Nota Bene: Today’s Reading Assignment

• What a way to run the world — The Economist
• Crossing the Great Divide — Ronald Brownstein, National Journal
• The Founding Mudslingers – Edward Larson, Washington Post
• ‘Patriot Games’ of the wrong kind — Michael Tackett, The Swamp
• Why Barack Obama may be lonely in 2009 — Doug Saunders, Toronto Globe and Mail
• Canada just became a utopia for U.S. military deserters — Jonathan Kay, National Post (Toronto)
• Hooray for Uribe — Michael Moynihan, Reason Magazine
• Teaching Baseball as a Second Language in China — Juliet Macur, New York Times
• Obama’s Odds — Charlie Cook, National Journal 
• A Sexual Revolution — Jennifer Fulwiler, America: The National Catholic Weekly
• The Free Trade Heretic — David Sirota, In These Times
• Colombia’s hostage triumph — The Economist
• When McCain Was in Charge — Bill Adair, CQ Politics
• The Real Infrastructure Crisis — Burt Solomon, National Journal
• Party in Search of a Notion — Michael Tomasky, The American Prospect
• “Stuff White People Like” — Christian Lander, Salon Magazine
• Of sommeliers and stomachs — The Economist
• Trouble Brewing for Craft Beer Makers – Ben Levisohn, Business Week
• Previous July 4 polls promising for Obama — David Paul Kuhn, The Politico
• Bachelorhood And Its Discontents — Christopher Orlet, New English Review
• Harris County neighborhoods that can pay get more sheriff’s patrols — Liz Austin Peterson, Houston Chronicle
• More Mexicans leaving U.S. under duress — Ocatavio Rivera Lopez, Dallas Morning News