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Salon has started a 2004 Presidential campaign weblog. The Columbia Journalism Review has a campaign weblog focused on criticizing campaign coverage from other media outlets.

Following up, it seems, on the Business 2.0 item on space exploration yesterday, the Washington Post reports on who gets paid if Bush’s new space exploration initiative gets funded.

Donkey Rising has some interesting poll numbers to report in the run up to what I hope is Bush’s last State of the Union address.

Business 2.0 says that the new space initiative that President Bush announced is just a fancy jobs program.

Brad DeLong is reading The Price of Loyalty, Ron Suskind’s book that’s based largely on things Paul O’Neill told him, and pulling out the best bits and posting them on his weblog.

The Business 2.0 weblog has a bit on the pricing of the iPod Mini. Regardless of how much I’m willing to pay, the new iPod is priced at the same level as its competitors.

It probably seems like I link to more anti-Howard Dean articles than pro-Howard Dean articles, but really it’s because I understand Dean’s strength’s pretty well and I’m more interested in his weaknesses. Yesterday William Saletan wrote an article discussing Dean’s strengths and his two biggest weaknesses. I have to say, I don’t understand Dean’s continued insistence that all Bush tax cuts must be repealed. It may or may not be the right thing to do, but the position is clearly a loser. Someone famous once said “politics is the art of the possible.” Even if dropping all of the Bush tax cuts is the right thing to do economically, demanding it is a recipe for four more years of George W Bush, and he is certainly not going to repeal all of his tax cuts. There’s also a good chance that Dean would be working with Republicans in both houses of Congress. They aren’t going to repeal all of the tax cuts that they already enacted either. It’s not as though Howard Dean is somehow above pandering. He panders. So, Howard Dean, pander a bit more where it makes sense and put yourself in a position to win if you’re going to be the nominee. Update: I think that many of Howard Dean’s so-called gaffes aren’t really gaffes. But I read that yesterday, Howard Dean said this: ...

Kuro5hin has an article about Apache’s taking a huge chunk of market share away from Microsoft IIS in 2003 based on the Netcraft survey. Unfortunately, the article doesn’t mention at all that a huge factor in the market share percentages is the Web server chosen by domain name parking companies, and that some biggies switched to Apache this year, as noted here last November.

Brad DeLong has an interesting post on Paul O’Neill. Oh, and here’s a little something to get you red in the face.

Slate is running a dialog this week among big name liberal hawks, asking them to consider their support for invading Iraq in retrospect. Update: this dialog is turning out to be really fascinating. I strongly encourage you to read it.