A video and some articles for clicking through if work is slow, or if you find yourself belangoured on the weekend.

• On Pajamas TV, FotG David Frum continues his argument for the GOP’s forming “new majority” by presenting itself differently and picking up some more detailed policies in health care and environmentalist. It’s a challenging topic, and David’s answers may not be congenial to the conservative core of the party, but it’s a necessary exercise, thinking about which ones he’s right and about which ones he’s wrong wrong about rather than merely something one doesn’t want to hear.
• Asia: not the coming global hegemon you may have heard it will be.
• The Ford Foundation falls on hard times. Wipe away your tears (of laughter).
• Thinking about ‘hiking the Appalachian trail?’ Please, think again.
• Revolutions devour their children—Iran’s is no exception.
• Lying his way to socialized medicine.
• And on an upbeat conclusion, the neatest obit I’ve read this side of the pond in years. What a literally marvelous life. (Via the Anchoress.)

Confucius, Œc. Vol.

Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu.