Wal-Mart, subsidies, the free market and the State

Sorry, very old this, but the winner of our Totally Unofficial World Cup Competition is Planeshift, who blogs here. Nobody scored a point after the final update I gave here, so in the event of a tie I say who wins. On balance, I reckon awarding the prize to the non-Sharpener is most likely to see us ducking complaints to Ofcrapcomp, or whatever body is supposed to be regulating these matters.

So, Planeshift, I’m emailing you *now*. Prepare to be dazzled by our munificence.

Civilians and Soldiers
…and cross-border kidnappings

Lieberman falls farther behind in Connecticut race
Paying the price of Bushlovin’

Stars, Stripes, and Ramblings
Blair in America

Goalkeeping And Killing Arabs
Via the demise of the British Liberal Party

We’re all chetniks now
The curious case of contrarian General Mackenzie

UK and California strike climate change deal

Shots heard round the world
The Israel-China-Iran arms round-robin

Free of the need to be free
CiF: the truth? You can’t *handle* the truth