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The savior of the blogwatch race…

After Abortion: Dem leader who won’t scrape and grovel to abortion lobby? Can it be? Maybe it can! …And more here.

EDITED TO ADD: Church of the Masses: Isolation and community in the artist’s life. The expected brilliance from La Barbara.

Jane Galt: Yet more praise for Jason DeParle’s American Dream; welfare and the problem of realistic hope.

Motime Like the Present: Nice, nice post on Daredevil and his alter-alter-ego (why have just one?). Plus this: “The King’s world is at right-angles to the stars; Ditko’s art–even when it goes psychedelic (or didactic!)–is fleshier and more humanistic than most humans can bear to look at; and Colan’s figures are passionate waxworks that melt instead of move.” Plus he argues that there’s no such thing as subtext, and I’m trying hard to figure out whether agreeing means I’ve either erased the author or posited a Secret Self.

Oxblog: Iraq, the Philippines, and democracy promotion in the interest of mission success. And follow-up with responses to criticism. …And, on not so much a different plane as a different planet, Boola Boola!!!!

Unqualified Offerings: Insurance: Why the suckage? Very good stuff with promises of follow-up. UO wins coveted Best Insuranceblogger I Read title. “Insurance classic is about the pooling of risk. Contemporary health insurance is that, but it’s also the pooling of certainties.” (more)

The Corner: The U.N., Afghanistan, and the Drug War: Hi there, I’m a recipe for a cluster…unpleasantness.

The Yale Free Press blog has been jumping lately, with a punchy atheist on the nature of charity; FairTaxery; international law; and much more.