The Chill of an Early Fall

Can’t Get Enough
The Senate primary in Delaware on Tuesday was prompting anxiety among party officials, who feared that a victory by Christine O’Donnell, a candidate backed by the Tea Party, could complicate Republican efforts to win control of the Senate. Republican leaders rushed to the aid of Representative Michael N. Castle, a moderate lawmaker and former governor, as internal party warfare — including accusations of a death threat — intensified on the eve of the primary. (NYT, 9/14/10)

Don’t know about you, but we can’t get enough of these articles describing the turmoil in the Republican Party. They are just transparent attempts to deflect attention from the debacle that Democrats face in November. What is going on in the Republican Party seems to RedStateVT to be a purging of those who have acted more like Democrats. And of course, those who have acted like Democrats are described as moderate Republicans!

Viva Fidel!
In perhaps the clearest sign yet that economic change is gathering pace in Cuba, the government plans to lay off more than half a million people from the public sector in the expectation that they will move into private businesses, Cuba’s labor federation said Monday.

Over the past several months, President Raul Castro has given stern warnings that Cuba’s economy needs a radical overhaul, beginning with its workers. With as many as one million excess employees on the state payroll, Mr. Castro has said, the government is supporting a bloated bureaucracy that has sapped motivation and long sheltered a huge swath of the nation’s workers. (NYT, 9/14/10)

RedStateVT is not yet ready to apologize to Sean Penn, but at last, the brothers Castro may have finally gotten something right. President Obama: take note!

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Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, delivered a fiery address on Monday accusing the United States government of orchestrating desecrations of the Koran by right-wing American Christian groups last weekend, Iranian state news agencies reported.
(NYT, 9/13/10)

The jihadists are livid at the U.S. What else is new? No wonder that Michelle Malkin calls Islam, the Religion of Perpetual Outrage.