCLA
US on the precipice: Seeking Alpha
CNN fail: Little Green Footballs

Cause and Effect: High Plains Blogger
Fake CNN site hides to Trojan: CNet News
Nielsen starts off 2009 with a cluster****: MediaDaily

40 most obnoxious quotes of 2008: Right Wing News
Open source is liberal? Nah.: CNet (Matt Asay)
NBC's David Gregory stands tall: NewsBusters

Beat Andrew Sullivan in the Weblog Awards: Hot Air
Europe out of control: extremists rampage: Neocon Express
CNN busted running phony Gaza propaganda, doesn't fess up: American Thinker

Hamas rigs entire neighborhood with explosive devices: Jawa Report
USSR's role in the Middle East goes down the memory hole: Volokh Conspiracy
NBC's Andrea Mitchell calls for censorship of blogs: Evil Conservative

War Crimes: Power Line:

[A] video, posted by the IDF on its YouTube channel earlier today, shows how Hamas will position a rocket or (in this case) mortar launcher within a few feet of a school, not because school grounds are somehow ideal locations from which to fire ordnance, but in hopes of causing civilian casualties...

One wonders, too, what was going on at the UN-run school. Why were dozens or hundreds of children present? Is the UN unaware that Gaza is a war zone? Schools have been closed in Israeli towns that are subject to Palestinian rocket attacks. Why on earth would the UN, or whoever, be assembling students in a location where they can easily be turned into "martyrs" by Hamas? Were classes really being conducted in this alleged school, in the middle of a bombardment? There is a story here, waiting to be told.

That story will have to wait. Pinchie, Andrea Mitchell, Chris Matthews and their ilk have devoted all of their resources to investigating Trig Palin's lineage and Joe the Plumber's prostate exam results.