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Jib Jab's Second Term
Check out "Second Term," from the creators of "Good to be in D.C." and "This Land." This latest cartoon pokes fun at President Bush, conservatives, liberals, and just about anyone else vying for political power.

Time
Justice Scalia: The Charm Offensive
The Supreme Court Justice is vying for the chief's seat on the bench

Choosing a chairman
by George Will
Having had their fill of post-election introspection, the 447 Democratic Party luminaries who on Feb. 12 will elect their new chairman surely now yearn for stronger wine and madder music.

W. Post
Secret Unit Expands Defense Chief's Domain
Pentagon encroaches on CIA's turf with new espionage arm, reinterprets law to broaden Rumsfeld's powers abroad.
Some Question New Unit's Leader

Gender Fender-Bender
Feminist complainers, not Larry Summers, owe women an apology.
by Ruth Wisse

Oil for Influence
A U.S. citizen pleads guilty to being an agent of Saddam Hussein.

W. Post
Crash Course in Leadership
U.S. advisers are working intensely with Iraqi forces in effort to develop a lasting security force.

LA Times
Reinventing Campus Socializing
Thefacebook.com has become an obsessive must-view hub for hundreds of students.

LA Times
Palestinian Police Face the Enemy Within
Security services are riddled with rivalries and disorganization.

NY Times Magazine
The Punk-Christian Son of a Preacher Man
His parents, Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, had one of the most spectacular falls in the history of the evangelical church. Now Jay Bakker is building his own kind of ministry, preaching to rockers and tattooed skaters who feel as lost as he has.

W. Times
Kerry seeking role in spotlight
Sen. John Kerry searched for his new place in the political landscape as his rival took the oath of office for a second term as president.

W. Times
Faithful standing more firm, poll says
Churchgoing Americans grew less patient in the past four years with politicians making compromises on such issues as abortion and homosexual rights, according to a survey released yesterday.

W. Post Magazine
See no Bias
Many Americans believe they are not prejudiced. Now a new test provides powerful evidence that a majority of us really are. Assuming we accept the results, what can we do about it?

The Feminine Mistake
Looking for a line women fall for? Try the psychic hotline
by Gene Weingarten
Some of America's most accomplished literary figures were present at the recent national book fair in Miami. But the longest line of people I witnessed was there to obtain the autograph of a highly distinguished, world-renowned, fabulously successful quack.

LA Times Magazine
Swagland
by David Weddle
Where the writers are gluttons, the editors practice ethical relativism and the flacks just want to get their clients some ink

Reuters
'Braveheart' Becomes Role Model for Christian Men
Movies like "Braveheart" and "Legends of the Fall" are on the viewing list for men in a growing Christian movement that calls for them to throw off their "nice guy" personas and emulate warriors.

Newsweek
Hi! The Net Is Calling.
The technology to send voices over data lines is revolutionizing the telephone industry—and, for now, the leader is Vonage.

HughHewitt.com
Some Key Links on and for Godbloggers

The Weekly Standard
Terry Eastland on Hugh Hewitt's "Blog"
Blog: Understanding the Information Reformation That's Changing Your World: Why You Must Know How the Blogosphere Is Smashing the Old Media Monopoly and Giving Individuals Power in the Marketplace of Ideas by Hugh Hewitt (Nelson, 225 pp., $19.99).
Maybe someone will go after me on grounds of conflict of interest for writing about this little volume. So I'll confess to having been a friend of Hugh Hewitt's for more than twenty years, since he clerked on the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C.
Since I knew Hugh years before he became hughhewitt.com, I can testify that back in the old days Hugh read big books, and naps were not unusual. He had a toe or two in the media, but his big media gig was in the slow lane of a public television show in Los Angeles.
Now I can't think of Hugh without thinking of speed, for speed it is--speed at the keyboard--that you need to make an impact as a blogger, which Hugh became three years ago. Hugh still has much else to do: He's got a radio talk show, still practices law, teaches in law school, and writes weekly columns (including for us, at weeklystandard.com). But it's in the blogosphere (explained in Blog) that Hugh has hit his most rapid stride, for there he posts as fast as news breaks.
Blog has the longest subtitle I've seen in a while, at least for a book published in a recent century, but it's all true to the book. For Blog
is about the impact of the blogosphere upon the old news media. More broadly, it is about how "every single information hierarchy is under siege." It becomes a book for business executives, pastors--just about everyone, since all of us require information of one kind or another. Not surprisingly, one way to help yourself in this new era, Hugh says, is to become a blogger, like him.
Hugh Hewitt may be what the Wall Street Journal has called him--"the unofficial historian of the blogging movement." But for sure he's its lead evangelist. "You have to read this book very quickly," he writes. Quickly, so you can go online.
--Terry Eastland
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Read an overview of the blogosphere from World Magazine