Link Roundup

Well, after a week-long hiatus, there are more stories worth covering than I can shake a digital stick at. Rather than spending three weeks touching on major points individually (thus taking so long that you won't care any longer), I'm just going to do a link roundup and let you look at what you care about most. Take a deep breath...here we go...!

On the home front:

• Senator Ted Kennedy hospitalized.
  
• Arizona rules against school choice.
  
• Treasury Secretary 'upbeat' on economy and markets, not housing.
  
• Some problems with the recently passed farm bill.
• Religious Americans give 40% of all foreign aid.
  
• Why the Left's war on Wal-Mart is self-defeating.
  
• Al Gore gets rich off 'green' tech, MSM remains silent.
• Cutting through the melodrama to see the supply-and-demand of housing.
  
• Ground zero in battle of homosexuality in schools?
  
• Solving the (political) energy crisis.
• Stay at home moms could be worth $117,000 per year!
• Does your health care plan fund abortions?
  

Election news:

• Edwards endorses Obama.
  
• Why an Obama/Edwards ticket would be a mistake.
  
• GOP sees major problems with November election.
  
• Dem election tactics.
  
• Hillary destroys Obama in West Virginia.
• Obama's new pastor worse than Wright.
• Bush slams generic 'appeasers' from WWII, Obama flips out.
  
• Obama says Bush and McCain are 'fear-mongering' about his foreign policy.
  

Around the world:

• Bush renews calls for Middle East peace.
  
• Massive earthquake in China, over 30,000 dead.
  
• Chinese flee from overflowing rivers and lakes.
  
• Chavez secures more power by nationalizing private companies.
  
• Myanmar still refusing aid, cyclone death toll approaches 80,000.
  
• Polar bear made a 'threatened' species.
  
• Hezbollah trying to cause civil war in Lebanon.

Whew! Have a great week!