US economy in fastest growth rate for six years

...and ignore the lip service.

Loved the Deficit Peacocks editorial by Krugman.

March of the Peacocks by Paul Krugman, New York Times, January 28, 2010.

Last week, the Center for American Progress, a think tank with close ties to the Obama administration, published an acerbic essay about the difference between true deficit hawks and showy “deficit peacocks.”

You can identify deficit peacocks, readers were told, by the way they pretend that our budget problems can be solved with gimmicks like a temporary freeze in nondefense discretionary spending.

One week later, in the State of the Union address, President Obama proposed a temporary freeze in nondefense discretionary spending.

Tony Blair is pontificating about the Iraq war today. Glenn Greenwald is apoplectic as a result. If you get a chance, check out his most recent editorial.

Remember the illegal destruction of Iraq?
By Glenn Greenwald, Salon, January 29, 2010

The invasion of Iraq was unquestionably one of the greatest crimes of the last several decades. Imagine what future historians will say about it -- a nakedly aggressive war launched under the falsest of pretenses, in brazen violation of every relevant precept of law, which destroyed an entire country, killed huge numbers of innocent people, and devastated the entire population. Have we even remotely treated it as what it is? We're willing to concede it was a "mistake" -- a good-natured and completely understandable lapse of judgment -- but only the shrill and unhinged among us call it a crime.

Much more...check it out.